You Are The Apple of My Eyes novel Chapter 371

John wanted nothing more than to leave this place as soon as possible.

However, Richard was under the wrong impression that his boss still needed to talk to the other man, so he didn't start driving away until John shot him a sharp look. The tension in the air was so thick that one could cut it with a knife.

After realizing what was going on, Richard stepped on the accelerator, and the car sped away.

Noah stood by the road and watched them leave. Once the car's taillights were out of sight, he picked up his phone and called Nina.

"Nini, John is looking for you."

"No, he's not," a muffled voice came from the other end of the line, and Noah instantly knew that Nina was hiding under her quilt.

He coaxed, "Don't be too depressed. John is on his way to find you."

"Are you going to be his representative from now on, Noah?" Nina pulled down the quilt and sat up, disgruntled. "He only called two times. When I didn't answer, he didn't try to call me anymore."

Noah said, "He called you two times but you didn't answer, so he went to see you."

"Why haven't I seen him, then?" Nina stood up and went to the balcony. She peered at the entrance downstairs and added, "There's no one at the entrance right now."

Noah cleared his throat. He was sorely tempted to tell her that John had actually attempted to climb into her balcony and was brought to the police station under suspicion of theft, but he did promise John that he would not tell her.

John should tell her about it himself.

"Maybe he was delayed or something."

Nina's face darkened. "Noah, you suck at lying. Anyway, don't make excuses for him. I want to go to sleep."

After hanging up the phone, Nina buried her head under the quilt again. She forced herself to close her eyes because she needed to fly to Spring City the next morning.

John was silent. A storm seemed to be brewing inside the car, and the atmosphere was stifling.

"Mr. Shi, why were you at the police station?" Richard held the steering wheel in a vise-like grip, so nervous that he felt his palms grow damp. He couldn't just sit there and suffer in silence while facing John's coldness, so he had to make conversation.

Everything was going okay until Richard addressed the elephant in the room. John looked daggers at the man. "Where have you been? You are my assistant and bodyguard. Don't you know that you can't stay too far away from me?"

he asked through gritted teeth.

If Richard had been guarding John at that time, then he wouldn't have been dragged by someone to the police station so easily.

John wanted to climb into Nina's balcony so that he could persuade his wife to talk to him. He didn't expect he would be treated as a thief.

Besides, was there ever a thief who looked as handsome and rich as him?

He couldn't believe how blind the man was.

John had a tough time calming himself down.

"Mr. Shi, didn't you instruct me to stay as far away from you as possible?" Richard said in a trembling voice. "First, I retreated by a hundred meters, but you said it was too close. Then, then I put at least four hundred meters between us, but you called me to say that you could still see me, so I walked another four hundred meters."

John was speechless.

He did say that.

Embarrassed, John straightened his back and snapped, "Since when have you talked so much? You retreated as I told you to?"

"Yes." Confusion filled Richard's eyes.

Was there any other option?

John was his boss. He was being paid to do whatever he wanted. If he didn't listen to John, he would have been fired.

For a moment, John was at a loss for words.

He opened his mouth to speak, but no words came out. Finally, in his irritation, he snapped at Richard, "Drive faster."

Then, after a pause, he added, "Don't let my wife know that I had just been to the police station."

"Yes, sir." Speaking of Nina, Richard suddenly remembered something important. He took out a laptop computer with one hand and handed it to John. "Sir, the surveillance videos that you had asked me to check are in this computer."

John took the device and turned it on, his eyes scanning the screen avidly to search for clues.

His first suspicion was that his food or drink must have been tampered with.

He had ascribed the slight dizziness that he felt to exhaustion due to the long hours of working in the company and preparing for the proposal ceremony in Spring City. But he realized that wasn't the case.

In order to seduce Nina, he often exercised so that he could keep his body, especially his abs, in top shape. To match Nina, he even learned to fight.

It couldn't be his increased workload that led to his dizziness.