The "doo-doo-doo" connection tone rang out, but the other side didn't pick up.
Then it hung up automatically.
Ethan Laurent frowned slightly, lifted his wrist to check the time again, waited another minute, still didn't see her appear, and placed another call to her.
Strictly speaking, this wasn't his second call.
He'd already tried several times earlier when he was looking for her, but the calls had never gone through.
Ethan's expression went cold as he was about to sit down, and his gaze just happened to sweep over to where Aiden Lennox was sitting not far away.
The Laurent Family and the Lennox Family could actually be considered friends; both were powerful clans in Central City, one dominating the business world, the other in the political arena. They didn't interact so frequently as to be inseparable, but their paths crossed quite a lot.
For every one of Rousseau's launch events, the Lennox Family always had someone invited, and this time it was Aiden.
