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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 read books!”

up and go. Don’t waste

waiting for us. Would you be responsible

the hostility of the group.

quite understand what was going on, she took a deep breath and got off

argue

a researcher, she understood the exasperation when a problem couldn’t be resolved promptly. Besides, there were eight elevators in total. It was just a matter of wasting a bit more time.

elevator doors closed, someone in the

bit too harsh just now?”

tactless… She doesn’t do any

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when we achieve results, she reaps

too. That’s not

floor through another elevator and hastily looked

hard, she was sure

then, she discovered her book

Keira was dumbfounded.

looked around the bookshelf, but no matter how much she tried, she couldn’t find the

seemed to be reading

in the Horton Group’s library

taken out!

the

she realized something…

company who

top

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with his own

through the thick

was about

familiar with the subject due to

found the book complex and difficult to understand. He was also curious to know why

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 in a department that matched her major,

“She’s not really here to work.”

Tom was perplexed.

boss seemed to be

must be his

doesn’t seem to have much

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we return it?”

the girl’s anticipation when she saw it today. He suddenly remembered the feeling of her in his arms

of a sudden, he felt

now.”

to go upstairs to get the book from Lewis, but when she remembered their

end, she strolled back to the

members

weary expressions on their faces.

someone couldn help but speak up:

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