I took a seat next to her and teased, “Well, I understand. When the two of you are madly in love, it’s hard to suppress the impulse.”

With her face flushed, she gauchely changed the topic, “Where were you and Ashton just now?”

“Next door.”

Nora nodded. As the conversation went along, the awkwardness slowly dispersed. “I heard you calling me just now. Is there anything else?” she asked.

I shook my head. “No.”

Nora muttered a response. Once again, an awkward silence ensued.

 

I supposed the shy Nora needed some time alone, so I stood up and excused myself, “Um… I’ll go upstairs and go through the documents.”

In the room, I read the documents for a while, absent-minded. I couldn’t seem to focus with my mind constantly wandering off.

 

Frustrated, I tossed the documents aside and walked to the balcony to take a break.

The balcony next door was only a wall’s distance away. Ashton was reading on the balcony while enjoying his leisure time.

could do

and greeted, “Hi, Mr.

darkened. “We live next door. It’s not

is really

I’ll leave you then. I’m going back to my

hide from me forever?”

feeling a little awkward. I then turned around to face him and denied, “You’re thinking too much. I’m not hiding from you, and

the Fuller Corporation’s project will kick off tomorrow. I’m afraid it will be a mess since

does better than me when it comes to paying attention to the details. Mr.

eyes over at the pots of plants on the balcony. “Well, she might know a lot of the flaws of

Lavelian Village tomorrow. Mr. Fuller, don’t you worry. Since we have taken over this project, we’ll do

was

again reminded myself to stay away from him, or I would lose

a panic over the phone, “Scarlett, are you feeling better today?

was slightly bewildered, and I had a bad feeling about it. “Sure. But what’s

an AI technology museum in the base. Since the museum is still under construction, we temporarily stored those AI devices and instruments that we got from Fuller Corporation in the Science and Technology Research Base. Mr. Murphy has even instructed the security guards to guard them. Unfortunately, we found out that someone sneaked into the base last night. Some of the AI instruments were stolen. The policemen are

on those AI instruments before I left yesterday, and I even reminded the security guards to

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