“I saw that you were working and didn’t want to disturb you.”

A look of embarrassment washed over Catherine’s face upon hearing the angry words. However, she realized this was all her own fault.

“Indeed, you’ve disturbed me at work.” Shaun crossed his arms in front of his chest, acting as if he was annoyed and impatient to have been interrupted.

Hadley, who was watching this on the side, was undeniably shocked.

‘Boss, you’ve been waiting several days for this. Stop acting! Or you’ll get anxious again if she walks away.’

In order to ease the tense atmosphere, he smiled. “Miss Jones, is that a gift for Mr. Hill that you’re holding?”

 

“Yes, um, not really. I made him lunch.” She quickly retrieved the lunchbox from its bag.

Shaun began fiddling with the ink pen on the table. His eyes shone with ridicule. “But I remember a certain someone saying she’s not trying to please me anymore, hence she’s not obligated to prepare my meals.”

She clenched her teeth at the sudden attack. “Mr. Hill, I didn’t know better in the past…”

said, tapping the pen

her by

again, still

 

say. It was surely difficult to understand what was going

One of them was pretentious while the other one was slow. Watching their interactions made him anxious. “Miss Jones, you can

“Shaunny?” She finally realized.

he threw a cold stare at his assistant. “Have

his head before scurrying

 
 

wrong.” She could not help defending the

“How dare you side with another man right in front

“…”

in the face of this petty

only because he’s your assistant. It’s almost noon. Are

sweet. She was behaving submissively to

pleased with the sound of that. This was how it should be instead

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