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.

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

asking more, Burke got up and left the table. He returned to the living room and continued to read the

ticking

over to Jean

gate of the manor called her just now, telling her that Rose

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

out of the villa. From a distance, he saw that Austin's car was slowly walking towards the direction of the villa.

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.

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

while, she said slowly,

bad? Was that the reason

sorry for Rose, but at the same time he felt guilty and remorseful for

me." After hesitating for a long time, Austin

dubious meaning of Austin's words, and felt at a loss what to do. She

back." As she thanked Austin, Rose opened the door herself in

Holding the steering wheel, he quietly

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

moment Rose got off, she saw Burke standing at the gate of the villa, looking at her direction with a cold face. The anger in his eyes seemed to burn her to ashes immediately.

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

what happened

legs and walked slowly towards Rose with a gloomy face. His strong aura seemed to

repressed the anger in his heart and asked in

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