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.

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

She was about to say something when Evelyn came over to

we going back to the branch office for a meeting, Mr. Scott? Why are you

taken aback as she looked up

away from her and was walking

hardly walked a few steps before she stopped and turned around. She looked Melanie up and

else, but she left after saying this

of them were finally gone that Melanie finally let

suddenly realized that Eugene must have been waiting for Evelyn to get

reminded of how

Chapter 90

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

and said, “I must have caused you trouble by suddenly

well that Eugene would

discuss Eugene with Xander, so she

“I’m testing out some work samples there. I need an

curious. “Stephen said you had a team working

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