Luke originally wanted the stylist to give her a more glamorous look, but after listening to her opinion, he went with her idea.

She looked pretty even with a simple look.

Luca felt his eyes on her, and she started breathing faster.

“Mr. Crawford, the ceremony is about to begin," Luca reminded softly. If they stayed in here any longer, people would start to misunderstand.

Mo knew that she was inside.

With a guy and a girl were alone in a lounge, it would be hard for other people to not overthink.

"What did you just call me?" Luke narrowed his eyes to show dissatisfaction. Was she using this alienating title on purpose to keep her distance from him?

"This is a public setting, and the people from Watson Biopharmaceuticals are inside." Luca knew that calling him that would upset him, so she had to explain.

"Uh-huh." Luke was still unhappy.

What did those people have to do with him?

She was his beloved wife.

"Luke..." Seeing his expression, Luca had no choice but to compromise and call his name.

The knit in Luke's brows loosened up, and he showed a little smile. If someone saw her face right now, they would have thought that Luke was bullying her.

How could he ever bully her?

He just did not like Luca being all timid and cowardly.

She was supposed to be the woman next to him. The confidence and aura she worked so hard to build up in the past should not be dimmed down by such cowardice.

"Is there a reason why you called me in here?" Luca asked.

wanted to see what the stylist had done for you," said Luke. Although he could see it outside, there were too many people, and he did not want to be distracted by others when he was focusing on

lounge and asked Mo to

could've just looked at me outside." Luca did not understand why

clearly." Luke held her hand

out, then." Luca blushed at his compliment and withdrew her hand before walking

with Luke at the same time. Otherwise, it would

shake his head as he watched Luca push open

all these years, she was still the same girl back in high school who

returned to

started surrounding her again. Mo said, "Everyone, please return to your seats. The ceremony is about to

all stopped and went back to

as her

she heard Dr. Jackson

five minutes," said Mo after glancing at

well, then. Ms. Stone, please tell the hotel manager to get ready to serve the food," said Dr. Jackson. Although

was the most

the ceremony was about to start before going to find

told Marcos that he had to attend a ceremony. Then, he kept his phone away before leaving the

became the focus of everyone

"Good evening, Mr. Crawford."

"Hello, Mr. Crawford."

he went, there was an endless stream

and walked to Luca's table. Then, he asked her, "Dr. Craw,

the seat next to her was indeed vacant, and it would not be nice of her to lie with so many people watching, so she bit the bullet

then," said Luke while completely ignoring the table full of

all the stunned research professors and said, "Professors, you've worked hard. I hope

right. We'll work even harder." Dr. Linwood was not expecting Luke to sit at their table. He glanced at Luca and wondered if there

he feel that both of them had a lot of history between

he met Luke's gaze, which seemed like a

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