In the end, she really didn't know what to say. Minerva could only shut her mouth and put down her hand in annoyance.
"What happened that day... I'm really sorry. I really got the wrong person. You have to believe me, I certainly didn't covet you. I applied for the job of the assistant secretary because I was simply attracted to your company, so... I want to come here to study."
"Oh." Maddox replied with a cold face, "Do you mean that I am not as attractive as the company?"
She was puzzled.
"No, that's not what I mean. I just..."
For the first time, she was flustered in front of Maddox and didn't know what to say. In a hurry, her delicate eyebrows frowned, and even her clear eyes were full of anxiety.
Maddox smiled when he saw how helpless she was.
Unexpectedly, this strange woman... was quite funny.
No, that wasn't right.
What was he doing?
He quickly came to his senses. He squinted his eyes and sized up the woman in front of him.
Her eyes were clear and her behavior was a little strange. Why should he waste his time with this woman here?
"Give me your hand."
She looked puzzled and asked, "What are you doing?"
He said impatiently, "Why are you wasting so much time talking? Just give me your hand."
she could only stretch out her
Clink...
Only then did she recognize that they were the keys that she had brought. Why were the keys here? Did
had lost her keys, why would Maddox give them to
"You were waiting for me here to return the keys to
"No? Then why were
He sneered at her and said, "I just wanted to see what tricks you have up your sleeves. Now, it seems that not
he had
had just found out that she was a divorced woman and that it was a surrogate
had passed, but Maddox was still Maddox. His original temper had not changed at all, but... it had
Minerva looked at him with emotions
eyes because they were close. He saw her looking at him emotionally and thought that she was
face immediately turned cold, and his
of those false ideas as soon as possible. You've got the keys, so
turned
looking at his back as he left. She slowly lowered her head
a long time, as the heat from his warm palm had
head and
That's great.
temperature...
the Collins family did not
of Minerva's sudden absence for leave shocked everyone in the company. Ever since she replaced Maddox as the vice president of Yardley Corporation, she had been so busy. The company's matters, as well as many of the contracts that had been withdrawn
late even for one day, and she
asked
a bit surprised and guessed what she was going to
done a very good job in keeping things secret, so they didn't let others know that she went abroad. They just said that she had been managing the company's affairs for more than a month in a row, and there was no news about Maddox. Thus, she was exhausted and needed a long time to
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