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“Hmm.”
After a while, James suddenly let out a very low, cold laugh. It was as if he had suddenly figured out something crucial, with a hint of
understanding flashing in his eyes, along with a deeper and more intense sense of disdain and contempt.
Acting.”
He sounded confident.
Trying to get my attention with such cheap tricks? “Isabella, your antics. are just too lowbrow!” “You think I’ll pay more attention to you like this?”
“Daydreaming!”
He opened the car door, straightened his suit and tie, and calmly sat back in the car as if nothing had happened.
It was as if by doing so, he could erase the fact that had made him anxious and damaged his dignity.
He was used to being high and mighty, never thinking he was wrong, and never believing that the woman who loved him to the core would leave on her own initiative.
The office,
Assistant Chen stood on the side, watching his boss with a terrifying look that seemed like a storm was about to come, and cautiously spoke again.
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“Mr. Keane, should we arrange the trip to the United Kingdom immediately?”
After all, Ms. Coffey’s current status is not to be underestimated. If she really wants to break away, I’m afraid it won’t be easy to regain with just these domestic means. His thin lips parted slightly as he uttered two words: “Not urgent.”
Immediately, he seemed to want to prove that he was really “not in a hurry” as he lazily leaned back in the spacious leather office chair, casually picking up a document from the desk and flipping through it.
“First, organize the minutes of this afternoon’s meeting and the latest developments on the land in the east of the city. Give them to me in half an hour. His voice showed no hint of anything unusual, as if the man who had lost his temper just now was just Assistant Chen’s imagination.”
However, the hand with distinct joints and long–term wielding of power trembled slightly when flipping through the pages.
Assistant Chen opened his mouth, but in the end, he swallowed back the words that had reached his lips. He respectfully replied, “Yes,” and
bowed as he exited the CEO’s Office.
Feeling anxious?
James’s gaze fell on the documents, but his pupils were unfocused. Those two words should never have anything to do with that woman, Isabella.
He did not love her.
He didn’t care about her at all.
She was just one of his many pastimes, a canary he had taken a fancy to and raised on a whim. If he got tired of her, he could discard her at any
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time.
The person he loved shouldn’t have been Jessie, right?
James kept telling himself this over and over again in his mind. But for the entire afternoon, all those dense contract terms and financial. statements turned into blurry symbols in his eyes, and he just couldn’t
focus on them.
He impatiently tugged at his tie and slammed the documents heavily on the table. At the evening social event, a few young gentlemen from Washington who were usually friendly with him formed a group to play cards. James, for the first time ever, did not leave halfway through, but instead drank one glass of strong liquor after another.
The amber liquid slid down the throat, carrying a spicy burning sensation.
He thought it would be good if he got drunk.
Drunk, that disobedient mind would no longer stubbornly conjure up the
hateful face of Isabella.
However, things did not go as planned
When he was helped into the back seat of the Bugatti Veyron by Assistant. Chen, he felt terrifyingly sober.
Outside the car window, the neon lights of Washington flowed like a river of light, reflecting bizarrely in his deep, bottomless eyes.
Those memories of Isabella, far from being blurred by alcohol, instead seemed to have been refined by the hazy lights, becoming even more profound and clear.
How long ago was that? He wondered.
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Oh, by the way, it was probably about half a year ago, on a rainy night just like this.
Isabella, that woman, usually went plain–faced, dressed in either black or white, as if she wanted to live as a shadow, so quiet that her presence was almost overlooked.
That night, she dressed up unusually brightly.
The wine red velvet spaghetti strap dress outlined her exquisite and graceful figure.
On ordinary days, her plain face was transformed into an exquisite makeup look, with red lips and eyes that shimmered.
She stumbled into the room from the entrance, carrying a strong smell of alcohol and sweet perfume.
James was sitting on the sofa in the living room, watching financial news and dealing with unfinished business. He furrowed his brow and looked up at the sound. The next second, he twisted his foot, exclaimed, and was about to fall onto the carpet.
Almost instinctively, he got up and stretched out his long arms, catching her just in time before she fell.
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