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.

Alice quickly grabbed the laptop and tried to dry it with a

Hank

is waterproof. Let me

cleaning it, checking every nook and cranny to

wiped the rest of the coffee off his desk. When I turned to Alicia, I found her still fiddling with her

nothing to worry about,

out

But I'm really sorry. Why don't

that

insist any further. She said goodbye to Hank, gave him a shy smile and finally left

watched her standing behind her desk, Hank couldn't help but feel a hint

any further, he

head of

came to work, and his presence was significantly more intimidating

his USB drive and the large white

about to unplug the unit when the screen suddenly came

that fell in the room was deafening and

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

Caden's face darkened ominously.

Hank rushed to shut down the laptop, but the program seemed to have frozen and the device wouldn't turn off. Caden's Adam's apple bobbed once

barked at Hank. “Your laptop

followed was a tense, almost eerie silence, probably caused by the unexpected photo, but no doubt amplified

a storm of

when Caden stood up

"Today's session is admitted."

room,

Hank rushed to open the door

explain?” Caden asked, staring at his hapless

Hank would have rushed to his desk to track down

any efforts to rectify the situation,

back, although he kept his eyes glued to the

"It was Miss Bennett."

in the hallway seemed to drop a few

it was Alice, but

raised his head before he could stop

it was her,

replied, his tone curt. “Because those were my

thirty years of existence, he had only slept with Alicia, and they had just had an intimate encounter in his office that

fun, sexy romp, but dared to take a photo of him when he was at

before she left. She asked me to give them to her to express her apologies. The next thing I remember, she spilled the coffee all over my desk

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