“You…” I pushed her away then headed straight for my office in the hotel.

Finally, it was afternoon.

There was no more trouble from Joyce since the morning. It could be that she had left work early due to being in a bad mood.

Deep in thought, I didn’t notice Joseph standing at the entrance to my office until I heard the excited screams from my female colleagues.

“Ms. Stovall, may we speak in private?” inquired Joseph.

I felt the prying glances from all around me, so I nodded uneasily. “Sure!”

We left my office and came to a quiet area. “Mr. Campbell, is there anything I can help you with?”

He pressed his lips into a thin line. “Mr. Fuller wishes to see you.”

I instinctively wanted to reject but nodded after some hesitation. “Where is he?”

“The hotel’s parking lot!”

I nodded. “Okay!”

When he saw me walking back towards my office, he continued, “Ms. Stovall, Mr. Fuller is already waiting for you downstairs.”

I turned to look at him silently before saying, “I know. I need to get my purse.”

Baffled by my answer, he acknowledged, “Then I will wait for you here.”

“Fine by me.”

two had worked together for many years, so

office. He let out a relieved sigh. He acted as if I would turn around and leave right

later, we arrived

left open, he immediately turned and left

in the car and saw Ashton was reading a document intently

have to

closed, and focused his

around. However, Ashton managed to find one and

it was pre-booked, once Ashton and I were

passed by so fast, and it was already July. Soon, summer would end in a

silent and placed some food on my plate. He halted once my plate

at me and said, “Try it. These are all

looking at the table. Indeed as he said, all of them used to be my

left J City. So I sat still, staring at him, and said, “Spicy food is bad for health, so

wasn’t able to eat spicy food, so I stopped eating too. I would even skip garlic and ginger

to keep his emotions in check. After a while, he nodded

and asked for all

stop him but felt that it wasn’t necessary, so I stared indifferently

and changed the plates. He continued to

set in a hard line. I stared at the mountain of food on my plate

past, I would

didn’t want to talk much, so I

glass of water in front of me.

lowered my gaze

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