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.

had already been very dark. As maids, they were all very careful, for fear that they

and left the table. He returned

the corner kept ticking and the sky went dark

to

is back." The doorman at the gate of the manor called her just now, telling her that Rose had come

hanging heart was finally at

saw that Austin's car was slowly walking towards the direction of the villa. His heart sank when he saw the familiar car body

of the villa and looking at them. Austin turned around and looked into Rose's eyes. He hesitated for a moment,

soon as these words came out of his mouth, Rose couldn't help but froze. She didn't understand why Austin would ask

she said

not bad? Was that

for Rose, but at the same time he felt guilty and remorseful for not protecting her when she needed help

come to me." After hesitating for a long time, Austin finally got up the courage

was stunned. She was clear about the dubious meaning of Austin's words, and felt at a loss what to do. She had never had an improper wish for Austin. Since

she thanked Austin, Rose opened the

he quietly watched Rose

day, Rose would accept his love, leave

she saw Burke standing at the gate of the villa, looking at her direction

stopped subconsciously and

she did not want to 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

him.' When he thought of what happened

one of his legs and walked slowly towards Rose with a gloomy face. His strong aura seemed to devour her in an

in

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