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.

alone, and she was already quite gratified when he was willing

her, frowning, "So you are

"Not at all."

Lucia shook her head.

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

Lucia was taking her hand back after giving him the water, August abruptly stretched out his hand to get

him stagger before he held her into his arms out of reflection to keep himself

Lucia was astounded.

push him away, yet his grip of her waist was so tight that she couldn't

"I might be drunken."

hoarse

felt

a little dizzy, probably because of the smell

as this drunken man

in his arms, and thus pressed

between his arms which were leaning against the car at her

at

"What..."

off as she suddenly found this drunken man was regarding her with his

longer as orderly as usual, with some locks falling down

had been loosened and two buttons at the top, undone, just to reveal his

no longer the chilly August, and seemed quite appealing to

"I'll try my best

voice was so low and tantalizing that her face began burning as

silence, August raised her chin up with his hand, "Did you hear

lost the strength to push

took a

wouldn't allow himself to utter such frivolous words to

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

and her mind really

was he doing this? She couldn't help

was thinking hard, something occurred to her -- she actually had seldom dinned

was quite certain now August was

got Lucia

the substitute, she said to herself, especially when the man was not sober enough! She calmed down and demanded seriously, "Let go

I

with his warm hands and abruptly bent

enough composure some seconds later as