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.

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

left the table. He returned to the living room and continued

corner kept ticking and the sky went dark gradually.

over to Jean in

just now, telling her that Rose had come

hanging heart was finally at ease for the whole

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

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

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

while, she said

Was that the reason

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

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

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

As she thanked Austin, Rose opened the door herself in an attempt to escape from

her. Holding the steering wheel, he quietly watched Rose

Rose would accept his love, leave Burke and

gate of the villa, looking at her direction with a cold face. The anger in his eyes seemed to burn her to

subconsciously and looked at Burke.

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,

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

a gloomy face. His strong aura seemed to devour

repressed the anger in

is nothing to explain.

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