“Exactly! We’ll be sure to offer you all the help you need, no matter what it takes.” Jared promised, clenching his fists.
“Come on. Stop making fun of me!” Sean tried to dismiss his friends’ encouragement with a bashful look on his face. “Miss Meyers isn’t going to even look at me.”
“But I saw the affectionate look on her face this morning when she looked at you. Trevor expressed his envy toward Sean.
On the other hand, Richard was standing at the door outside the meeting room, quietly listening to the conversation among his subordinates, until he heard a curious voice from behind him. “Why didn’t you go inside, Richard?” Willy asked.
It was then that Richard finally opened. the door and startled the three of them, making them feel annoyed about the unpredictable appearances that their superior always made.
“What were you guys talking about?”
Willy asked out of curiosity. “Is there anything new about our assignment?”
“Oh, nothing. We were just talking about Miss Meyers and Sean,” Jared blurted out.
It was then that Trevor quickly shifted his gaze to their boss as he noticed the nonchalant expression on his face. Then, Richard turned around and wrote something on the whiteboard, revealing his muscular back as he faced away from them.
“You are only allowed to talk about work here. Nothing else more, including personal matters.” The man wrote on the whiteboard and made his order heard.
In that instant, all four men kept their mouths shut, feeling helpless yet surprised that their boss demanded them to keep their light-mindedness in check, even though that was what they had been doing all the while.
For that, they all proceeded to focus on their job without saying a single word more. When it was Sean’s turn to present his job, he made a trivial mistake but was treated harshly by Richard with some mean criticisms. Although Sean was upset about that, he kept his feelings to himself, thinking his
mistake wasn’t so se severe that he deserved to be meanly criticized.
On the other hand, Angela was sitting beside a fountain while fiddling with the grass in a bored manner. At the same time, she shifted her gaze everywhere, from the sky to the grass, until her eyes fell upon the water where a little fish was swimming around her feet.
At that instant, she was tempted to catch it out of a whim, so she extended her arm to reach it. However, the fish looked as if it was trying to toy with her, dodging Angela’s catch and forcing her to bend over for better reach.
Nevertheless, she suddenly lost her footing and accidentally plunged into the depths of the pond. “Ah…” The lady found herself drenched from head to toe in a disheveled manner.
At the same time, she lost interest in catching the fish, but when she looked back at it in the water, she felt. as if she had been tricked by the animal.
This fish was trying to fool me. Just wait and see. I’ll be back with a net next time,” Angela said in frustration and made her way toward the base’s entrance.
Since Angela was wet, she was desperate to get a shower. Nonetheless, when everyone saw her state, they all asked her what had happened in a concerned manner, to which she explained that she had just fallen into the water.
While Angela later returned to her room to get changed, one of Richard’s subordinates entered the meeting room to deliver some documents and casually told the five men about what he had just heard. “Miss Meyers fell into the water just now,” he stated casually.
