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.

they were all

more, Burke got up and left the table. He returned to the living

ticking and the sky went dark

over to Jean in

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

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

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

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

words came out of his mouth, Rose couldn't help but froze. She didn't understand why Austin would ask her such a private question, and didn't know

while, she said slowly, "Just

bad? Was that the reason

the same time he felt guilty and remorseful for not protecting her when she needed help most.

me." After hesitating for a long time, Austin

that, Rose 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

carefully on the way back." As she thanked Austin, Rose opened

Holding the steering wheel, he quietly watched Rose get

that one day, Rose would accept his love, leave

at the gate of the villa, looking at her direction

stopped subconsciously and

the same time, Austin also got out of the car. Thinking that it was not convenient for Rose's legs and feet to walk in, 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 Austin's hand holding the car door, three of them stood

was him.' When he thought of what happened to Hetian Real Estate Project, Burke was more furious.

long time, Burke raised one of his legs and walked slowly towards Rose with a gloomy face. His strong

in his heart and asked in a low

There is nothing to

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