Aaron nodded. He raised his hand to pat Annie’s shoulder and comfort her. After all, the past few days have been nerve-wracking for her. “Don’t worry, Annie.”

Marcus, Annie’s boyfriend, felt uncomfortable when he saw his immediate boss acting inappropriately toward his girlfriend. Even so, it was difficult for him to express his dissatisfaction directly to his boss.

He approached them and comforted Annie too. “That’s good to know, Annie. It’s great that your uncle and aunt. You have nothing to worry about now.”

Annie looked at Marcus and snapped back to reality. She realized she had been too close to Aaron, so she took a step back and kept her distance from him.

Aaron immediately understood what she was thinking and pursed his lips to smile at her.

Marcus raised his hand and hugged Annie’s shoulders. “Mister Aaron is right. You shouldn’t go in right now, so how about we wait outside? I saw a shop not far from here. Let’s go get something to drink while we wait.”

Annie was not in the mood to drink anything. She shook her head and said, “No thanks. I don’t feel like drinking anything right now.”

“Then I’ll wait here

on Annie’s shoulder and asked softly, “Have you prepared the slides for tomorrow’s

entire night working on it

to the higher-ups in the meeting

a little

important work to complete, so she said considerately, “You should head home if you have work to do. You don’t have to wait

was still somewhat

“Don’t worry about me. I’ve made sure that my uncle is fine. He’ll send

at Annie and was still

work responsibilities. I’ll take care

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