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

returned to the living room and continued

kept ticking and the sky went

suddenly ran over to Jean in excitement.

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

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

distance, he saw that Austin's car was slowly walking towards the direction of the

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

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

a long while, she said slowly,

It means not bad? Was that the reason why she had

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

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

She had never had an improper wish

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

steering wheel, he quietly watched Rose

day, Rose would accept his love,

the villa, looking at her direction with a cold face.

stopped subconsciously and

Rose and Burke were looking at each other

of what happened to Hetian Real

towards Rose with a gloomy face. His strong aura seemed to devour her in

explain?" Burke repressed the anger in his

nothing to explain. "

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