This time, the “overtime” lasted until late into the night.

Lina struggled to get up from the couch, picked up her scattered clothes from the floor, and felt sore all over her body.

“Let me help you.”

Zuko wrapped his arms around her from behind with a satisfied smile. Lina felt his warm chest and his heart beating right along hers against her bare back.

She did not dare to let him help her. She quickly broke free and put on her clothes.

Zuko smiled and got dressed as well. His hand instinctively reached into his pocket, but… there were no more cigarettes.

He finally understood now what his father meant by the “cigarette money” he used to earn.

Lina forced herself to finish reviewing the last bit of information, and then Zuko took her home.

The next day.

They slept until almost 8:00 a.m., only to be awakened by their phones.

“Is it your phone?”

“It’s yours…”

“Hmm?”

They woke up, realizing that their phones were vibrating simultaneously.

“Ms. Thompson,

from Zuko’s assistant. “Mr. Hamerton, um… Uh, there seems to be a problem with the

awake and opened their phones with numerous news headlines popping on the

company had suddenly appeared out of the blue and held

even the materials and publicity copies, were exactly the same as the project Lina was

“W-What’s going on?”

were already there. Some

with mixed feelings.

Thompson, we trusted you

did our

put a lot of money and effort into this project. We wanted to win a big architecture

losing all that money.

stayed quiet, her calm face making it seem like

help. She was just one person against many. Fighting would

was in charge. She had

was quiet. Everyone

all of

up with

was filled with seasoned veterans of the business world. However, not a single one of them uttered another word. It was as

“I won’t shirk my responsibility regarding this, but it will take time to find out who leaked the confidential information. At present, the most important thing for

me. I’ll come up with a solution

you can’t come up with a solution, does that mean we’ll all be left

voice suddenly

and Zuko walked

Hamerton men naturally carried an air of nobility. In the conference room, everyone gazed at him, cautious

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