With You For the Rest of My Life novel Chapter 48

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.

At this time, Burke's face had already been very dark. As maids, they were all very careful, for fear that they would say something wrong and do something wrong.

Without asking more, Burke got up and left the table. He returned to the living room and continued to read the papers.

The clock in the corner kept ticking and the sky went dark gradually.

Sophie suddenly ran over to Jean in excitement.

"Mr. Gu, Rose 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.

When he heard that Rose was back, his hanging heart was finally at ease for the whole day. And his gloomy face was somewhat softened.

He closed 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 saw the familiar car body and license plate number, and he secretly clenched his fists.

Austin parked the car near the villa, distracted by the mess in his mind. He didn't notice that Burke was standing at the gate 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 low voice.

As soon as these words came out 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 it.

After a long while, she said slowly, "Just fine."

'Just fine? It means not bad? Was that the reason why she had been depressed?'

Austin smiled bitterly. He felt sorry for Rose, but at the same time he felt guilty and remorseful for not protecting her when she needed help most.