She sniffed with sarcasm, "Mr. Chante, why are you telling me this abruptly? Trying to move me?"
"No. I just want to say my family are not who I thought they were." Danis said with dull eyes on his weary face.
Angela didn't want to hear him talking, nor did she feel like facing him.
"Have you finished? Then I have to go."
"Having known I decided to split with my family, people closed to me tried to persuade me not to. And yet they broke contact with me under the threat of my family after realizing I had no intention to return home.
"Angela, I suddenly understood how you had felt two years ago: It's like the whole world shattered, and everything and everyone changed, like a nightmare, yet more cruel. No, maybe my pain was not a tenth as yours.
"Angela, I'm sorry ... really." Danis lost his former arrogance, conveying a feeling of depression from top to toe.
Angela looked down and stayed still for a moment. As she walked past him, she said drily, "Take care."
Although she spoke barely above a whisper, it sounded like a deafening roar to Danis. With a twinkle in his eyes, Danis held her arm and said, "You don't need to worry about the balance to the Chante Group, for I have taken a chance and called Jessica before she guaranteed actively that she would complete the payment before midnight."
The only one able to comfort him in the world was Jessica. She was not so pitiless as he had thought.
Angela stopped to push his hand aside. She sneered, "I had regarded myself the most stupid person, but I didn't expect that I'm not comparable to you."
Danis got puzzled, "What do you mean?"
"Do you really think Jessica made a promise out of guilt when you called her for this?" Angela asked.
Danis responded with his cracked lips quivering, "Isn't that so?"
"Of course not." Angela looked at Danis with her lips curved, but there's not a trace of a smile in her eyes. "It's because I threatened her, at noon."
Danis's pupils narrowed suddenly, his face turning as pale as a piece of paper. He struggled to keep balance with hands bracing against the wall after staggering a few steps.
Jessica ... Jessica!
"See you." Angela had intended to say "Farewell", yet she changed her mind at the last moment. She left Danis alone in shock before taking the escalator upstairs.
Finding out the phone call was from Violet , Angela called back.
"This time you have done a good job. Come back, and James is here waiting for you." Her tone softened a little in contrast with the past.
Angela frowned mildly, hung up after a response and returned to the company by taxi.
Adams was about to go out for some legwork when he came across Angela. He thumbed up to her and said, "Good job! How did you make the Smith Group pay?"
"Probably my pretty look touched Mr. Shaw's heart?" Angela smiled.
Adams stopped pursuing, noticing her unwillingness to talk in detail. "You have caused a sensation this time! Well, let's talk later. I have to go now."
"See you, Adams." Angela waved her hand to him, and then get in the elevator to Violet's office.
James was sitting in the office, saying something to Violet. It seemed that both were in a high mood. Violet said, "If I was some twenty years younger, I'm afraid I would be dazzled by your charm."
"Then I can only say luckily it didn't happen, or I would have to break your heart." James glanced at Angela unnoticeably.
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