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.

dark. As maids, they were all very careful, for fear that they would say something

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

clock in the corner kept ticking and the sky went

over to Jean in excitement.

is back." The doorman at the gate of the manor called her just now, telling her that Rose had come back. Then, she rushed to tell Burke.

was finally at ease for the whole day. And his

his laptop and strode out of 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

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

of his mouth, Rose couldn't help but froze. She didn't understand why Austin would ask her such a private question, and didn't know how to answer

a long while, she said

Was that the reason why she had

he felt guilty and remorseful for not protecting

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

a loss what to do. She had never had an improper

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

stop her. Holding the steering wheel, he

one day, Rose would accept his love,

of the villa, looking at her direction with a

stopped subconsciously and looked at

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

him.' When he thought of what happened

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

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

There is nothing to explain. " Said

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