Genevieve was drifting in and out of consciousness when she heard the phone ring.

Just as she looked in the direction of the ringtone, she felt someone putting the phone in her hand.

“Hello?” the woman answered in a groggy state.

“Genev, the news of Mrs. Wood’s death has started to spread.” The person on the other end of the line was Johanna.

“The reporters are camping outside the company now. Should I go and pick you up?”

“It is all right. I’ll head over there myself in a while.”

“Sure.”

After hanging up, Genevieve glanced at the phone screen, feeling considerably more awake.

It was almost nine a.m..

As she was used to waking up early, it felt strange to her that she had woken up at nine a.m. that day.

really

then, Genevieve suddenly remembered that when she was trying to reach for her phone earlier

that something heavy was

a hand on her waist. She got such

next moment, the hand tightened around her waist,

man’s arms, she could hear his heart thumping steadily as

Dub-lub! Dub-lub!

she heard a man speaking in a hoarse

he already woken

she was not just imagining things, she tried to scramble out of the man’s arms

saw that Armand, who had been unconscious for over a month, was looking at her. Even though it

front of the man’s face and said, “Can you

blinking, Armand replied,

joy which she had felt a moment ago

get

of bed, Armand suddenly lifted his hand and brushed his fingertips

for a long time?”

had used to address her. Pushing the man’s hand away from her face, she continued, “Have some rest while I go get

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