Chapter 318: 318. Photo on the Frame_1

The photo frame fell right at Elly Campbell’s feet.

Elly instinctively looked down, the back of the frame facing upwards. She couldn’t see the photo inside, but given that a straight-laced man like Adam Jones had it on his office desk, she could figure out with her toes how important the person in the picture must be.

Just as her curiosity peaked, Adam’s speed surpassed hers. He let go of her, picked up the frame, opened a desk drawer without thinking, and tossed it in.

Confronted with Elly’s curious gaze, a shade of guilt flitted across his eyes. He awkwardly avoided her gaze and said,

"It’s Robert Green’s photo, always misplaced."

His eagerness to explain made the excuse sound far-fetched, something he hadn’t taken into consideration.

At that moment, Robert "the old lady’s scapegoat" Green sneezed in the mailroom where he was being punished.

Who? Who’s talking about me?

Elly let her gaze linger meaningfully on Adam’s guilt-ridden face for a few seconds before retracting it with a teasing smile.

seem quite fond

the frame, Adam quietly sighed in relief. He heard the tease in her voice and couldn’t help frowning as he said, "What

someone to place their photo on your office desk,

was particularly ambiguous, "I hadn’t realized President Jones had such

Adam’s guilt, Elly nonchalantly

in the frame wasn’t of Robert. It was just that Adam was too guiltridden, so much so that the excuse he found was

Adam Jones had placed in his office to face all day, if not someone close to his

he feeling guilty about when facing his

laughed to herself, her face betraying nothing as she

let me handle this, or you deal with it yourself, and

in, she looked at Adam with a detached

Elly’s expression,

estrangement appeared once

suppressing the chaos in his heart, and had indeed

any more trouble, but instead, he sat down on the leather couch, his mind

concentrate on the documents from the comfort of the boss’s chair. Yet, she couldn’t focus

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