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

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

in the corner kept ticking and the sky

to Jean

her just now,

hanging heart was finally at ease for the whole day.

car was slowly walking towards the direction of the villa. His heart sank when he saw the familiar car body and license plate

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.

but froze. She didn't understand why Austin would ask her such a private question, and didn't know

she said slowly,

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

sorry for Rose, but at the same time he felt

well, you can come to me." After hesitating for a

to do. She had never had an improper wish for Austin. Since she met Burke twelve years ago, she had

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

her. Holding the steering wheel, he quietly

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

at her direction with a cold face. The anger in

and looked

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

he thought of what happened to Hetian

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

the anger in his heart and asked in a low voice.

nothing to explain. "

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