Chapter 11:

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Alicia preferred to turn a deaf ear to Caden's animosity.

He opened the door and walked out without saying another word.

As soon as we left, Hank appeared.

"Mr. Ward, should I take Miss Bennett home?"

Caden's expression was colder than usual.

"That won't be necessary. You might as well use your mouth to find your way home."

Hank blinked, unsure of how to respond to that.

Alice didn't leave immediately. She went downstairs to buy some desserts and a cup of coffee. Then she went to knock on Hank's office door.

“Miss Bennett,” Hank exclaimed in surprise. “Can I help you?”

Alicia placed the sweets and coffee on her desk with a kind smile.

"I'm afraid I'll have to bother you, Mr. Ford. Please pass this on to Mr. Ward."

Hank was visibly surprised.

What shameless cruelty!

What could have been put in the coffee? Drugs?

Bleach? Battery acid? Rat poison?

Or maybe a few bugs?

Hank didn't dare pick up the coffee.

“I’m sorry, Mrs. Bennett,” she said politely, “but Mr. Ward only drinks coffee made from freshly ground beans stored in the company pantry.”

Alice lowered her eyes.

“It's okay. If it's too much trouble, then let's forget about it. “I just wanted to apologize to Caden, that’s all.”

As he pulled his hand away and straightened up, he accidentally knocked over his coffee cup, spilling its contents all over Hank's desk.

laptop and tried to

Hank remained

My laptop is waterproof. Let me take care

kept cleaning it, checking every nook and cranny to make sure everything

desk. When I turned

worry about,

out a

sorry. Why

Bennett, that it is not at

insist any further. She said goodbye to Hank,

Hank couldn't help but feel a hint

it any further,

sat at the head of the long table, ever the picture

serious when he came to work, and

his laptop over to begin the meeting presentation. He plugged in his USB drive and the large white screen flickered for

unplug the unit when the screen suddenly came

was deafening and the air cracked

no charts or graphs, not even a small piece of text. Instead, it showed a

Caden's face darkened ominously.

but the program seemed to have frozen and the device wouldn't turn off. Caden's Adam's apple bobbed once as

the projector,” he barked at Hank. “Your laptop is obviously infected with some kind

disconnect the projector from the screen. What followed was a tense, almost eerie silence, probably caused by the unexpected photo, but no

his face remained expressionless in appearance, a storm of emotions brewed beneath his icy

opened his mouth to speak when Caden stood up and moved in

"Today's session is admitted."

he walked out of the room, with Hank hot

to open the door

asked, staring at his

Hank would have rushed to his desk to track

to rectify the situation, but was also unusually quiet about the

although he kept his eyes glued to the

"It was Miss Bennett."

in the hallway seemed

was Alice, but how

raised his head before he could

you know it

tone curt. “Because those were my crown

Alicia, and they had just had an intimate encounter in his office that very

just blindfolded him for a fun, sexy romp, but dared to take a photo of him

over my desk and was cleaning it off my computer. It

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