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.

time, Burke's face had already been very dark. As maids, they were all

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

clock in the corner kept ticking and

ran over to Jean in excitement.

of the manor called her just now, telling her that Rose had come back. Then, she rushed to

finally at ease for the whole

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

eyes. He hesitated for a moment, but he didn't say what he had hidden in his heart. He turned around and looked

She didn't understand why Austin would ask her

long while, she said slowly, "Just

Was that the reason why she had been

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

to me." After hesitating for a long time,

was stunned. She was clear about the dubious meaning of Austin's words, and felt at a loss what to do. She had

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

her. Holding the steering wheel, he

would accept his love, leave Burke

moment Rose got off, she saw Burke standing at the gate of the villa, looking at her direction with a cold

stopped subconsciously and looked at Burke.

Austin also got out of the car. Thinking that it was not convenient for Rose's legs and feet to walk in, she did 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, three

of what happened to Hetian

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

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

is nothing to explain.

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