Chapter 225
Ethan’s gaze made Olivia’s skin crawl. She coughed lightly. “I saw a janitor in your office yesterday.”
He thought she was going to say something fluttering, but she mentioned an outsider.
“Olivia Fordham, are you suspecting that I’m having an affair with a janitor?” Fury seeped into his voice.
“What are you thinking about? I’m just curious why someone is cleaning your office during office hours. It’s an important place.”
He replied without much thought. “Stephanie lives far from here, so she clocks off early. She cleans my office early at times when I’m working.
“What’s the matter? You don’t care about Marina, but now you care about a janitor?”
“Since when did Miller Group provide such good employee welfare?”
Ethan was cutting his steak into pieces as he answered indifferently, “Stephanie is different. She saved my life before. It won’t hurt to provide her some perks.”
“When? How come I didn’t know about it?” Olivia put her cutleries down.
“Are you worried about me?” A smile adorned across his lips.
He continued, “It happened a few years ago. Someone had a death wish and ambushed me at the underground parking lot.
run into me with a car, but Stephanie saved me by pushing me out of
enough to dodge that,
distracted
“Why?”
at her face. “It was your birthday. I ordered a cake
he was doting
her birthday, she kept whining about wanting a custom-made
made with expensive ingredients, hence
literally works of
Cake, but one of the swan’s heads flopped on the cake when he brought
to her.
over it. She simply felt like it was an
it. A few days later, she received a Swan Castle
Northern Bakeshop a week to make
was touched by the two crystal swans,
it turned out that he almost
worried that she would be disappointed about the ruined
there was a chance for the bad guy to hurt
sounded unnatural when she asked, “Why
fine ’cause I
on the table
planning to tell me
stopped cutting his steak, as he didn’t foresee such a huge reaction from her. “It’s not that frequent. It happens about ten
no wonder that Ethan would get
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