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.

dark look in his eyes, realizing that he

about his work and couldn’t

moments, her eyes lit up, and she said, “Just

her in confusion, wondering why she always seemed so

tray. Apart from two glasses, there were two odd- looking ornaments

at the ornaments.

Synder, pick one.”

he

Aurelia

fell silent and wondered if she had lost her mind to the point of eating ornaments.

pick. It’s a

examined the ornaments before him. There was a bear

given much of an option, he randomly chose

“Watch closely. I’ll perform a

was a tinkling sound, and a bear–shaped ice cube dropped into the cup, instantly coating the cup

for a five dollar magic

Aurelia chuckled.

long hair and revealed her delicate features

realized he was rude for staring

out the ornaments were actually

the rabbit–shaped ice cube into her own cup

the cola. I was afraid

glanced at

bottle of cola?”

and she

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