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

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

corner kept ticking and the sky went dark

ran over to Jean

Rose is back." The doorman at the gate of the manor called her just now, telling her that Rose had come back.

his hanging heart was finally at

was slowly walking towards the direction of the villa. His heart sank when he saw

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

Rose couldn't help but froze. She didn't understand why Austin would ask her such a

while, she said slowly, "Just

not bad? Was that the reason why

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

for a long

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 had no

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

stop her. Holding the steering wheel, he

accept his love, leave Burke and

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

and looked at

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

of what happened to Hetian Real Estate Project, Burke was

slowly towards Rose with a gloomy face. His

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

what? There is nothing to explain. " Said Rose.

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