No More Waiting, She Chooses Love

Chapter 111



I obediently froze in place but ended up clutching Ernest even tighter.

Thump, thump...

The powerful heartbeat echoed in my ears, and that's when I realized I was laying against his chest.

At that moment, fear was the last thing on my mind.

And so, I held him tighter because it seemed like the only way to reassure myself that it wasn't me moving, but the elevator.

After a while, when the shaking stopped, I somehow forgot to let go until his voice broke the silence, "Got a new colleague, have we?"

I blinked, moving away to look down, and was genuinely taken aback.

Apart from being startled, a wave of irritation surged within me, and I impulsively pressed the button to descend the elevator.

on the ground, Haley greeted me with her

from pleasant as I

that I lacked manners, but her being pregnant

checks pending. If anything were

all, she was carrying an

response left me dumbfounded. "I'm

ears.

the safety inspections here needed my oversight." Haley responded, and her words nearly made my

"Has Conrad lost his mind,

My outburst drew everyone's

Haley wasn't alone; she had come with the project manager, along with Deborah and

by that, Ms. Hudson?" Haley asked, her face turning sour but

a pregnant woman to be

only answering at

sending Haley here?" I asked

no