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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.

You don’t actually need to work;

go. Don’t waste our

still waiting for us. Would you

detecting the hostility

she took a deep breath and

need to argue about something

a problem couldn’t be resolved promptly. Besides, there were eight elevators in total. It was

elevator doors closed, someone in the

too harsh just now?”

tactless… She doesn’t do any work at all,

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when we achieve

That’s

60th floor through another elevator and hastily looked for a book she put away.

hard, she was sure she

discovered her

Keira was dumbfounded.

matter how much she tried, she

to be reading

Horton Group’s library

taken

did the book go?

realized something…

the company who could get

top floor.

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was engrossed with his own

flipped through the thick volume in his hands.

was about

the subject

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

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 in a department that matched her major, to

replied, “She’s not really here to work.”

Tom was perplexed.

feel that the boss seemed to be speaking up

must be his illusion!

“This book doesn’t

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Should we

saw it today. He suddenly remembered the feeling of her in his

felt dry-mouthed, “No need

now.”

go upstairs to get the book from Lewis, but when

she strolled back to the R&D

she spotted Jalen and team members drinking coffee in

expressions on

couldn

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