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.

already been very dark. As maids, they were all very careful, for fear that they would

Burke got up and left the table. He returned

clock in the corner kept ticking and the sky went dark

over to Jean in

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

was finally at ease for

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 secretly clenched his fists.

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

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

while, she said

It means not bad? Was that the reason why she

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

After hesitating for a long time, Austin

do. She had never had an

she thanked Austin, Rose opened the door herself in

Holding the steering wheel, he quietly watched

Rose would accept his love,

villa, looking at her direction with a cold face. The

and

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

what happened to Hetian

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

anger in his heart and asked in a low voice.

nothing to

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