Heart shook hard, Jerry Xiao’s hand, slowly, struggling, fell on her shoulder. As if she could feel that he was going to push herself away, Zoey suddenly opened her mouth and bit his lips, hearing a muffled grunt from him, she raised her arms and wrapped them around his neck, and her small tongue followed the trend and explored into his mouth.
“Well …,” Jerry Xiao grunted hard and heavy, gritted his teeth, cupped her face and was about to push her away again.
But she wouldn’t allow it! Her arms tightened, stubbornly holding him firmly in place. Lips and tongue were more like a headless fly, sucking hard and recklessly on his lips, his tongue, as if to entangle all the emotions deep in his heart.
Jerry Xiao just felt his sanity, little by little, being drained away by this damn kiss. He forced himself not to respond to her, not to sense her sadness as he took a step back and leaned against the elevator wall to pull himself away from her lips.
But ….
She pressed forward again, her whole body pressed against his.
He cursed under his breath and inclined his face, but, only then did his lips and tongue struggle out from between hers, and the corner of his lips suddenly tasted a touch of bitterness, and she hugged him like that, wailing and sobbing, aggravated and frustrated.
In his chest, a sharp pain crossed. Her hurt and cut expression was clearly reflected in the bottom of his eyes. At that instant, Jerry Xiao only felt that all of his reasoning had gone up in smoke. With a single pick of his long fingers, he lifted her lower jaw.
Those eyes that glittered with tears struck him hard in the heart, and his eyes sank as he bent his head down and kissed her lips.
Her heart fluttered underneath her, and she cried out in excitement, opening her red lips to accept his intrusion.
They wrapped their arms tightly around each other and kissed like crazy. Spinning her around and pressing her heavily against the elevator wall, he gasped sharply, his burning eyes locking onto the small, tearful face as he murmured in pain, “Why did you even bother to come? Do you realize I could die at any moment!”
She looked at him with teary eyes, so close to each other that everything in front of her was a blur, and she could only make out her own reflection from under his eyes, which were filled with pain and struggle. “Let me stay by your side, you’ll be fine!”
He cooed, “Isn’t it true that, even when I have nothing left, you’re still willing to be there for me?” .
“Yes …” her eyelashes gently dropped, her hand fell a little, wrapped around his palm, lifted her eyes and looked at him firmly, “No matter what the future looks like, I’ll always be with you …”
His eyes flashed and his kiss forced its way back in force. She leaned against the wall and struggled to respond …
He’s, like, really busy. No matter when Zoey got off work and came over, he was busy with company business. Carrying his handmade midnight snack, when he arrived at the company, he happened to be back from the construction site, gathering everyone for a team meeting.
Zoey distributes the communal meal in her hand to the group, who are barely refreshed by the sight of good food after a busy day.
“It’s a good thing you’re here, Zoey… If it was up to the president alone, I guess everyone would have starved to death at the conference table by now.” A coworker joked.
“Eat more, there’s more here if you don’t have enough.” Zoey smiles broadly.
“You’re a real handful. Thanks to the president’s blessing!” Everyone exclaimed. The entire conference room blended together, sweeping away some of the lingering gloom from previous days.
Jerry Xiao just sat on the chair and looked at her with a smile. Her busy figure, in every corner of the conference room. Smile, gentle and serene, but on the contrary, there is a force that invigorates people. He stood up, walked over, dragged her hand, and walked towards the conference room.
Zoey froze for a moment, hearing everyone in the conference room laughing and joking, she was momentarily shy and embarrassed. Following Jerry Xiao out of the conference room, he pursed his lips, “Are you tired of cooking a midnight snack for so many people?”
“Not tired.”
His eyes, unusually burning.
“Zoey …” voice, also unusually sexy.
Her heart jumped as she met his deep eyes, “Hmm?”
“After this is over …” He paused and took a deep breath, as if he had made up his mind, “Marry me!”
Zoey was so stunned that she thought she’d misheard him, her eyes blinked and she could only stare at him for a long time.
Just now, it was her hallucination, wasn’t it!
“OH! Our president is proposing oh!” Someone came out of the conference room just in time to see this scene and couldn’t help but groan.
All of a sudden, the entire conference room of people embraced out. Zoey was dumbfounded, she thought he would avoid such a yell, but he picked his lips and looked at her with a faint smile, “In this matter, no matter how it turns out, marry me, okay?”
Those eyes, like the deep sea, so deep, so deep, but the outpouring of emotion is so strong. Zoey was so excited that she burst into tears, and everyone around her yelled rhythmically, “Promise! Promise! Promise!”
“Aren’t you screwing with me?” Zoey still feels dreamy about this sudden happiness.
“Now if you don’t say yes, you’re screwing with me.”
Zoey smiled and wiped her tears from her eyes, looking up at him expectantly, she nodded her head. jerry Xiao’s eyes deepened, and he opened his arms, holding her tightly in his arms.
“Zoey.”
“Hmm?”
“Today you promised me that in the future, no matter what happens, you can’t go back on your promise!” As if, afraid that she would change her mind, Jerry Xiao held her tighter.
