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.

him, in an instinct, I wanted to get back into my room. Yet, before I could do anything, the man

choice, I forced a smile and greeted,

“We live next

is really

I’ll leave you

you can hide from me forever?” he

lips, feeling a little awkward. I then turned around to face him and denied, “You’re thinking

to be in charge of most of the projects of Lavelian Village. Also, the Fuller Corporation’s project will kick

Linda has always been in charge of the projects. I think she does better than me when it comes to paying attention to the details. Mr. Fuller, there is no

lot of the flaws of the Murphy Corporation.

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

was deep with unfathomable

from him, or I would lose myself to him

over the phone, “Scarlett, are you feeling better today? Could you please come

slightly bewildered, and I had a bad feeling about it. “Sure.

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

instruments before I left yesterday, and I even reminded the security

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