Chapter 0144

“Is something wrong?”

Violet was taken aback. Her heart leaped up her throat, and her knees felt weak.

George simply opened the door and invited. “Please, Ms. Violet, take a look Inside.”

The staff had been removed from the scene, and their knowledge of the situation inside was

unclear.

Ignoring their previous disagreements, Violet crept into the room, finding it unnervingly silent, not the gruesome sight she had braced for.

Where could Lucius be? She searched anxiously, cursing the careless butler in her mind for not

watching over Lucius properly.

At last, she spotted Lucius on the bed, lying in a relaxed position, eyes shut.

The dim light softened his features, giving him a princely appearance. However, it was tinged with

a sense of solitude.

He opened his eyes when he heard a noise.

“Why… are you sleeping already?” she asked quietly.

Lucius opened his eyes lazily and simply said, “I’m hungry.”

Violet could not understand his logic about the relationship between hunger and sleep.

“I want to eat something you’ve made,” he said pitifully, a far cry from his usual arrogance and something more akin to a child being abandoned.

“I’ll cook for you,” she conceded, reminded of the enormous debt she owed him.

As she headed to the kitchen, Lucius called out, “Why are you cooking for me?”

Violet chose not to answer directly.

Persisting, Lucius asked, “Is it out of fear? Or pity?”

money. Ten billion is not a trivial sum. Even a lifetime of

vanished, his body tensing in the low light,

to

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speechless. Lucius had asked for her cooking,

head in uncertainty. “Tell me

you.”

Lucius turned away, lying down and ignoring

you serious about me leaving?” she asked, feeling

as he had earlier that day,

same.

silent and went on to treat

only lead to further humiliation, Violet silently exited the room. She had come back to him to be rejected again, now feeling utterly

her tears, she convinced herself it

and asked in

“He asked me to leave,

walk away, leaving George, who seemed to want

maintained her swift pace, swiftly making her way

to let any more news about him affect her, she refused to be

by him again.

to have vanished from her life since that

floor, and her phone had gone

abrupt disappearance was like a thorn in Violet’s heart, causing

devoting herself to

weeks passed, Violet’s dedication to overtime led to significant progress in her work. positioning her as an emerging key player in

making no headway

her wealthy family background enabled her to cover up certain mistakes and avoid being dismissed.

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the other hand,

mess! Haven’t your learned anything about file organization during your

brain?”

helplessly with

no idea Emily

please review them?”

noticing Emily’s distressed

away and

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