“Okay, will do.”

Since her superior had said so, Natalie had no choice but to swallow her grievance.

After leaving the office, Natalie promptly took her laptop to the repair shop.

“It was soaked in coffee and the hard disk is damaged.I’m sorry but I can’t retrieve the data for you.” The technician at the shop took a quick look at the damaged laptop and shook his head.

He tossed Natalie’s laptop aside and offered, “Are you considering getting a new one? All the second-hand computers here are cost- effective.”

“Oh, no, thanks.”

Although Natalie had already expected the worst, she was still very depressed.She took back her laptop and left the shop.

dejectedly.It took her a long time to finish this series of drafts.

Now, even if she had to redraw it, it would take at least a day to finish everything.

But the work had to be submitted by tomorrow morning. It would be futile to even try since there were only several hours left before the deadline. It was already 12:30 in the morning when Natalie came back home with a cloud over her head.

She walked into the dark living room quietly.

Suddenly, the lights went on, illuminating the whole apartment suddenly.

Natalie raised her hand to block the light and squinted.

Sebastian was leaning against the wall near the door, with his arms crossed over his chest.

Frowning slightly, his I lips pursed into a straight line, and his dark, sharp eyes seemed to penetrate hers.

“Why are you so late?”

“Well, I worked overtime today.There is a competition in our company,” she said, letting out a weary sigh.

Natalie was exhausted, both physically and mentally, so she went straight to her room.

Sebastian’s heart sank as she didn’t bother to even look at him.He didn’t wait all night just to hear something like this.

Sebastian wrapped his arms around her waist from behind and rested his chin on her shoulder.

“Spend some time with me,” he said, nestling his face in the crook of her neck.

wanted to kiss her and make out with her.He couldn’t let

all, he was a shrewd

late.Aren’t

warm, steady breath blowing against her skin made Natalie restless.Her heart was crashing in

She turned around.

on tiptoe and pecked him

blush painted

I had to submit my designs for the competition by tomorrow morning.Unfortunately, one of my colleagues splashed coffee on my

his lips as he thought

splash coffee on your laptop on purpose,

talk about it.She felt annoyed to even

intentions don’t matter to me anymore.I have lost all my drawings, and it sucks.I

all week designing for the

Natalie’s face answered

don’t beat yourself about it.It doesn’t matter if you don’t get selected this time.After all, you had

disappointment on her face, he kissed the

will be plenty of opportunities

“Hmm.” Natalie nodded.

that irked her, and she hated the woman for destroying

her forget all

the man, who wrapped her with his love and

and kissed her

the design tomorrow, sleep

and the burning trails of his

wake up

bed, replaying the kisses in her head over and over

next morning, Kaya went

still mad at her.She scowled at her

I was simply angry and hurt that you

box of chocolates

she sounded sincere, the complacency in

delicious.” Although Kaya was smiling at her, Natalie somehow felt the woman

chocolate aside

was about to sit down, the lights on the entire floor went off,

is it a power outage?” someone

hours yet, and most employees had just

failure only caused a commotion but didn’t affect

staff downstairs, and ask them to check the

I didn’t start my work.Otherwise,

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