Sylvie relaxed, turned the stockings inside out, and put them on.
Sylvie looked at the things on the ground, took a deep breath, squatted down, and cleaned up the mess with pain.
Marley broke the ashtray; did he get angry? But why was he angry?
Was he jealous?!
How was that possible? He said himself that he didn’t like her.
Maybe this was the bad side of man. Even though that he didn’t like you, he still wanted to dominate you. You were not allowed to have a male friend.
Sylvie cleaned up the garbage on the ground carefully. She mopped the floor while bearing the pain. She did not finish until all the broken pieces were cleaned up.
She cleaned the office. It was spotless.
Sylvie took the food on the table. Since Marley didn’t eat, she planned to eat as her lunch.
“Sylvie, please help to prepare the afternoon meeting documents for the president! Please also write a welcome speech! ” Aila walked to Sylvie and handed her the files.
“Well! OK!” Sylvie nodded.
Aila looked at her, with blinking in her eyes, glancing at the door of the president’s office. However, she said nothing and returned to her seat.
Sylvie took the documents, turned on the computer, and began to write a welcome speech.
“Sylvie, are you OK with the president?” At noon, Sylvie did not go down to have lunch, Maisy asked her when she returned from lunch.
Sylvie gently said “no” with a smile.
She bit the cold sandwich and continued to deal with the paperwork after speaking to Maisy.
And, she was trying to learn shorthand. Three of them all could do shorthand, she was the only one who couldn’t, she should learn by now. She asked, “Is shorthand easy to learn?” Maisy was surprised to hear this, and asked “You don’t’ know the shorthand? ”
“No!” Sylvie shook her head.
“Heh, it is not hard. It is easy to learn. I will teach you! Well! Not teaching, just give you some tips! ” Maisy was very straightforward, and began to explain to Sylvie.
Sylvie listened very carefully and asked questions from time to time.
Aila and Daria were shocked when they came back.
“You work so hard!” Daria sighed.
Sylvie smiled.
At this time, her phone rang suddenly.
“Well! Sorry, I have to take a call! ” Sylvie looked at the incoming phone number which was Ryan. She pressed the answer key and said, “Ryan, What’s the matter? ”
“Sylvie, everything is OK. There is a European construction project. Are you interested? If you are interested, I will give you the blueprint. The profit is very good.” Ryan’s voice was hoarse, it seemed that he caught a cold.
Sylvie knew something went wrong with him in an instant, as if he had a heavy nose, “Ryan, did you catch a cold?”
“Well! A little! ” Ryan had a headache. He felt so painful. He even lost his strength.
Sylvie could not help but ask, “Did you take medicine?”
“No!” He barely could breathe. He even lost his strength to talk. It seemed like he felt cold from head to toes. He was in the bed at this moment. When he received a call regarding the project, he immediately called her.
“Take some medicine!” Said Sylvie anxiously.
“No, no! I’m not in the mood to take the medicine, plus I don’t have any medicine and I feel too lazy to get them! ” Ryan said, “If you are interested in the project, please log into my email directly, it contains instructions! You can make it. For me, I’m afraid I can’t do anything this week.”
“Are you having a fever? No one is looking after you? ” Sylvie asked.
“Well, I’m fine!” Ryan said again with a low voice.
“Then I’ll go and buy you the medicine now!” Sylvie said and hanged up the phone. She began to pack things, looked at the computer, printed out the welcome speech, and saved the meeting files on a hard drive. “Aila, here are the documents that are going to be used today. Please print them out and give them to the president. I need to take a half day off for a personal reason! ”
“Well!” Aila nodded and said, “You can put it on your desk. I’ll print it later.”
“Good!”
“Hill, who has a cold?” Maisy could not help but ask.
“My friend!” Sylvie smiled and said, “See you, I have to go now!”
Sylvie bought medicine and directly went to Ryan’s place by taxi. He actually had a house in Sunshine Residential Area just like her, and it was on the opposite side of her building.
Sylvie knocked on his door. He opened the door. She saw him wearing slippers, staggered, and held the door. It seemed that he was really sick, and his face turned so red.
“Ryan, why don’t you go to the hospital when you have a cold?” Sylvie asked him. She felt something was wrong. His cheeks were red abnormally. Although his eyes were bright, his body seemed to be shaking.
“Ryan, you’re having a fever?” She reached out and touched his forehead, and it was very hot.
“Well, a little bit.” By mentioning it, Ryan felt tired, he forced himself to look alive and said, “Sylvie, I am too tired, I am going to lie down!”
“Take the medicine first! You have not eaten yet, have you? ” Sylvie entered the room and closed the door, then changed shoes. She walked into the room in his slippers.