Her face, plastered on his shoulder. In the presence of everyone, under the bright lights, she had a happy smile on her small face, “Never back out!”
“OH…” everyone yells in unison and applause is raised.
“Jerry,” she called him softly.
“Hmm?”
“There’s something I want to say to you. However, this doesn’t seem to be the right place right now.” Thinking of the child, the smile on Zoey’s face deepened a bit.
“We can talk in the office.” Jerry Xiao led her to go. Two hands, ten fingers clasped together, holding very firmly, as if it was going to be like this, holding each other for the rest of their lives, never to separate again.
Suddenly …
However, Ah Feng suddenly came out of the office with a slightly heavy face, “President, the headquarters called again! The situation is very bad, it must be answered by you personally!”
Jerry Xiao locked his eyebrows, and Zoey’s heart hung in the air. She patted his tense palm comfortingly, “Go get busy, I’ll wait for you outside.”
“After I’m done with my work, I have a meeting. It’s getting late now, you go back first.” Jerry Xiao turned to look at Zoey .
“I’ll keep you company.” Zoey shook her head.
“I have to worry for you when you are here. Be good, I’ll have Feng send you back to rest first, you have to work tomorrow.” He patiently coaxed her.
Zoey didn’t want to stay and cause him trouble, in the end she still nodded, her hand reluctantly wrapped around his fingertips, worriedly urging, “Then you have to promise me to rest as soon as your body can’t take it anymore.”
“I know. Work is no more important than the body.” He paused for a moment, and then, looking at her solemnly, “I’ll live to marry you!”
She smiled away, which slowly loosened her grip. He shook her hand again before finally letting go. Turning around, he took two steps out, then turned back around. She was still standing there, looking at him with a smile on her face, “Go get the phone! I’ll go first.”
Only then did he push his way in.
It was not until he had disappeared behind that door for several moments that Zoey drew back her eyes. Turning around, he inadvertently touched Feng’s complex, even slightly hurt cut look, and realizing she was looking over, he turned his face away in a hurry.
Zoey laughed and asked, “Does Assistant Feng have something on his mind?”
“No.” Feng shook his head in a hurry, “It’s just that there’s so much to worry about at work.”
He glanced at Zoeyagain, “You and the president … will actually get married in the future, right?”
Zoey cracks a deep smile and doesn’t reply, just says, “Send me back before he has to distract himself from taking care of me.”
Afon nodded and said nothing more, leading Zoey downstairs.
“If he’s too tired, Assistant Feng must remember to remind him to let him rest.” Standing inside the elevator, Zoey once again urged Ah Feng. Ah Feng nodded his head once again, “Don’t worry Secretary Baker, I’ll do as I’m told.”
Zoey took a deep breath, “I hope he doesn’t toss himself.”
Afon smiled slightly, “The president is going to keep his body to marry you, so naturally he will treat himself well.”
At the mention of this, Zoey smiles. Only after a while, did she ask Ah Feng, “Can I ask, for this project, how much money are you still short of now?” Ah Feng glanced at her, pursed his lips, and did not say anything.
Zoey smiled, “It’s okay if you don’t feel comfortable talking about it, just think of it as me asking off the top of my head.”
“Secretary Baker isn’t an outsider either.” Afon only spread out his palms and compared them, “It’s still short of that. It’s kind of a bigger problem this time.”
“Five hundred million?” She wrinkled her eyebrows.
Afon nodded, “That’s just the most conservative estimate, the finance department is still doing the tightest calculations.” .
Late Night.
Nabi Yan woke up from her nightmare once more. She unscrewed the bedside lamp, probed for a tissue, drew one, and wiped off her cold sweat. She tried very hard to put aside the nightmares, but her cell phone, which was placed at the bedside, suddenly rang.
She was almost white with shock and cowered, staring at the cell phone, not daring to answer it. On such a night, that sharp ringtone was like a poisonous snake wrapping around Nabi Yan’s heart, and she was shocked and frightened.
The phone, finally, disconnected. Before she could breathe a sigh of relief, it rang again. Her breath hitched as she thought of something, and she winced, only to reach for it.
“Ms. Yan, if you don’t answer the phone, I will really call the police!” Over there, it was the man’s rude voice.
“You dare to call the police! If you call the police, you’re no better!” Nabi Yan screamed shrilly. This dead bald head! I thought he was Sunny Qin’s man, so he must be reliable. But she didn’t expect that now that the police were looking for him everywhere and he had nowhere to go, he even borrowed that last incident to threaten her.
“I don’t care. Anyway, the police know that I did this thing, and it’s not the first time or two that I’ve been in jail, but it’s a beautiful thing to pull such a special thing like you as a back-up. It’s a pity that you can’t get the man you want even though you’ve gone through all the trouble. By the way, I forgot to tell you, if you go to jail, there will be more than one or two men to serve.”
Nabi Yan winced and gripped her cell phone tightly, her hands already in a cold sweat, “What do you want?”
“Come downstairs and bring 5W bucks, I’m short on cash these days!”
“You … you said last time, no more pestering.”
“I am not going to pester, after all, you a cripple, play is not much fun. However, but did not expect, you are still a virgin, there and tight and wet, can make my little brother miss very …”