Chapter 234

Marcus asked, “Aren’t you home yet?”

He wasn’t happy and Comelia was a bit on edge, worried that her upcoming holiday might go up in smoke. She wasn’t sure if it was because she hadn’t replied to Jeremy’s WhatsApp, which might have made him worry about her safety

She replied, “I’m already home What’s up?”

There was a pause on the other end, then Marcus voice came back Thave some personal stuff to deal with in the next few days. You guys can take a break”

“You already told me that” The midnight call to tell her about the holiday hinted that the boss was excited about a date with his lady

Marcus seemed puzzled “Did 17”

“Sorry, I must have remembered wrong” Cornelia responded, reasoning that the boss couldn’t have forgotten, so it must have been her “Well, good night, President Hartley!”

She said goodnight and waited for him to hang up He didn’t, and she felt awkward hanging up first “Is there anything else, President Hartley?”

Marcus said her name again in his deep, captivating voice. “Cornelia”

Why did he and Jeremy like to call her name but say nothing else? Was it a guy thing to seem mysterious? “Yes?”

“Nothing get some rest early” He finally hung up

After putting down her work phone, she remembered her own. She opened WhatsApp and saw a few unread messages from Jeremy

“Are you home yet?”

“Why arent you replying?”

to

he seemed anxious.

dinner tonight I just got home and took a shower, I didn’t see your messages”

Jeremy responded. “Hmm”

Hmm?

messages urging her to reply, and when she did, all he said

asked, “Don’t you have

make

casual remark meant the world to Cornelia

Abby about the incident that night. She had been dealing with the fear it brought all alone, and only he had been consistently concerned

Jeremy.

night Im not afraid anymore, and you don’t need to worry” She typed a lot, then thought, He’s her

ended up replying with two

responded, “What

out. Cornelia didn’t want to revisit that night,

you don’t need to be so formal with me. You can trust Trent Brown, his interior design skills are pretty decent. You can tell him any ideas you have. You

when you’re completely satisfied. Our goal is to make the actual result match the design as closely

renovation, but she understood that the actual result could never perfectly match the design. “If I’m really that strict, will I

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not doing this for free, you’re paying him, youre the client. Don’t worry

sense “I got

“Comelia” Jeremy said

just as always Cornelia pouted, “Stop just saying my name without adding anything

know how to start, so in the end,

by ‘it’s cool‘? Can’t he just bring up

like the back of her hand, but she was still clueless about his, just like when they first met, not even

recently,”

that busy he wouldn’t have had the time to let her comfortably handle the

when you’re going back to Riverton Cornelia asked. “My boss is going

was being pretty

make it back to Riverton these days, she’d have time to meet up with

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