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2024-10-29 19:42:56Hugo knew that there must be something wrong with his boss.
He lacks focused and sometime, laugh by himself.Maybe, he already lost his insanity, he thought to himself.
But, what make him look weirder was he didn't go out for several days and staring the windows.
"I thought you will be stalking Miss Lancia." Hugo said while Max reading the same page of a law's book for two hours.
"Watch your word, Hugo. I am not a stalker."
"So, you lost interest of her? Just like usual?"
Max crossed her leg and closed his book, "Why did you talk like that? I'm a faithful man who only devoted with one woman for the rest of my life."
Hugo rolled his eyes and starting to make another report since Max refused to do it. "You always seduce every woman clients."
"What? I'm never doing that! It's a part of the courtesy!"
The truth
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