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.

into my room. Yet, before I could do anything, the man suddenly looked

a smile and greeted, “Hi, Mr. Fuller. What a

“We live next door. It’s not a

is really a conversation

smile, I said, “Well, I’ll leave you then. I’m going

think you can hide from me forever?” he asked in

and denied, “You’re thinking too much. I’m not hiding from you, and I

project will kick off tomorrow. I’m afraid it will be a mess since Linda doesn’t know much about the details of the

projects. I think she does better than me when it comes to paying attention to the details. Mr.

lot of the flaws of the Murphy

Village tomorrow. Mr. Fuller, don’t you worry.

was deep

myself to stay away from him, or I would

She was gabbling in a panic over the phone, “Scarlett, are you feeling better today? Could

and I had a bad feeling about it. “Sure. But

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 still investigating it. Anyway,

left yesterday, and I even reminded the security guards to keep an eye on them. I never thought something like this could

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