He asked Mary, “How did Sheila know you spent the night at my place?

“Did she come by?”

“Dr. Jones didn’t come, but she called me last night to ask how you were doing. I said you fell asleep, and she asked if I was still in your house. When I told her that I was, she just told me to look after you and hung up.”

Mary told a small lie.

“Dr. Jones is clever. She definitely guessed that I spent the night here.”

Kent got up from the floor. He said, “I was drunk and didn’t know what I was doing last night, Mary. Besides, we didn’t have sex.

“Even if someone knew you spent the night at my place, they wouldn’t know what we had done. Anyone would know that nothing could’ve happened between us since I was utterly wasted.

“I’ll give you a raise and a one-off compensation, okay?”

He did not want to be forced into marrying Mary just because he got drunk once.

Mary simply stared at him for a while before getting out of bed.

However, she did not leave his house immediately. She exited the b