My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

After the two of them finished talking, Bruce walked out with his pipe in his mouth.

As soon as he left, there was only Zoel and I in the office.

"This table is yours from now on," he said, pointing to the empty table next to him.

I looked at the table and then looked at him, feeling a little strange.

Two of us, face to face?

"I think I shouldn't, Mr. Parker." I tried to be natural and graceful. "I am a newcomer, and yet I am enjoying so many privileges. My colleagues might gossip about me."

Zoel stared at me for two seconds as if he was thinking. After a while, he said again, "So do you think you are as ordinary as those people outside? Why did I make all those concessions to recruit you, then?" This made my face hot, and my throat felt stuck, and I couldn't say a word.

attention to my embarrassment. He turned and took a document from the table and handed it over. "This is the divorce case file of Sᴇaʀᴄh thᴇ

as soon as possible. We will accompany Mr. Skinner to court in the next two

did he get married?" I opened the folder and took a look at it. "There are actually three

me. After I said that, I could feel Zoel look at me strangely. At that moment, I wished to find a hole to hide in. However, all I could do was to quietly accept the documents and go back to my seat to read

early to see my children, Zoel came in with a pile of

embarrassed.

he broke the silence. "Are you getting off

to

internship, I stayed until six o'clock in the evening on the second day. Miss Reid, I hope

to be pissed off. After that, he took the documents back to his desk, and the temperature in the room instantly dropped

would have thought that I was thirty years old, and was lectured bluntly by a man younger than