He heaved a heavy sigh and jumped out of the bed. He must go to work early and finish his stuff beforeing home. He had to do extra works tonight. Thanks a lot to his beautiful wife for depriving him of some rest time. Now his free time didn''t belong to him but to YS Group.
A yellow Porsche quickly followed a ck Spyker as it drove through Leng Group''s parking lot. It didn''t even slow down. Obviously, whoever the driver was, he or she got a swollen head.
Duke frowned. He was already prepared to open the door and get out. But when he spotted the fast luxury car approaching, he paused and waited for the car to pass. He gazed at the shining Porsche while wondering who would be so bold and unstoppable as to race and ignore hispany''s parking lot rules.
Rachel skillfully parked her car in ce, shook her wavy hair and then pushed the door open to get off her car. She was surprised to see Duke leaning against his car. She gave him a graceful smile before walking towards him with her hips in elegant swings. The beige tights she wore today brought out her best and made her look very sexy. She was nothing but a breathtaking stunner.
''Why it was her?.'' Duke''s face darkened at the sight of Rachel. Recognizing that it was Rachel, he bent down to get his briefcase from his car. He had given up the thought to teach the driver a lesson. He locked the door, ready to leave. He didn''t want any trouble. It was easy to convince Belinda to trust him but that didn''t necessarily mean that he would want more connection with Rachel. She was inly out of his interest. but that didn''t mean that Rachel also thought in the same way
"Good morning, Duke!" Rachel quickened her pace upon seeing Duke about to leave. Her high heels made loud tapping sounds against the floor with her every step.
"Good morning, Miss Qin." Duke was left with no choice but to turn around and greet back. Nevertheless, he continued to walk towards the elevator.
"Huh! What happened to you, Duke? Did you really just call me Miss Qin? We are so familiar to each other, it should be Rachel." Rachel couldn''t help butugh as she jogged to follow him.
"There is nothing inappropriate about me calling you Miss Qin while within thispany. Let me remind you of how you should be addressing me when we are here since you brought this topic up." Duke wasn''t putting on airs before her. He just didn''t want others to misunderstand their rtionship. Moreover, their story was history. Such intimate appetion was inappropriate between them, especially in public.
"I... I will keep that in mind, but Duke..." Rachel''s voice trailed off when Duke shot a cold re at her even before she finished her words. ''What happened to him? Weren''t we good with each otherst night? Did he and his wife have a fight yesterday?'' She wondered. ''Well, that would make sense if that''s really the case.''
"I don''t want my employees to mix work with any private feelings in thepany. I hope you can keep that in mind. You may get to your work now." Duke entered the elevator specially reserved for him and left without even looking back. He was cold to her as if nothing had happened between them in the past.
''Damn! His wife must have said something to him or else Duke wouldn''t suddenly mind how I call him, ''thought Rachel. ''Okay. Fine if you want to keep a distance from me. I will be ashamed of myself if I won''t do something to change your mind.'' A cunning smile rose on her face. If she didn''t mishear, her wife''s name was Belinda. She would soon get more information about his wife, like herst name, or where she worked. She was determined to make Belinda lose her job with her n.
"Good morning, Mr. Leng!" Janice approached Duke with her prying eyes as soon as he reached the top floor. She was excited to know if their CEO had a great timest night.
"Morning! Why are you looking at me like that?" With Janice gazing at him with a yful smile, Duke lowered his head and checked if there was anything wrong with his clothes. Nothing was wrong with his business suit. So what did that look on her face mean? "Share something with me." Janice looked at Duke with a mysterious grin. She assumed that there must be some breaking news that she could dig out from him.
"What do you want me to share on such an early morning?" Duke nced coldly at her. Then he pushed the door of his office open and walked in. He released the swing door from his hand like he usually did thenpletely ignored Janice who was following him. Janice, on the other hand, was already used to his habits and reached out to stop the door from closing. She had no choice but to bear this. It was unfortunate for her to have such a ruthless boss who didn''t know how to show care for his female subordinates. Often, her only choice was to be extra careful to avoid getting hurt.
"It is absolutely about yesterday''s party. Do you have any funny anecdotes to share with me, Mr. Leng?"
There was a saying went, "like father, like son." But it was different on Duke and Janice''s case. Their case was ''like boss, like assistant''. Janice had begun to like prying into other people''s affair and get gossips under her Boss'' influence.
"What do you think? I''ll give you a reward if you could guess what funny things happened." Duke took his coat off and casually hung it on the back of his chair. He undid the buttons on his cuffs, rolled up the sleeves then sat down.
"But I didn''t go there yesterday. It''s impossible for me to know if any funny thing happened. You obviously don''t want to tell me." Janice was already used to Duke''s personality as she had been working with him for many years. She knew that his cold appearance was just a facade and he was a soft-hearted gentleman inside.Belongs ? to N?velDrama.Org.
"Why don''t you go back to work since you already know that I don''t want to tell you? Do you want me to deduct your sry for cking?" Duke said seriously with a t face. He knew that his angry look would not intimidate Janice because she knew him so well.
"Huh! Why are you always using my sry to threaten me? Can''t you think of another trick to scare me next time?" Janice bbered and walked out of his office. She didn''t get any news from him and almost lost part of her sry. She didn''t feel worried though. The staff in the sales department would post everything that happened on thepany''s website anyway. She could just browse and get every detail of the party on the inte.
Duke felt that he could finally enjoy silence after Janice left. He didn''t expect for the ''sry deduction trick'' to still work on her after so many years. She obviously valued her money even if he was already giving her a high sry. Her sry might be lower than that of Aaron but it was still twice morepared with otherpanies.
Rachel received a lot of ttery from her female colleagues as soon as she entered the sales department. Everybody took her as the CEO''s new girlfriend after the party. They had assumed that their CEO and YS Group''s CEO already broke up as they hadn''t seen thetter visit that ce anymore. Was it the purpose as to why Mr. Leng arranged Rachel to work in thepany? Well, it could be that he didn''t want to attract a lot of attention, thus he made her start from such a low position. Many top executives failed to have the CEO join their parties before. Therefore, there must be a reason as to how amon employee did it so easily yesterday. With that in mind, most employees thought that their prediction was highly possible. It made them eager to y up to Rachel. Perhaps, she could be their CEO''s wife someday.
"Miss Qin, did you and Mr. Leng know each other before?" A woman who sat next to Rachel asked tentatively. She looked sure as if she already knew the answer because Rachel was very beautiful, not to mention, she was very sexy as well.
"Yes, we knew each other when we were at school." Rachel smiled gracefully. Her delicate makeup that matched perfectly with her dress made her look stunningly gorgeous. No one would think that she was already on her thirties as she looked a lot younger. Yes, she was like she was a sweet twenty.0000