Chapter 84 A little joy 1

"I'm almost done," Vivian replied. Grabbing the tray, they stood up and left together. Gritting his teeth together, he looked up, his eyes looking at Vivian's back growing smaller and smaller.

Not wanting to eat anymore, Jaime got up and went upstairs to his office. Vivian sat on the couch again, typing furiously. Without saying anything to her, he sat down at his desk, pretending to shuffle some papers while watching her from afar. The distance between them was like a mountain he needed to jump over.

A knock on the door interrupted his thoughts, he looked up to see Aiden enter. "The meeting is about to start, boss."

"Uhm..." He said and stood up, taking the document the secretary gave him. With a discreet glance at Vivian, he walked out, spending the next two hours extremely bored in the conference room. When she returned later that afternoon, Vivian was gone.

Packing his things, he drove back to the moody house, which stood tall like an abandoned mansion on a ghostly hill. The house