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.

very dark. As maids, they were all very

table. He returned to the living room and

the corner kept ticking

over to Jean

Rose is back." The doorman at the gate of the manor called her just

hanging heart was finally at

the villa. From a distance, he saw that Austin's car was slowly walking towards the direction of the villa. His heart sank when he saw the familiar car body and license plate number, and he

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 in his heart. He turned around and looked at the windshield aimlessly. "Burke... Didn't he treat

words came out of his mouth, Rose couldn't help but froze. She didn't understand

long while, she said

means not bad? Was that the reason why she had

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

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

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

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

steering wheel, he quietly

his love, leave Burke and

of the villa, looking at her direction with a cold face. The anger in his

and looked

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 them stood still, not knowing what to do.

was him.' When he thought of what happened to

slowly towards Rose with a gloomy face. His strong aura

want to explain?" Burke repressed the anger in his heart and asked in a low voice.

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