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.

As maids, they were all very careful, for fear that they would say something wrong

He returned to

corner kept ticking and the sky went dark gradually.

over to Jean in

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

hanging heart was finally at ease for the whole day. And his

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

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.

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

a long while, she said

that the

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

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

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

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

steering wheel, he quietly watched Rose get off

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

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

subconsciously and

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

It was him.' When he thought of what happened to

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

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

to explain.

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