Chapter 46

Halfway through the conversation, Leanne’s words cut off abruptly as she heard at woman’s voice on the other end of the line asking, “Curtis, want some cherries?”

Curtis pulled the phone slightly away and replied with a dismissive “No thanks.” The woman on the other end seemed to say something else, but Leanne couldn’t make it out. Her head was buzzing with noise.

It wasn’t until Curtis’ voice became clear again on the phone that she was pulled back to reality. “Were you asking me something?”

There were a few seconds of silence.

“It’s nothing,” Leanne said, forcing a casual tone. “We’ll talk when you get back.”

She didn’t wait for Curtis to respond before ending the call.

The chill of late autumn penetrated her sweater, seeping through her bones. Her fingertips were so cold she could hardly feel them. Even hailing a cab on her screen felt clumsily difficult.

Perhaps it was the cold that made her tremble ever so slightly.

A black sedan pulled up in front of her, and Caleb leaned out from the rolled-down. window, “Madam, let me give you a ride back to the hospital.”

Leanne didn’t refuse. There was no sense in making herself suffer more.

the heat was blasting, quickly warming her cheeks, but her bones still

cold.

took half an

to time in the rearview mirror. She was leaning

parked in the hospital’s underground lot and killed the

and was fastening the buttons

find an

buttons and looked up, a complex smile on “Am I prettier, or

most trusted aide, although only titled as the president’s assistant, held a status and compensation equal to a vice president

Chapter 46

Curtis in securing major IPO projects, but this

forehead as he fumbled

more beautiful than

There were not many who could

bordered on self-torment. “Then why

more?”

Caleb was speechless.

“Actually, Mr. Richardson…”

had already opened the car door and stepped out, heading straight for the elevator without looking back. Her slender figure, draped in the

phone earlier

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