Chapter 110
It was the VIP ward at the Essence Hospital.'®
August sat by the bedside, patiently coaxing Jeanne. "Don't worry. I will stay by your side for the
surgeryâ ®
tomorrow." ®
Jeanne nodded obediently. She curved her lips and two shallow dimples showed on her cheeks. "I'm
a bit'®
thirsty, August. I want to drink some water.â August turned to look at the already empty mineral
water container, picked up the glass on the table and said softly, "Wait for me. I'll go get some
water."
Jeanne's eyes curved in a sweet smile. "Okay." ®
Seeing August walk out of the room, she sat up on the bed, turned to look at his phone on the table
next to her, reached out for it and entered the password to unlock it directly The screen showed
three missed calls marked as "Lucia". Jeanne's eyebrows furrowed as she stared at the three missed
calls.!
Her intuition told her that it was definitely a woman!'®
She bit her lip and secretly memorized the number. Then, she simply deleted the call record and put
theâ
After the surgery tomorrow, she would have to find out whose number it was!"
Throughout the night, Lucia had nightmares, waking up several times and each time in a cold sweat.
The next morning, when Lucia woke up, she looked at herself in the mirror with deep dark circles
under
changed her clothes and went out. What had happened last night was like haunting bad luck,
constantly lingering in her mind. When she got
to the company, she was still not in good shape. When Lucia made the wrong copy of the
document for the second time, Emma finally couldn't help but
say, "What's wrong with you today, Lucia? You're so distracted.â Lucia gritted her
well last night.â Seeing how preoccupied she looked, Emma sighed and didn't ask any minutes, so
get ready, everyone!"
When the message came in, many replies popped up in a short while."
Why does Mr. Stebbing keep coming to our Administration Department these days?" Following it,
someone replied anonymously. "What do you think? He must be here to see someone in theâ
Dame of workâ Lucia read the messages of the heated discussion in the group and couldn't help but
frown. Of course, she knew very well that the someone they were talking about was her. She simply
blocked the group messages directly, turned off the screen, put the phone aside, and got back'll to
work' ®
Although she told herseif not to care, she still had a lump in her throat.â ®
A short while later, there was a sudden noise outside and someone came to inform them that Mr.'®
Stebbing was coming to check on their work.'®
Lucia walked out of the office and stood in a line with the others."
symbolic tour, Ted asked some of them about their work at hand. "At present, I am in
charge of the project of Siemey and I am very happy to see that you are all'®
enthusiastic about it. I will promise you here today that if this project ends up as a
there was no bonus, they still had to do their part. Now, Ted, who had just been'®
a good thing for
them.â
Lucia took a deep breath, thinking that was the end of the tour, but Ted suddenly turned to Carter,
who'®
was next to him, and asked, "Who is working on the product quotation this time?" ®
Carter replied gently. "It's Lucia." ®
When Lucia heard that she had been named, she couldnt help but feel a little nervous.â
Upon hearing that, Ted raised his head to glance at Lucia, who was standing at the far side, and his
eyesâ
darkened.!
how well youâ
know about this project, Lucia?" Lucia bowed her head slightly and replied truthfully, âI have studied
the planning case of the project provided by the company and the specific information of the
partner, and I am planning to collectâ
for the quotation,â
it will be ready tomorrow if it goes well.â
Tomorrow?"
The look on Ted's face changed. He looked at her with a bit of contempt and his tone carried a bit
of ® impatience and anger. "Have you been working hard, Lucia? Do you need more than twenty-
four hours'®
for a quotation like this?" ®
The others were a little surprised to see his sudden change of attitude, which was far stricter than
earlier They were even more puzzled, thinking of the ambiguous relationship between Lucia and Ted
beforeâ
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Lucia looked up at Carter in surprise Carter didn't say that she had to finish it within twenty-four
hours when she was given the taskâ
Carter could certainly tell what Lucia meant. She looked at Ted with a smile. "Mr. Stebbing, there's
still plenty of time Ted frowned and asked grmly. So you can take your time without being efficient?
Why do you think the'®
company keeps you? What do you think the company pays you for? Carter was scolded and instantly lost for wordsâ
Lucia frowned and lowered her eyes without saying anything
Ted turned to give her a cold glance and ordered in a deep voice, "If you want to submit the quotationâ
comarrow, that's fine with me, butin order to fill up your working hours, I will give you another task.â
tjust s0 happens that no one s cleaning the break area next to my office. You have one hour to go and
clean it up This is 2 punishment and a warmingâ
With that, he raised his eyes to look around at al of them. 1, Ted, have always been far in rewarding and punishing And I'm aways strict and serious when it
comes to work, so ff anyone has a free day at work just come to me and I1l give you a task! After saying these words, Ted turned around and left without
looking back'®
No soaner had he left than sighs came from the public desk area. ®
Ted punished Lucia ater promising to give them bonus Was he trying to give them a warning or to make trouble on purpose and give Luca 2 hard time? They
were wondering why Ted treated Lucia lie someon he hated when there had been an ambiguous relationship between him and her, Had the two of them
fallen out?
Ted was doing that because of what had happened last nightâ
She gritted her tecth and bottied everything up in her mindâ Hearing that Lucia nodded at Carter and stepped away. She knew in her mind that the reason why
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