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Luca was in a stun and stared at her in disbelief.

Keira casually said, “I said, it was sent to your inbox last Friday.”

Luca swallowed. “Wasn’t that an empty email?”

Keira was bewildered.

Luca realized something and ran to his workstation. Looking at his email on the computer, he indeed saw the attachment!

But he still couldn’t believe it. He opened the attachment nervously!

The development of new energy is different from software coding.

Not only did they use computer simulators, but they also had to go into the lab for real experiments.

Keira had finished the task assigned to her last Friday, so Luca spent all morning in the lab assisting Jalen, and that’s why he didn’t notice.

Once the attachment was downloaded, Luca couldn’t

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wait to look at it.

As he read through it, he immersed himself in the

report.

The application of core technology was a bit complex. Some of it took him quite a while to understand.

Seeing his silence, Keira prepared to take the elevator to the 60th floor where the archives were located.

The elevator arrived, and she entered it just as a group

of members did.

The R&D Department and the laboratory were located on different floors of the tower, and they each had

their own tasks to do.

“Beep!”

The elevator alarm beeped, indicating that it was

overloaded.

Someone said, “Keira, you better get off.”

Their tone was tinged with displeasure.

Keira was taken aback and raised her head, “I wasn’t the last one to get on.”

The person scoffed. “Even though that’s the case, work

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is first come first served. We’re in a hurry, and you’re so idle. If you’re not busy, why don’t you get off first?”

The others immediately echoed.

to work; you’re just going to

Don’t waste our time!”

Would you be

the hostility

understand what was going on, she took a deep breath

didn’t need to argue about

understood the exasperation when a problem couldn’t be resolved promptly. Besides, there were eight elevators in total.

closed, someone in the

bit too harsh just now?”

She doesn’t do any work at all,

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when we achieve results, she reaps the

too. That’s not fair!”

floor through another elevator and hastily looked for a book

sure she could solve old Mrs. Horton’s problem soon.

then, she discovered her book was

Keira was dumbfounded.

bookshelf, but no matter how much she tried, she couldn’t

to

Horton Group’s

taken out!

did the book

she realized something…

only one person in the company who could get a book out of

top floor.

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was engrossed with his own

he flipped through the

was about neuroscience.

familiar with the subject due to

difficult to understand. He was also curious to know why Keira

detailed report of Keira’s actions downstairs. He then added, “Boss, Keira is simply taking advantage of Mrs. Horton’s fondness for her and acting as she pleases! You even arranged for her to be

“She’s not really here

Tom was perplexed.

the boss seemed to

be his

“This book doesn’t seem

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Should we

the book, thinking about the girl’s anticipation when she saw it today. He suddenly remembered the feeling of her in his

felt dry-mouthed, “No

now.”

to get the book from Lewis, but when she remembered

she strolled back to the R&D department.

and team members drinking coffee in the

weary expressions on their

Keira’s laid-back demeanor, someone couldn help but speak up:

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