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?”

up her hands. “N-Nothing! I was just going to call

really was a

his head—there was no point in lingering in the past now. “I’ll be

her fingers over lips as she turned to Winter and giggled. “I’m skipping

“You’re full. Oh!”

naive, Winter had to think for

ears right

he watched Vicky tease Winter and left his

he asked Winter, “Don’t

the soup Winter

he had stayed calm and answered her call, then Winter would never have been taken away by those fishwives or

must have stayed his hand since he was unsure what

J .

D-Don’t worry, Frank. Vicky

perplexed, but he kept eating even as he wondered while Winter kept her back to him, her little face not appearing to be

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