The Apple of My Eye novel Chapter 1981

The rest of the day remained busy and hectic for all the employees in the Cloud Advertising Company. Had it not been for Aron's insistence, Sheryl wouldn't have let Isla leave early.

"No, Sheryl. I can't just leave you here. I don't care what Aron wants to do with me, I will stay with you!" Isla said determinedly to Sheryl.

Sheryl was reading an agreement. It was the last round of checks. She looked up from the document and was amused to mark the determination on Isla's face. Sheryl shook her head and convinced Isla, saying, "You've already finished your work here, Isla. We're not even having dinner with any of the clients. You should be going back to your husband now. If you stay here, he may get angry at me. He may blame me for keeping you occupied."

Sheryl tried to reason it out with Isla so that she could leave the office for the day.

"Sheryl, you're teasing me now!" Isla pouted to show her annoyance.

"How dare I?" Sheryl giggled. "But if you still stay with me, I'm going to tease you for real!" Sheryl winked at Isla.

"Alright, Ms. Zhao, you should go down now. Aron has been waiting for you for quite some time. If you don't go, he may be coming up soon. Then everyone will witness the public display of affection between you two!" Phoebe chimed in.

Sheryl nodded to show her support to Phoebe.

"Look who's talking about public displays of affection? Aren't you doing the same with Josef?" Isla rolled her eyes at Phoebe, but then, gradually, her face turned red.

Sheryl and Phoebe exchanged glances with each other and laughed out loud unanimously.

Isla decided to finally rest her case and leave before being subjected to further leg-pulling by Phoebe and Sheryl.

Aron had a very tight schedule at work in the past few days. When he finished everything today, he rushed to pick Isla up from the Cloud Advertising Company, hoping to spend some quality time together with her. However, unfortunately, it had been a very busy day for Isla.

"Why are you here?" Isla blurted first as she met Aron. She feigned annoyance only to break into a smile moments later, betraying her outward facade.

"I'm missing you, Honey. But you don't look well. Is there anything wrong?" Aron sensed a trace of anger in Isla's demeanor. 'Who triggered her?' he wondered.

"Nothing important. Let's go back home now!"

"Sweetie, my mom is there to take care of our child today. We don't need to rush back home. Let's have dinner at one of your favorite restaurants. How about Japanese cuisine?" Aron grinned at Isla indulgently.

The warm grin on Aron's face expelled all Isla's uneasiness. She had felt guilty to leave the office because she thought that she should be helping Sheryl right now, instead of spending some personal time with Aron. However, on second thoughts, she felt it was appropriate to leave Sheryl alone for a while. 'Sheryl must be feeling depressed. Maybe she will get better if she immerses herself in some work, ' she thought.

Shortly after Isla left, Sheryl asked all the other employees to leave for the day. It had been a very long day for all of them. The work was more or less nearing its completion. All that was left was the final wrapping up, which could also be completed on the following day.

"Ms. Xia, let me finish my work!" Phoebe said to Sheryl.

"There's no need," Sheryl said, shaking her head. "Just go home now. Even I will leave in a short while. Let's carry on with the work tomorrow morning. It has already been a long day. Just go home and get some rest."

On Sheryl's repeated insistence, Phoebe packed her stuff and left.

"All right then. Ms. Xia, I'll leave now."

Sheryl nodded while still submerged in the files. After Phoebe had left, Sheryl fell into deep thought. 'When I'm occupied with work, I can indeed forget everything else.

I even forgot to eat lunch today. It was Phoebe who reminded me. I didn't think about Charles even once in the entire day, ' Sheryl pondered.

Sheryl heaved a sigh and focused on the file that she was reviewing to give it a final check. Then she packed her stuff and got ready to go home.

The moment Sheryl stepped onto the ground floor, someone rushed to her.