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 very careful, for fear that they would say something wrong and do something wrong.

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

the corner kept ticking and

to Jean

her just now, telling her

at ease for the whole day. And

closed his laptop and strode out of the villa. From a distance, he saw that Austin's car was slowly walking towards the direction of the villa. His

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 asked in a low voice.

as these 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

long while, she

means not bad? Was that the reason

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

can come to me." After hesitating for a long time,

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 met Burke twelve years ago, she had no room for

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

didn't stop her. Holding the steering wheel, he quietly watched

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

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

subconsciously and looked at

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

was him.' When he thought of what happened to

time, Burke raised one of his legs and walked slowly towards Rose with a gloomy face. His strong aura seemed to devour her in an instant. Without fear, Rose

repressed the anger in his heart and asked

what? There is nothing to explain. " Said Rose.

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