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.

“Ms. Thompson, look

to be a problem with the Thompson

opened their phones with numerous news headlines

real estate company had suddenly appeared out of the blue and held a press conference, releasing the latest information about

and publicity copies, were exactly

“W-What’s going on?”

company, the board members were already

Lina with mixed feelings. The meeting room

someone spoke. “Ms. Thompson, we trusted you for

did our

money and effort into this project. We wanted to win a

all that money. Ms. Thompson, can you

arguing. She stayed quiet, her calm face making it seem like nothing

one person

it wasn’t her fault, she was in charge.

quiet. Everyone looked

of you done

got up

a single one of

take time to find out who

trust me. I’ll come up with a solution in the

solution, does that mean we’ll all be left out in

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and Zuko walked

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