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 up at me. He then put his

I forced a smile and

darkened. “We live next door.

man is really a conversation

I’ll leave you then. I’m

think you can hide from me

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

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

been in charge of the projects. I think she does better than me when it comes to paying attention

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

reassured him, “I’ll go to the Lavelian Village tomorrow. Mr. Fuller, don’t you worry. Since we have taken over this project, we’ll

man’s gaze was

myself to stay away from him, or I

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

was slightly bewildered, and I had a bad feeling

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 still investigating it. Anyway, I’ve contacted Mr. Fuller, and he will send

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

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