The Woman From Hell

Shannon shrugged. Her originally tense expression gradually relaxed after hearing what I said. She was probably relieved since she felt that I had no thoughts about him. She patted me on the shoulder. "Forget it, just leave him alone. Let's go to the hotel."

After floundering about for a day, we finally managed to check in.

Lying on the not-so-soft hotel bed, my mind was filled with the children.

I had requested Marius to help me take the two children out before I left and did not know how the situation was now.

Thinking of this, I took out my cell phone and called Marius, but there was no answer.

Could something have happened?

I was a little worried and dialed a number I had not dialed in a long time.

""Wanda?"

The familiar voice sounded from the phone, carrying a hint of exhaustion. Come to think of it, he probably just got done with work.

I replied lightly, "Hello, I wanted to ask where Marius is. I just gave him a call, but he didn't answer."

Across the phone, Drover was faintly taken aback before he answered, "He left my place about 20 minutes ago. He said he was going to help you with something." Hearing this, I heaved a sigh of relief.

"So, that's the case. Good. That's all, then. Thank you. You're busy, yeah? I won't bother you, then."

It felt like it had been a long time since I last interacted with Drover. We were so obviously awkward now even across the phone.

to hang up, but Drover spoke

call me, I put the phone to my

talk again some other time," he said after quite

wanted to break free from the past this time.

an early rest.

"Good night."

could no longer be friends with Drover, but after this call tonight, the distance between us seemed to be shortened. He was someone I admired. If we could really go back to how we used to

happy emotions allowed me to fall asleep very

morning, Shannon and I grabbed

Ms. Zurich has a new partner. It's a small company.

sure what they do."

handed me the information

researched. "Here, it's this

company."

"New Leaf?"

that I had never heard of

a long time before I found a piece of relevant information. "The founder of New Leaf is Kevin

they know the name when we get to the

brought no money nor profit. All I could think of was that there was some favoritism going

arrived, I asked Shannon to get to know the founder of New Leaf

long time

smiled brightly. "I haven't seen you in a long time, President Lane. I

to take a seat before asking her secretary to pour me a cup of