Chapter 196

“Huh?” The worry was evident in her dance troupe colleague’s eyes as they glanced at Sherilyn. “You okay, Sherilyn? You’re looking pale.”

“Pale?” Sherilyn touched her face, puzzled.

“Yeah,” her colleague teased with a nudge, “pale as a ghost, almost like you’ve seen one.”

A ghost? Sherilyn forced a smile. Indeed, hearing those words from Gilbert was pretty much like an encounter of the spectral kind.

Meanwhile, Gilbert, phone in hand, chuckled, muttering, “She hung up on me…” But he couldn’t be mad and couldn’t afford to be. He put the phone down and carried on with his work. He had plans to visit Francis in the evening and wanted to take Sherilyn along. He needed to wrap things up before that.

Passing the secretary’s office, he noticed them enjoying their tea break.

Gilbert walked past, then doubled back, stopping at one young secretary’s desk.

“Mr. Johnson,” the secretary stuttered, hastily wiping her mouth and standing

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“Hmm.” Gilbert smiled at her.

Instantly, all eyes in the secretary’s office were on her. Gilbert had smiled at her! What was going on? Could it be Gilbert had taken a liking to the young secretary?

The thought even crossed the secretary’s mind, her cheeks flushing excitedly. Young and wealthy, Gilbert was the secret crush of many in the company. Could she be that lucky? What is…”

words shattered her daydream. He pointed to a brown paper package

The secretary pulled a small round object from the package,

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candy apple coated in

asked again, “Nice,

she nodded vigorously, “Would you like to

you buy it? Get me a pack, no,

pack seemed to contain

The secretary was stunned. Mr. Johnson came over to ask her to buy

an eyebrow. “Is that a

no!” The secretary hurriedly responded, “I’ll buy them for

dream was dashed, the idea of the CEO craving

The secretary was still a bit excited, grabbing her phone. “How should I get the money from

going to add her

money.” Gilbert realized, pointing at Charles

Mr. Charles.”

Gilbert

left a message. “After the meeting, come to

bit. After all that, she ended up with

to

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