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?”

threw up her hands. “N-Nothing! I was just going to call you for breakfast. Would you

was

shook his head—there was no point in lingering

over lips as she turned to Winter and

“You’re full. Oh!”

naive, Winter had to think for a while

right

he watched Vicky tease Winter

down at the dining table, he asked Winter, “Don’t you still have

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

answered her call, then Winter would never have been taken

what to do, since said fishwives were from the

J .

worry, Frank. Vicky will give me

kept

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