This time, the “overtime” lasted until late into the night.

Lina struggled to get up from the couch, picked up her scattered clothes from the floor, and felt sore all over her body.

“Let me help you.”

Zuko wrapped his arms around her from behind with a satisfied smile. Lina felt his warm chest and his heart beating right along hers against her bare back.

She did not dare to let him help her. She quickly broke free and put on her clothes.

Zuko smiled and got dressed as well. His hand instinctively reached into his pocket, but… there were no more cigarettes.

He finally understood now what his father meant by the “cigarette money” he used to earn.

Lina forced herself to finish reviewing the last bit of information, and then Zuko took her home.

The next day.

They slept until almost 8:00 a.m., only to be awakened by their phones.

“Is it your phone?”

“It’s yours…”

“Hmm?”

They woke up, realizing that their phones were vibrating simultaneously.

from Lina’s secretary. “Ms. Thompson, look at the news! Something

was from Zuko’s assistant. “Mr. Hamerton, um… Uh, there seems to be a problem with the Thompson Group’s project.

were startled awake and opened their phones with numerous news

suddenly appeared out of the blue and held

interior, and even the materials and

“W-What’s going on?”

were already there. Some were on

looked at Lina with mixed feelings. The meeting room

“Ms. Thompson, we trusted you for

did our secrets get

right!” Everyone agreed. “We put a lot of money and effort into this project. We wanted to win

money. Ms.

arguing. She stayed quiet, her calm face making it seem

She was just one person against many. Fighting would make

wasn’t her fault, she was in

was quiet. Everyone looked at

all of you done

up with a

business world. However, not a single one of them uttered another word. It was as if Lina had incredible

gaze swept over each person’s face. “I won’t shirk my responsibility regarding this, but it will take time to find out who leaked

up with a solution in the shortest

does that mean we’ll all be left out in

course not.” A deep and powerful voice suddenly sounded from outside the meeting room.Books

opened, and Zuko

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