He sounded calm, but Melanie had worked for him for years, and she could sense from his tone that he was unhappy.

Melanie had no idea why Eugene would be in a bad mood. She pressed her lips and did not reply.

Her reaction only made Eugene respond more sarcastically to her. His eyes narrowed, and his tone was cold. “Miss Smith, you’re at work right now. It’s not appropriate for you to be flirting with men during working hours.

Melanie looked up at him and saw Eugene’s eyes. She saw the annoyed look on his face very clearly.

She cleared her throat and explained with difficulty. “It’s a friend.”

Eugene ridiculed her. “I see you have quite a lot of friends. Which one is this?”

The ‘friend‘ he was talking about was different from the kind of friend Melanie meant.

Melanie looked upset. She could tolerate Eugene’s insults, but she could not allow Xander to be implicated without reason.

She calmed herself down and berated Eugene with slight anger, “Please stop thinking such inappropriate thoughts. Aren’t I allowed to have my own friends?”

Eugene’s face fell as he stared at Melanie.

despite his age. Now that he

could not help trembling when he stared at her. She was about to say something when Evelyn

branch office for a meeting, Mr. Scott?

aback as she looked up

away from her and

walked a few steps before she stopped and turned around. She looked Melanie up and down. “If you don’t want to come along with Eugene, you can stop coming along

else, but she left after saying this

were finally gone that Melanie finally let the exhaustion

have been waiting for Evelyn to get to the meeting. Melanie frowned. She

Melanie was reminded of

Chapter 90

eyes. “I’m sorry that you got implicated just now.” Eugene’s words were horrible, and it was only normal for Xander to get angry

thoughtful look and said, “I must have caused you

has nothing to do with you.” Melanie shook her head. She knew very well that Eugene would still find fault with her even if Xander

in the mood to discuss Eugene with Xander, so she asked,

out some work samples there. I need an extra eye to look at

was a little curious. “Stephen

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