Frank murmured, “Good men shouldn’t die like that.”

“Yeah.” Vicky sighed, pausing as she remembered something else. “What about Helen? Does she know her mother kidnapped Winter?”

“I don’t know.” Frank shook his head.

“I see…” Vicky murmured and got up to give him a gentle peck on the forehead, tousling his hair as she said, “As the CEO of Grande Pharma, I’m ordering you to take the week off—after that, you must come to work looking spirited.”

“Heh.” Frank chuckled bitterly. “Thank you.”

“Caring for employees’ health is a CEO’s responsibility. Anyway, just call me if anything comes up.” Vicky smiled at him and started to leave the room.

However, she opened the door to find that Winter had been eavesdropping.

Leveling a cheeky smile at Winter, she asked, “What were you doing?”

hands. “N-Nothing! I was just going to call you for breakfast. Would you rather I bring the soup to your room,

really was a

and shook his head—there was no point in lingering in the past now.

smiled mischievously at Frank in turn, brushing her fingers over lips as she turned to Winter and

“You’re full. Oh!”

think for a while to

to her ears right then, she turned

exasperatedly as he watched Vicky tease Winter and left

asked Winter, “Don’t you still have

felt guilty even as he drank the soup Winter cooked while watching her

stayed calm and answered her call, then Winter would never have been

stayed his hand since he was unsure what to do, since said fishwives were

J .

worry, Frank. Vicky will give me

wondered while Winter kept her back to him, her little face

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