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.

an intimidating figure despite his age. Now that he looked upset, he was

was about to say something when Evelyn came over to them with documents in her

branch office

was taken aback as she

turned away from her and was walking

She had hardly 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,

else, but she left after

both of them were finally gone that Melanie finally

suddenly realized that Eugene must have been waiting for Evelyn to get to the meeting. Melanie frowned.

again. Melanie was reminded of how Eugene had insulted Xander for no

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her eyes. “I’m sorry that you got implicated just now.” Eugene’s words

must have caused you trouble

you.” Melanie shook her head. She knew very well that Eugene would still find

not in the mood to discuss Eugene with Xander, so she asked, “Is there anything you

work samples there. I need an extra eye to look

was a little curious. “Stephen said you had a team working

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