Aaron nodded. He raised his hand to pat Annie’s shoulder and comfort her. After all, the past few days have been nerve-wracking for her. “Don’t worry, Annie.”

Marcus, Annie’s boyfriend, felt uncomfortable when he saw his immediate boss acting inappropriately toward his girlfriend. Even so, it was difficult for him to express his dissatisfaction directly to his boss.

He approached them and comforted Annie too. “That’s good to know, Annie. It’s great that your uncle and aunt. You have nothing to worry about now.”

Annie looked at Marcus and snapped back to reality. She realized she had been too close to Aaron, so she took a step back and kept her distance from him.

Aaron immediately understood what she was thinking and pursed his lips to smile at her.

Marcus raised his hand and hugged Annie’s shoulders. “Mister Aaron is right. You shouldn’t go in right now, so how about we wait outside? I saw a shop not far from here. Let’s go get something to drink while we wait.”

Annie was not in the mood to drink anything. She shook her head and said, “No thanks. I don’t feel like drinking anything right now.”

helplessly. “Then I’ll wait

hand on Annie’s shoulder and asked softly, “Have you prepared the slides for tomorrow’s

spend the entire night working on it when I

you guarantee you won’t make any mistakes? Are you sure you’ll be able to explain everything clearly to the higher-ups

felt a

should head home if you have work to

still

about me. I’ve made sure that

Annie and was still unwilling to

you have work responsibilities. I’ll take care of her here, so you can go ahead

his spine when he looked at Aaron. Though Aaron was smiling at him, he

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