"Then... then forget it!"
"Miss Quentin, although Miss Robinson is here as well, the CEO has been busy with work at the company these past few days, and Miss Robinson rarely cos to the office... Let’s do this, I’ll arrange sothing for you this afternoon."
"Is that convenient?"
"Don’t worry, I’ve been by the CEO’s side for many years, he won’t fire , hehe..."
"Thank you, Secretary Cecily."
"It’s nothing, I’ll call you this afternoon."
"Alright."
Lisa Cecily has always been soone who handles things steadily and efficiently. As expected, at two o’clock in the afternoon, Lisa called Rebecca Quentin.
Rebecca took a taxi to Skytop, which took more than forty minutes, so...
When she t Lisa at Skytop, Lisa helplessly inford her, "Miss Quentin, if you had arrived ten minutes earlier it would have been great. The CEO just went to a eting again..."
"There was an accident on the road, so there was a traffic jam all the way."
"It’s okay, this eting will end soon... You can wait for the CEO here."
"Thank you."
Lisa poured a glass of water for Rebecca, and as if seeing the worry in Rebecca’s heart, she comforted her, "Don’t worry, Miss Robinson won’t be coming today, besides, I’ll be keeping watch downstairs."
"Alright."
The awkwardness of eting Alice should be avoided as much as possible!
The office was quiet and peaceful.
Rebecca drank the entire glass of water and sat on the sofa waiting for a long ti. However, every ti she looked at the office door, there was no movent at all.
Waiting always felt long. Out of boredom, she stood up and walked over to his desk.
On the desk were several files he was reviewing. Seeing faint traces of his handwriting on them, she picked one up and took a closer look.
This was an ability assessnt submitted by the director of the T City branch to Howard Geoffrey, requesting to continue their duties in France.
Howard approved the director’s request, signing his na at the end of the docunt.
It seems the first branch’s relocation to France should be happening soon.
Nose feeling a bit sore, Rebecca’s gaze fixed on the familiar and handso black handwriting.
In her scattered vision, his handwriting gradually turned into words imprinted in her mind...
It’s said that crystal balls have a kind of magic allowing people to foresee the future. Darling, tell , is the future you see in the crystal ball the sa as what I see?
His deep, magnetic voice seed to echo clearly in her ears...
A faint pain arose in her heart.
At that mont, a steady and efficient sound of footsteps ca from outside the door.
Her familiarity with him was such that she could easily identify it as him just from the footsteps.
Quelling the sourness in her heart, Rebecca placed the docunt back on the desk. As she turned around, her gaze already t Howard Geoffrey, who was walking through the office door at that mont.
She didn’t know when it started, but whenever they entered each other’s gaze, although not entirely unfamiliar, there was an inexplicable distance born between them. And in his eyes, she glimpsed a trace of gentle indifference.
Howard’s gaze directly swept past Rebecca, moving towards his desk. Picking up a docunt he needed to handle, he looked down at it, his thin lips faintly uttering, "It seems my secretary is becoming more and more bold."
As Howard passed by Rebecca, the cold aura emanating from him beca increasingly palpable, stirring a sense of desolation in her heart.
But none of these emotions were allowed to manifest on her face. She lightly bit her lip before speaking, "Don’t bla Secretary Cecily, I was the one who asked her for help."
"Tell , what’s going on?"
Unlike his previous confrontational deanor upon seeing her, he seed particularly calm and without any intention of making things difficult for her this ti.
"I..." The words Rebecca wanted to say caught in her throat, and she directly gazed at his handso profile, asking, "Could you please look at ?"
"I have things to do this afternoon, I don’t have much ti."
Howard’s words were very neutral but tore at her heart.
The ability she developed over the past half year to conceal her emotions in front of others now served her well. She calmly said, "I’ll only take a few minutes of your ti."
Howard finally set down the docunt in his hand, his dark eyes turning toward her.
On his familiar and handso face was an unfamiliar, aloof expression.
Rebecca stared blankly at Howard for a few seconds before slowly speaking, "Actually, there’s sothing I’ve been hesitating to tell you because I don’t know if you’d still want to hear an explanation, but I finally thought it over, and telling you about it would ease my heart, as keeping it inside has been painful."
Howard’s dark eyes were deeply fixed on her, silent, seemingly waiting for her to continue.
At this mont, Rebecca withdrew her intense stare from him, bowed her head, and slowly spoke, "I’m sorry, about the child... I’m sorry."
Howard’s response was cold, "What aning is there in saying this now?"
Rebecca nodded, "I know there’s no aning, I just wanted to explain... Actually, during the ti when my emotions collapsed, I did have thoughts of not wanting the child, but I could never be that cruel. The dication Doctor Henley prescribed to , I forced myself to get it, but I knew I would never take it... During those days when you went to Italy, I had actually decided to keep the child, and I planned to discuss the child with you after you returned, but by a twist of fate, I took the wrong dication ant to protect the pregnancy, leading the servant to misunderstand that I didn’t want the child."
Howard’s handso face was severe, his dark eyes always deeply looking down at her.
Rebecca swallowed the bitterness in her throat and continued, "I know you decided to separate from because you were worried that my instability at the ti would really harm the child, but regardless of whether you believe it or not, after separating from you, I was very careful each day about the child. I constantly looked forward to the child’s birth, taking great care of my body, fearing that my emotions might affect the child. So I almost lay in bed every day, watching films and TV shows that made happy. However... for so unknown reason, one day while I was lying in bed, I suddenly started bleeding..."
At this point, Rebecca couldn’t suppress the pain and distress this mory brought her, and a thin mist quickly covered her clear eyes.
Quickly realizing she shouldn’t be this vulnerable in front of him, Rebecca imdiately wiped away the tears gathering in her eyes and suddenly gave a light laugh, "Maybe telling you all this now is unnecessary, but I’m glad I finally explained it to you."
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