Cough…
Joseph noticed his absence and returned to his icy self. “You did a good report this time,” he said to several senior executives. “I’ll check it again, and then I’ll send it straight to the CEO, and you can all go home!”
Several senior employees nodded and did not forget to glance at Tina standing in front of the window on their way out. They did not know the woman’s relationship to Mr. Flower. How could she be able to walk around the office at will?
Tina said as the men left and turned to join Joseph, “Your office is so big, and the view from that French window is so beautiful.”
Joseph’s pen rotated gently in his hand, and his eyes rested on Tina. “You can come here often if you like!” said he softly.
“Well…”
Tina walked to a nearby chair and sat down. She waved her hand at Joseph and said, “I want to live a few more years, and I don’t want to die so young!”
“You didn’t see the way the women at your company looked at me when I walked in. They want to eat me alive.” Tina said, fingering the ornaments on the table.
Joseph’s eyes gathered slightly and he said coldly, “Is it as scary as you say? You’re not being paranoid, are you?”
Tina suddenly dropped down on his desk and smiled, “Looks like you’re popular after all! I just don’t know if you would date an employee of your own company!”
Joseph looked up at Tina’s clear eyes after reading the materials in his hands. Her smiling little face and tender red lips were so close that he wanted to kiss her.
Joseph’s Adam’s Apple rolled against Tina’s long blinking eyelashes. “Tina,” he said hoarsely, “are you enticing me to commit a crime?”
“Well…”
Tina suddenly got up and said angrily, “Your mind is so dirty...”
Joseph looked at her reddish face with a broad smile in his eyes. “Well, I was just kidding!”
Tina walked over to him and said, “That’s not funny!” Then she turned and walked out of the office.
Joseph’s smile deepened as he watched her walk out. He picked up his coat from the chair and went out, too.
At Ellen’s insistence, Rosemary and he walked side by side down the path.
Ellen’s long and straight figure under the mask attracted many girls’ admiration. She wondered if Ellen was handsome without the mask.
“May I ask you a personal question?” Rosemary asked, looking up at him.
“What?”
Ellen stopped and looked Rosemary in the eye with an inexplicable smile.
“Why are you wearing a mask?” Rosemary asked, her hands slightly clenched.
“Do you really want to see my face?” Ellen asked coldly.
The temperature of the surrounding air dropped several degrees. Rosemary looked at him, her head shaking like a rattle.
“You’ll know when it’s time!”
Rosemary looked at Ellen’s back and murmured, “Why does he like to act cool? It’s like the whole world owes him. I hate to see it. I don't know how Joseph became friends with him.”
“Ouch…”
Rosemary slammed herself into Ellen’s chest. She touched her forehead and looked up to see his cold, almost frozen eyes.
“Don’t you watch where you’re going?” Ellen looked at Rosemary with disgust on his face.
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