After Grace finished one of the desserts, Ethan slid the revised document across to her. The point he had marked was already highlighted.

Grace reached out to take it, but her fingertips accidentally brushed against his. The document slipped from her hand and landed on the desk.

She was slightly taken aback, but Ethan was already looking down, absorbed in whatever he was scribbling with his pen.

Grace assumed he was too busy to notice, so she simply picked up the document from the desk.

"I'll head out now, Mr. Henderson," she said.

"Mhm."

Just as she was about to leave the office, he suddenly said, "There's a social gathering at 7:00 pm tonight."

Grace immediately understood his meaning. "Got it. I'll go with you."

She then shut the office door behind her and returned to her desk.

expected the day to pass quietly from then on, but Yancey appeared just as it was nearing the end of the workday. His face looked grim,

the elevator while Yancey followed closely behind. When they reached the ground floor, she spotted Liam right away. He was holding a cigarette between his fingers. Once he saw her, he

are you already picking up bad

stressed. Can you come with me to the shop

grudges against her younger brother, so she went with him. No

the nearby coffee shop. Liam ordered a dessert and slid

shamelessly ordered one

didn't own the coffee shop, so he could sit wherever

wasn't in the mood for another. Instead, she cut straight to the point. "Alright, what's the matter? Why did you come

fumbling for words for a whole

amusing. She picked up her iced coffee and

to convince me to say that the recording was my doing? What is it this time? Is Alice throwing another tantrum at

across the face. But how could he just stand there and do

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