Love Slave to My Devil CEO Boss 18+ novel Chapter 299

“I’m fine. Thank you. How is everything going?” I asked.

Julianna must have been referring to the fact that I had to leave the party early. In all honestly, I was as fine as I could be physically. Emotionally, the problem that I was facing wouldn’t be over until this project was over. In a sense, I was just a victim of time and Ace’s merciless attempt to keep everything from me.

“So far so good. It could have been better…” Julianna mumbled before biting on her lower lip.

“What’s the matter?” I asked as I suddenly felt like something was off.

“Julianna’s just not happy with the viewing stats. There’s nothing to worry about yet, it’s still morning…” Ace replied calmly.

I turned to see him sitting at the head of the table in a relaxed manner. It didn’t seem like I missed out on a lot of action early in the morning. Julianna was clearly on edge but I was sure that a major part of that was due to her high expectations of everything rather than the actual performance of the commercial. If Ace thought that things were progressing well, then they must be.

“Is Jeremy in yet?” I asked when I failed to spot him in the war room.

“He came in earlier but headed out to buy some coffee for the team,” a member of Julianna’s team replied with a grin.

“Oh, I see…” I mumbled.

That reminded me that I bought coffee for Ace. He seemed quite busy reading something although the atmosphere around him seemed quite calm. I approached him before taking a seat next to his. Ace glanced over my way briefly while his lips curved into a little smile. He didn’t say anything to me, though.

“Here’s coffee for you and some food. You know, in case things get busy and lunch isn’t possible…” I told him before showing him a smile.

“Thank you, Rina. You’re a wonderful secretary,” Ace complimented me softly so that his words were for my ears only.

I looked around nervously to make sure that no one else caught what he had just said. It wasn’t at all like Ace to compliment anyone so sweetly like this. Thankfully, everyone seemed so busy with their work that no one paid attention to us at all. I let out a sigh of relief before turning my attention back to Ace who had started drinking his coffee.

“Is everything really, ok?” I asked without being able to stop myself.

“Well, everything seems to be progressing smoothly. The stats from yesterday aren’t bad if you ask me but Julianna has a different view on that. It’s just the first day so we need to keep on monitoring. Today is the second day but it’s still morning, we’re not going to see any solid trends until later in the day,” Ace explained smoothly.