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he quickly looked away, her long lashes fluttering twice, as if
she’d suddenly been hit by a blinding light.
“How did you… find out?”
“Mariah was looking into Nanette and found out by accident.
On the 12th, you told me you went shopping with Rebecca.”
No wonder.
Her reaction to the yacht dinner he’d prepared that day had
been strange.
Something must have happened before she came to see him.
Roderick’s heart suddenly clenched with a pang of pain, and he
regretted not asking what was wrong, not being there to face it
with Madeleine.
Whatever it was, he wanted to face it with Madeleine.
“Maddie.”
Roderick’s tone softened as he said gently, “Tell me what
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happened.”
“I…” S
Madeleine opened her mouth, her gaze falling to their clasped
hands.
The words were on the tip of her tongue, but she swallowed
them back down.
She was scared.
She remembered how crazy Zoe had looked, and a shiver ran
through her.
She took a deep breath, suddenly grabbed Roderick’s arm, her
eyes determined.
“Roderick, do you trust me?”
“Of course.”
Roderick nodded without hesitation.
“There are some things I can’t tell you right now, because it
might… hurt you. But please know that I like you, I love you, and
I would never, ever lie to you or betray you.”
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Afraid Roderick would get the wrong idea, Madeleine said the
words in a rush.
After she finished, Roderick’s eyes seemed to brighten.
“Say it again.”
“Huh? Oh, that there are some things…”
“The last two sentences.”
“That I could never lie to you‘?”
“The one before that.”
Roderick smiled, prompting her patiently.
Madeleine, momentarily speechless, simply stood on her toes
and answered him with her actions.
At three in the afternoon, a few managers grabbed their laptops
and were about to head to the conference room for a meeting.
Gerry stopped them at the door.
“The meeting’s been canceled. You can all head back for now.”
Everyone looked at each other.
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Why was it canceled?
Gerry had a secretive look on his face, but he knew exactly what
was going on.
Half an hour ago, he had gone to the president’s office to drop
off materials for the meeting and found that the president, who
was usually efficient and never procrastinated, had a pile of
work stacked up.
When he looked at the man himself, he was sitting at his desk
with a mysterious smile on his face.
He called out several times, but the president acted like he
couldn’t hear a thing.
A situation like this meant he was either seeing things or
possessed.
There was also another possibility…
Gerry turned and his gaze fell on the president’s secretary’s
office, where Madeleine was.
Only Chase could have this kind of power.
At that moment, the culprit, Madeleine, was holding a bottle of
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ice–cold Coke to her lips.
She was annoyed as she did it.
This isn’t right. Didn’t we agree that next time Roderick’s lips
would be the ones to swell up?
Was her technique that bad?
How come she was the one with swollen lips again?
Shaking the thoughts from her head, Madeleine rested her chin
in her hand and started reading the news about the North City
Science and Technology Park.
The bidding conference was about to start, and there had been
a lot of news about the Livingston Group lately.
#Livingston Group Stock Plummets, Cash Flow Shortage May
Force Withdrawal From Bidding#
#Livingston Group Pulls Out of North City Science and
Technology Park Project#
#Livingston Group President Refuses Interviews, Suspected Company Crisis#
Madeleine scrolled through them, unable to help but be
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amazed.
If she didn’t know that Roderick had leaked all this news
himself, she would have suspected the company was really in
trouble.
After all, when she pricked up her ears, she could hear a few
secretaries outside discussing it—
“I heard from Emil Kevin in accounting that there’s really a
problem with the company’s funds…”
“No way, didn’t we just sign a new project last week?”
“Haven’t you seen the news?
I heard the banks suddenly tightened their loans, and Mr.
Livingston has been meeting with investors all week…”
“And Chase doesn’t look right either. Didn’t you notice she’s
been covering her face ever since she came back from the
president’s office? She must have been crying.”
“The president has a pretty bad temper. You don’t think he took
it out on Chase, do you?”
“Chase has such a good personality, she definitely wouldn’t
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fight back. I feel so bad for her.”
Madeleine couldn’t help but let out a snort of laughter.
She was suddenly in a great mood. She stood up and walked
out, and the four secretaries immediately fell silent, their gazes
filled with sympathy and pity.
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