On their way to Lucy's company, Charlie kept giving Matthew weird looks.

Matthew's skin crawled under his gaze, and he finally blurted out, "What's with you? Why do you keep staring at me like that?"

Charlie sighed. "I never thought you'd let your wife work, Matthew. I figured you'd spoil her rotten and keep her all to yourself at home every day." Matthew shot Charlie a frosty glance. "Spoiling her is one thing, but trapping her is another. You're a lawyer. Shouldn't you know better?"

Charlie cleared his throat, now even more curious about Matthew's wife. What kind of amazing person could have such a hold on Matthew? They soon arrived at the entrance of Lucy's company. The receptionist, who knew Matthew well, quickly made a call.

"Ms. Lucy, Mr. Leon is here."

After a brief chat, she directed Matthew to the private elevator that led straight to Lucy's office.

Matthew pushed open the office door and froze. The desk was buried under a mountain of paperwork. What in the world? How could there be so many documents? He worried if his wife kept this up, she might just work herself to the bone.

his comment, knowing it would only land him in hot

sound of the door and gave a small start

curiously moving to the man next to him. "And

She was quite pretty, with a fresh and elegant air about her. There was a barely noticeable air of power to her. He had

Lucy asked who he was, Charlie instinctively smoothed out his clothes and introduced himself with a

asked to come and help

he

playfully thumped Charlie on the

is Charlie, my lifelong buddy. I brought him here to give you a

on his head, Charlie shot Matthew a look of

watched the two of them with a look that said she could not quite put her feelings into words. She had long known that Matthew acted a bit silly around her. She never would have guessed his friend would be just the same! What was it that Matthew had said? Charlie was supposed to be a top lawyer, the best in the world? Lucy's mouth quirked up at the corner. Charlie

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