Submit to the Boss He Rules the Boardroom and the Bedroom

Chapter303 She was Only a Substitute? Standing beside the flower beds in the nigh breeze, August was in front of his car.

Being a bit tipsy, he tried to steady himself by leaning against the car languorously while squinting at the direction of the stairs.

He actually couldn't account for his behavior now.

He had been drinking with Joshua in Perfect Fortune just now to dissipate the gloominess in his heart.

Yet Lucia's face kept floating into his mind, making him even more upset.

He thus kept on drinking, and was a bit drunken when he eventually left Perfect Fortune.

Burton was to send him home, yet he just gave him the address of Lucia without much thinking, probably because he was already unable to think.

The sound activated lights on the ground floor was lit before long, and Lucia appeared some seconds later.

Wearing a long ivory overcoat which got her white and spidery legs exposed outside, she ran towards him like a butterfly, her hair floating in the air.

Feeling a crush in his heart, August just couldn't take his eyes off her.

Lucia went up to the car, and passed him the bottle of icy water after taking a gasp.

"Now you can let me know the matter"

Looking down at the bottle, August got his eyes fixed on her thin wrist.

"I'm sorry I wasn't helping today."

he muttered after a moment's silence.

He'd promised her in his office that he would keep her safe, yet in the end he wasn't the one who managed to help her out.

Lucia paused for some seconds before she finally grasped what he meant.

"It's OK.

It's gone now."

said she blandly.

She knew the situation had been quite disadvantageous to August, when Bishop was challenging him and Eliot had to consider the broad picture fairly.

fighting alone, and she was already quite gratified when he was willing to back

August looked up at her, frowning,

"Not at all."

Lucia shook her head.

silence, it suddenly occurred to August that Jamie had mentioned the girlfriend stuff to her, and that made

giving him the water, August abruptly stretched out his hand to get hold of

he

Lucia was astounded.

away, yet his grip of her waist was so tight that she

"I might be drunken."

his hoarse

felt her

feel a little dizzy, probably because

hold him tighter, as this

turned round with her in his arms, and

his arms which

looked up at him

"What..."

this drunken man was regarding her with

hair was no longer as orderly as usual, with some locks falling

tie had been loosened and two buttons at the top, undone, just

August, and seemed quite appealing

slowly and whispered to her, "I'll try my best to make you carefree in

face began burning as her heartbeat went even more

was still in silence, August raised her chin up with his hand, "Did

urge, Lucia had lost the strength to

took a deep breath, "You've drunk

frivolous words to her

only ignored her remind, and approached her ear under his breath, "Could you still dine with me in

almost paralyzed, and her mind really a mess

She couldn't help considering those ambiguous words of

she was thinking hard, something occurred to her -- she actually had seldom dinned with him in the

quite certain now August was mistaking her

just got Lucia

was not to be the substitute, she said to herself, especially when the man was not sober enough! She calmed down

if I refuse

warm hands and abruptly

puzzled, though she regained enough composure some seconds later as