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.

quietly from then on, but Yancey appeared just as it was nearing the end of the workday. His face looked grim, and his energy seemed low. He stood beside her desk in silence before speaking hoarsely. "Liam's waiting for you downstairs. He's been there all

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

you already picking up bad habits

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

grudges against her younger brother, so she went with him. No one called out to Yancey, but he still

in the nearby coffee shop. Liam ordered a

and shamelessly

didn't own the coffee shop, so

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

for words for

guessed that it was probably related to Alice. She couldn't help but find it amusing. She

you here to try to convince me to say that the recording was my doing? What is it this time?

as if he had just been slapped hard across the face. But how

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