When he didn’t speak, I peeked at him in surprise, but his eyes were hooded and I couldn’t discern any emotion in them.

Unable to help myself, I blurted, “Didn’t you come here to look for Armond? Aren’t you going to talk to him?”

Without sparing a glance at me, his slender fingers moved across the porcelain bowls as he expertly washed the dishes.

“There’s no rush.” He only gave me three simple words in return.

The atmosphere became quiet all of a sudden and I felt slightly at a loss.

Suddenly, a ringtone broke through the uncomfortable silence. It was coming from his phone.

 

He didn’t answer it, but turned his emotionless eyes to me for some reason.

I stiffened and asked confusedly, “What is it?”

 

“My hands are wet. I’ll have to trouble you,” he replied.

At first, I couldn’t grasp his meaning. Later on, I realized that his phone was in his trouser pocket and both his hands were covered with soap.

Coincidently, I had just wiped my hands dry, so technically, it was convenient for me to take his phone. But…

The corners of my eyes twitched as I fell into a dilemma. “Mr. Fuller, I think that’s rather inappropriate.”

He cocked a brow at me. “And why exactly would that be inappropriate?”

into his trouser pocket

yet clear eyes. If I made a big deal out of it, it would seem like I was the

kept playing, as

still frozen in the same posture as he waited for me to answer his phone

trouser pocket. After taking his phone out, I handed

His meaning couldn’t be any clearer—he couldn’t pick up

and swiped to answer the

staring at me with a particularly intense

bringing the phone to his ear. Due to the height difference, I

his eyes to look at me, but didn’t comment. Soon, Rachel’s gentle voice drifted over the

is it?” This man was stingy with his words

seem to mind as she chirped gleefully, “I brought all the previous project files over today for you to take a look. By the way, you haven’t

of him to have a beautiful woman

I vaguely sensed his gaze on me. Puzzled, I returned his gaze, wondering what

thought he wasn’t going to answer, he responded

you come out and open the gate for me,

me a glance, signaling for me to

I hesitated for a second before

bowl in his hand, but he held it in a

together once we’re done here. Rachel is here because of the Lavelian Village project. Since you’re the

tightly in response to his tyrannical behavior. Rachel’s obviously not here to discuss

fact that Rachel was currently waiting outside. After he was done, he scanned me from head to toe at a disturbingly languid pace before asking, “Do you need to have

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