After a long beep, a sweet female voice came from the receiver, "Sorry, the number you dialed is not answer at the moment, please redial later..."

Then he hung up and dialed again.

Burke did it over and over again and only got the sweet mechanical female voice.

Burke's face darkened.

As time passed, the hot air in the coffee cup kept rising in mist and finally disappeared.

The clock in the corner of the living room knocked twelve times, but Rose hadn't come back yet.

Sitting on the couch, Burke looked through the files sent by Mike.

"Mr. Gu, it's time for lunch." Sophie prepared the lunch and went to the living room to remind James.

Burke nodded, put down the documents, and went to the table to eat.

Though he had ate the lunch, he did not get much taste for he had been worrying.

"Is there still no news about Rose?" Burke put down his chopsticks and looked up at Sophie.

"No." Sophie shook her head helplessly.

"Where's the driver? Have you got in touch with him?" Burke asked again.

"No, I haven't..." Sophie answered in a low voice.

were all very careful, for fear that they would say something wrong and do something wrong.

left the table. He returned to the living room and continued to read

kept ticking and the sky went dark gradually.

ran over to Jean in

manor called her just now, telling her that Rose had come back. Then, she rushed to tell Burke.

was back, his hanging heart was finally at ease for the whole day. And his gloomy face was somewhat

saw that Austin's car was slowly walking towards the direction

car near the villa, distracted by the mess in his mind. He didn't notice that Burke was standing at the gate of the villa and looking at them. Austin turned around and looked into Rose's eyes. He hesitated for a moment, but he didn't say what he had hidden in his heart. He turned around and looked at the windshield aimlessly. "Burke... Didn't he treat you well?" He asked in

mouth, Rose couldn't help but froze. She didn't understand why Austin would ask her

a long while, she said slowly,

that the reason why she

time he felt guilty and remorseful for not protecting

he doesn't treat you well, you can come to me." After hesitating for a long time, Austin finally got up

to do. She

for sending me back. Drive carefully on the way back." As she thanked Austin, Rose opened the door herself in an

Holding the steering wheel, he quietly watched Rose get off

believed that one day, Rose would accept his love, leave Burke and come to his side.

the gate of the villa, looking at her direction with

stopped subconsciously and looked at Burke.

get out of the car. But the moment he got off the car, he saw Rose and Burke were looking at each other from far. The flames of fury in Burke's eyes seemed to spurt out at any time, and Rose was expressionless, not affected by the fury in Burke. With Austin's hand holding the

It was him.' When he thought of what happened

with a gloomy face. His strong aura seemed to devour her in an instant. Without fear, Rose looked at him calmly

the anger in his heart

to explain. "

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