“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…”

me?” he said, tapping the pen against the desk. His words reeked

caught her by

again, still

 

what to say. It was surely

them was pretentious while the other one was slow. Watching their

“Shaunny?” She finally realized.

the man and he threw a cold stare at his assistant. “Have you not got work to do? Get

his head before scurrying out

 
 

She could not help defending the

feet and glared at her. “How dare you side

“…”

speechless in the face of this petty

before arguing back with a pout, “It’s only because he’s your assistant. It’s almost noon. Are you hungry? The food has cooled down a little. Should I heat it up for

soft and sweet. She was behaving submissively to him again like

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

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