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.

from Lina’s secretary. “Ms. Thompson,

there seems to be a problem with the

with numerous news headlines popping on

had suddenly appeared out of the blue and held a press conference, releasing

the materials and publicity copies, were exactly

“W-What’s going on?”

board members were already there. Some were

at Lina with mixed feelings.

Thompson, we trusted

our secrets get

lot of money and effort into this

losing all that money. Ms. Thompson,

arguing. She stayed quiet, her calm face making it seem

just one person against many. Fighting would make things

it wasn’t her fault, she was

was quiet. Everyone looked at

all of

got up with a

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

determined gaze swept over each person’s face. “I won’t shirk my responsibility regarding this, but it will take time to find out who leaked the confidential information. At

trust me. I’ll come up with a solution

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

powerful voice suddenly sounded from outside the meeting

and Zuko

In the conference room, everyone gazed at

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