"I'm gonna head out. You two have fun. Bye, Lucy," Chelsea said. She then turned and walked away.

Matthew beamed at Lucy.

Feeling his gaze, Lucy bashfully looked down.

"Matthew... Maybe we should head home..." she murmured.

Seeing her like this, Matthew's smile grew even wider.

...

Once home, Lucy dove into her design work with her usual passion. She was a designer, and she could not slack off like before. Suddenly, Lucy's phone buzzed.

It was a notification from Hudson. Lucy was over the moon, quickly accepted it, and started jumping around with joy. Matthew walked in just in time to see her giggling to herself.

He strode over, grabbed the phone from her hands, and saw the name-Hudson. Another message popped up: [Hi Lucy.]

At that moment, Matthew's mood turned sour, his face clouding over with a frown.

finally noticed something was off with

what's the matter?" Lucy was puzzled by Matthew's odd

looked at Lucy with a frown and asked, "Is it really

when Lucy understood

my draft gets approved, I'll have to start working at the

stormy at her words, almost as if

can't you just work from

hobby I love..." Lucy's voice was tinged with a hint of sadness. Matthew hated to hear her sound so downhearted, so

his agreement, she quickly hugged

"Thank you, Matthew."

not know what to say, so he just hugged her

phone pinged with

to come in for a chat at the office

was not thrilled, but he nodded his consent

...

the next day, Matthew headed off to the

the sound of the alarm,

found breakfast waiting on the table, along with a note from Matthew: [Lucy, have breakfast before you

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