She Is A CEO

“Please, do not be so reasonable.” Eduard complained, “You make me think there’s no better woman in the world than you …”

“You do?” Lucia said amusedly, “I heard that you were hitting on Miss Allen lately. I guess you’ll get together soon.”

“She is not a good choice… She acts like a spoiled girl and gossips all day round… Lucia, why don’t you be my girlfriend? It would save me a lot of trouble.” Eduard took the opportunity to confess his love jokingly.

Lucia held up her hand in refusal and said with disgust, “That’s not going to work. I can’t make a playboy like you stop fooling around.”

“Lucia …” Eduard made an aggrieved face and begged, “Can’t you?”

“No.” Lucia shook her head.

“All right then, I should better date Miss Allen tonight.” Hiding the feeling of loss, Eduard stood up and said, “Let me know when you’re leaving and I’ll go with you.”

“You’re going too?” Lucia asked, raising an eyebrow.

“Drison is not far from us. It will worry me if you go alone. Besides, I’m better at talking to women than you are.” Eduard smiled mischievously and showed his manly charm.

“She is fifty-six! Eduard, you are not picky about women, are you?” Hearing Eduard’s words, Lucia couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

winked at Lucia before exiting her office. After he left, the room

did not contact each other. Lucia had an inner struggle of two speculations on her mind after calming down. One was

internal struggle of whether or not to contact Arthur, the images of Jacob and Poppy making out

so she could only try to do something else to

that easy. Athegate was a big city, but Arthur seemed to be everywhere. Almost all the economic reports reported news about him. Entertainment magazines occasionally published pictures

whether she

than half a month passed. The spring came and it drizzled in Athegate every day, washing the whole city. Lucia just returned from visiting Theodore in Chicago. As soon as she

to pick her up when she was about to arrive,

and looked conspicuous among

thought it was a chance encounter and went up to greet Sophie joyfully. They hadn’t seen each other

Sophie answered softly. Her knitted brows betrayed her sadness. Lucia could see

waiting for me?” Lucia

get you home first and we’ll talk about it.” Sophie let out a sigh and took Lucia’s hand and

refuse Sophie’s kindness. Sophie seemed to be in a bad mood, which made Lucia

the two

lights were turned on to light up the

back to the living room to sit with Sophie

I went to look for Nia. She told me you had gone