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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;

up and go. Don’t waste

still waiting for us. Would you be

the hostility of the

on, she took a deep breath and got off

didn’t need to argue about something like that.

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

closed, someone in

bit too harsh just

tactless… She doesn’t do any

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we achieve results,

too. That’s

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

studied hard, she was sure she could solve old Mrs. Horton’s problem soon.

then, she discovered her

Keira was dumbfounded.

no matter how much she tried, she

seemed to be reading

in the Horton Group’s library clearly

be taken

did the

realized something…

company who

the top

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was engrossed with his

flipped through the thick volume in his

was

the subject

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

provided Lewis with a 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 in a department that matched her major, to give her a chance to learn and

not really here to work.”

Tom was perplexed.

but feel that the boss seemed

be his

“This book doesn’t

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we return it?”

saw it

a sudden, he felt dry-mouthed, “No need

now.”

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

strolled back to the

elevator, she spotted Jalen and team members drinking

had weary expressions on their faces.

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

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