Chapter 324

Aurelia walked outside and met Leslie’s gaze, her mind wandering off again to the emergency contact he set up.

“Why haven’t you slept?” she asked.

Leslie noticed her nose wrinkling at the smell of cigarettes and put the cigarette out.

“I couldn’t sleep. What about you?”

“Um… No reason. I just saw a piece of news that made me quite emotional.”

She couldn’t bring herself to ask him about the emergency contact, fearing that she may be overthinking.

“What news?”

“It’s about the accident on the bridge. It’s nothing big.”

Not wanting to let it slip, Aurelia changed the subject.

“Are you worried about work?”

“I suppose so.”

Leslie didn’t tell the truth.

Daniel had just called him to say that the big shot in the Synder family wanted to meet

him. It had been over a decade since they last met, and Leslie felt nervous.

met the dark look in his eyes, realizing that he seemed frustrated.

know much about his work and couldn’t be of much

her eyes lit up, and she said, “Just wait.

confusion, wondering why she always seemed so

over with a tray. Apart from two glasses, there were two odd- looking

pointed at

Synder, pick one.”

for?” he

eat,” Aurelia

if she had lost her mind to the point of eating ornaments.

It’s a

examined the ornaments before him. There was

much of an option, he randomly

up the bear and said mysteriously, “Watch

sound, and a bear–shaped ice cube dropped into the cup, instantly coating the cup with a layer of mist.

a five dollar magic trick,

Aurelia chuckled.

long hair and revealed

was momentarily stunned, then realized he was rude for staring and shifted his gaze to

turned out the ornaments were

placed the rabbit–shaped ice cube into her own cup and

cola. I was afraid you wouldn’t like having snacks at

glanced at the

one bottle of

and

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