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 would

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

ticking

to Jean in

the gate of the manor called her just now, telling her that Rose had come back. Then,

back, his hanging heart was finally at ease

that Austin's car was slowly walking towards the direction of the villa.

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

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

she said

bad? Was that the reason why she

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

treat you well, you can come to me." After hesitating for a long time, Austin finally got up

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

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

Holding the steering wheel, he quietly watched

believed that one day, Rose would accept his love, leave Burke

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.

and looked

saw Rose and Burke were looking at

of what happened

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

you want to explain?" Burke repressed the anger in his heart and asked in

what? There is nothing to

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