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.

the workday. His face looked grim, and his energy seemed low. He stood beside her desk

followed closely behind. When they reached the ground floor, she spotted Liam right away. He was holding

"How are you already picking up bad

with me to the shop next door? I'll only take

wasn't the type to hold grudges against her younger brother, so she went with him. No one called out to Yancey, but

the nearby coffee shop. Liam ordered a dessert and slid it across the

sat beside Grace and shamelessly ordered one for

any mind. She didn't own the coffee shop, so he could sit wherever he

just had dessert in Ethan's office earlier, and with her strict standards for her figure, she wasn't in the mood for another. Instead, she cut straight to the point. "Alright, what's the matter? Why did

words for a

it amusing. She picked up her iced coffee and sipped on it, the bitterness spreading

try to convince me to say that the recording was my doing? What is it

the face. But how could he just stand there and do nothing after hearing about

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