"Boss, your former, former, former girlfriend is here looking for you. Will you see her or not?" The continuous days of overtime had made Julian Carter's temper turn a bit irritable. There were just too many tricky issues, each harder to deal with than the last. Damn it, it was as if he was cursed; there clearly were shortcuts, but they couldn't take them, all to preserve the dreadful pride of the boss.
"What's wrong? Is your brain not functioning well, and now even your tongue isn't working? Julian, since when did you have a stuttering problem?" Joshua Hughes sat at the desk, focusing on the documents, not even raising his head as he spoke coldly.
"To be accurate, she has quite a deep connection with you, boss. You should not be unfamiliar with Miss Evelyn Yates, should you?" Julian Carter's voice almost came out through his nose.
The man seated at the desk kept his head down still, his slender fingers lightly tapping the tabletop, lost in thought...