“No, I feel sick, and I can’t eat anything!”
“I’ll make you some soup. You should take the medicine after having the soup! Taking medicine on empty stomach will hurt your stomach! ” She said. Then she went into the kitchen.
Ryan smiled and said nothing. He had no strength to say anything. He went directly to the bedroom and fell on the bed. He fell asleep until Sylvie took a bowl of soup to the bedroom. He wrapped himself with the quilt. He seemed like a child. His face was extremely red.
“Ryan, Ryan?” Sylvie touched him, “Ryan, what do you think? Should I take you to the hospital? ”
“No!” Ryan was asleep until she pushed him. He held her hand drowsily and wrapped her hand tightly. He said with a long sigh of relief. “Sylvie, I’m ok, don’t make any noise. I just want to sleep.”
Before, in the United States, when he had a cold, he didn’t take any medicine or any food but just sleep.
When she had a cold, he tried to make porridge and talked her into having the food. Thought back of the four years of life in the United States. She should thank him for taking care of her in foreign countries.
“Ryan gets up and eats something, then takes medicine!” Sylvie grabbed his hand, pulled him up, and put the quilt behind his back for him to lean on.
Ryan pushed himself up and nodded with difficulty “yes”.
There was no time to make porridge. There was nothing in the refrigerator but eggs.
Sylvie made an egg soup with a very plain taste. She said, “Come on, have some soup first! ”
Ryan sat up to have the soup. Sylvie passed him water with antipyretic drugs and help him to take them.
Maybe it was a very bad cold. He had no strength at all. He was lying in bed, and his body temperature was getting higher and higher. It seemed that the anti-fever medicine did not work.
Sylvie had to find some ice in the refrigerator, and wrapped the ice with a towel, and put it on him. Then she had to use alcohol on his arm and get rid of the fever.
His fever got relieved after one hour of tossing and turning.
He even caught a cold while in summer and it was so bad. He had a good physique, he often exercised, how could he catch a cold so bad? Sylvie muttered.
The phone rang, and she ran to answer the phone immediately. Maisy’s voice was on the other side, “Sylvie, how come you did not save the documents on your hard drive? Do you have copies on your computer? The president needs it. Aila said you didn’t save it. What should I do? The president is angry! I am calling you from the bathroom. I can’t talk more. Just come back quickly!”
“How could that be?” Sylvie whispered, “I saved it!”
Maisy suddenly hangs up the phone, which meant it must be someone who went into the washroom. She clearly remembered the document was stored in the hard drive.
Aila said no? Sylvie frowned up.
All of a sudden, the phone rang again. This time, it was Marley. He said, “Sylvie, where are you?”
“I…” she paused and looked at Ryan’s bedroom. He just got a little better. What if he had high fever again after she left? She was really worried about leaving Ryan here by himself. What if the fever or the cold got serious?
When She was in a foreign country, Ryan once left his job to take care of her. He even lost millions of dollars for design remuneration. Now, she should take care of him!
“I’m outside!” Sylvie answered.
“Sylvie, you ran out during working hours. Come back immediately!”
“I can’t go back!” Sylvie said, “I’m sorry.”
“Damn it! I have a meeting this afternoon. Where are the documents I need? ”
His tone made her very uncomfortable, and she said with a temper, “I saved it in the USB flash drive. I don’t know where Aila put it. Also, you asked Aila to prepare your document. She asked me to help make it. I have made it and gave it to her. I asked for leave today, sorry! I don’t want to fight. If you have something to say, say it tomorrow!” Sylvie didn’t give Marley the chance to talk. She hangs up the phone.
She turned off the phone.
When Marley called again, it directly went to the voicemail, “The phone you dialed has been turned off!”
“Damn it” Marley’s face was very frightening.
“Sylvie won’t come back?” Tyler frowned and asked, “I am a little surprised. Sylvie is not like that kind of person!”
“To the meeting room!” For the first time, Marley was not prepared before he went into the conference room.
During the conference, he didn’t say a word, just listened.
The heads of all departments did not dare to talk nonsense. After reporting for a while, Marley said, “Keep up with what you do then!”
He went back to the president’s office.
When Marley passed by Aila, he asked, “Aila, you said that the document that Sylvie gave you was not saved, right?”
Aila stood up with a little bit nervous, but she tried to stay calm and said, “Yes!”
Marley squinted his eyes and seriously looked at her face, said in a cold voice, “Will she make such a low-level mistake?”
***
“President, I don’t know!” Aila replied, “I didn’t see the document when I was ready to print!”
This intense atmosphere was suffocating, and everyone dared not say a word.
Marley kept silent for a moment and went into the president’s office.
Tyler glanced at Aila meaningfully and also walked in.