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.

seeing him, in an instinct, I wanted to get back into my room. Yet, before I could do anything, the man suddenly looked up at me.

I forced a smile and greeted, “Hi, Mr.

darkened. “We live next door. It’s

is really a

perfunctory smile, I said, “Well, I’ll leave

you can hide from me forever?” he

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

in charge of most of the projects of Lavelian Village. Also, the Fuller Corporation’s project will kick off tomorrow. I’m afraid it will be a mess since Linda doesn’t know much

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

might know a lot of the flaws of the Murphy Corporation. Yet, she’s too familiar with the company, and that’s the very reason that she might

while, I reassured him, “I’ll go to the Lavelian Village tomorrow. Mr. Fuller, don’t

man’s gaze was deep

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

Linda. She was gabbling in a panic over the phone, “Scarlett, are you feeling better today? Could you please come to

a bad feeling

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

and I even reminded the security guards to keep an eye on them. I

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