Stuck in you

Jack glanced at Austin and continued to twirl with the pen in between his fingertips. "What's up?"

From the look on Austin's face, what he was about to say had nothing to do with business. Every time he showed even a flicker of emotion, it meant that what he was going to say was meant for private ears.

Now, it had something to do with Jack.

"Miss Duan is in the lobby, and everyone says that you quarreled with her. She looks devastated."

If Austin hadn't gone to the executive department, he wouldn't have heard about it.

The executive department held the largest number of female employees in the company. It was also the place where gossip was known to circulate.

When Austin came over to get some office supplies, he was surprised to see several employees crowding in one spot and talking about a certain someone.

Since he wasn't busy today, he stood aside and listened to what they were talking about. The man stiffened when he heard Celine's name.

"Wait, what's wrong with Celine? What did you say?" Austin took a step forward.

"Austin..."

Suddenly, the crowd dispersed. As if nothing had happened, they all went back to their seats and pretended to look at case files.

Austin decided to ask one of them, "What were you talking about?"

"Nothing." The female employee waved her hand. Who would dare gossip about Jack in front of Austin?

Accustomed to this kind of situation, Austin frowned. "In that case, I can give you the corresponding punishment according to the employee manual."

"Austin, please don't. We won't be able to survive the next month if our salary's deducted," she begged. Her eyes glistened with unshed tears as she stared up at him. "Just pretend you didn't hear anything."

"Speak then."

He took a step back and waited.

Knowing that her own salary was on the line, the female employee whispered, "We just saw Celine sitting in the lobby with red eyes, so we assumed that they had a fight."

"That's it?"

Seeing that she nodded, Austin immediately returned to his boss's office with the office supplies that he had collected. After what he had heard, Jack immediately walked down to check it himself.

"Why are you here?"

Celine. He couldn't help but feel strange at the way she bowed her

didn't she come

"Jack," she stuttered out

tightly and comforted

her emotions had no effect on

before motioning to the receptionist to send him a box of tissues. "Wipe your tears first,"

to show off her tears

his office, Jack turned to her.

eyes. "Nothing. I just felt sad, so

plan was to pretend to be so pitiful and wait for him to ask her why. Once he did, she would tell him all about what Rachel

Jack motioned to the door. "In that case, you can sit in the meeting room to calm

hard that she thought that her

had already engrossed himself on work that he didn't

a word. Finally, she couldn't help but snap, "Aren't you going to ask me what had happened?

corner of

her now? Wasn't she

his heart, Jack tried

in her eyes. "I bought a necklace yesterday, but they mixed it with another customer's stuff. So I took the wrong one. Today, when I went to take my necklace back, I

did you get

now. She

and gazed at it. "I liked it very much," she murmured.

The necklace looked familiar.

flashed in his gaze. "Who took your

buy the necklace, and I happened to run into Eric. I

about it this morning. When I went to her to take it back, not

herself, she bit her lower lip and continued, "She said that my things were dirty and I set her up on purpose, but I didn't! How

for a long time, Celine looked up to see his forehead creasing in confusion. A part of her was satisfied of the fact that he actually listened to

hate

was absolutely no

was that Jack had been thinking of another

remembered that Eric

had told him that it was the only necklace around the

now, Celine was protesting how

a moment of

you ask Eric when you found out the mishap?

problem was a play directed and

that meant that the woman had spies planted around them. Otherwise,

for the necklace. Everything didn't seem