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    Picking up her phone, she saw a WhatsApp message from Kathie saying the furniture had already shipped from abroad and should arrive next week, the appliances would be delivered in the next couple of days, but the home theater she ordered

    would take another two weeks.

    Reading the message, Harriet replied to Kathie on WhatsApp

    with a smile, “Thanks, Kat. I just don’t have time these days. Maybe I’ll ask the property manager to keep an eye on the

    appliances for me.”

    Kathie replied, “Don’t worry! I’ve got everything arranged for you.

    I didn’t take your house key for nothing!”

    Smiling as she chatted with Kathie, Harriet’s door was suddenly

    knocked on.

    Harriet put down her phone and looked up. “Jacquelyn? My

    door’s not locked,e in.”

    Just earlier, when she went downstairs to get the basin, she ran

    into Jacquelyning out of her room, who asked if she

    wanted something to eat. Harriet said a ss of milk and a

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    small fruit te would be fine.

    Thinking it was Jacquelyn bringing her the milk and fruit, Harriet was surprised when the door opened and Ellsworth came in,

    carrying the milk and fruit te.

    Seeing this, Harriet’s smile faded instantly. She looked at

    Ellsworth politely and said, “Oh, it’s you. I thought it was

    Jacquelyn.”

    She added, “Thank you.”

    After cing the fruit te and milk on the table, Ellsworth

    pulled a chair over next to Harriet, then handed her the fruit

    te and milk.

    At Ellsworth’s gesture, Harriet thanked him politely.

    Sensing Harriet’s politeness and distance, Ellsworth pulled the

    chair from her desk and sat down across from her.

    Ellsworth didn’t leave. Harriet looked up at him, feeling a bit

    guarded.

    But Ellsworth didn’t do anything–he just sat across from her and

    nced at her feet.

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    Noticing this, Harriet looked down at her own feet, wiggled her toes in the water, and said, “I was on my feet all day, walking

    around. My feet are a bit sore.”

    Ellsworth looked up and said, “I saw you on the news tonight.”

    The room was very quiet, the atmosphere subdued. Ellsworth seemed quite proper tonight.

    Ellsworth said he saw it on the news. Harriet gave him a polite

    smile and said nothing more.

    Reaching for the milk, Harriet took a big sip, finishing half the

    ss in one go. Seeing that Ellsworth was still there, she said,

    “There’s nothing going on here. You should get some rest

    early.”

    After Harriet spoke, Ellsworth raised his right hand and gently

    wiped the milk from the corner of her mouth.

    Seeing how unreserved he was, Harriet quickly wiped her own

    mouth and, in the process, blocked his hand.

    The hand that Harriet had blocked hung awkwardly in midair for

    a moment.

    Ellsworth looked at Harriet for a while before finally withdrawing

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    his hand. Then he stood up and said, “Get some rest early.”

    Harriet nced at Ellsworth with an unreadable expression and

    nodded. “Mm.”

    She watched Ellsworth leave, and after the door closed, Harriet

    withdrew her gaze, silently took another sip of milk, and then

    continued chatting with Kathie.

    She hadn’t told Ellsworth about buying a house.

    For several days afterward, she went straight to the new house

    after work, tidying up, cleaning, waiting for the furniture to

    arrive, and adding some green nts to each room.

    Ellsworth, meanwhile, was away on another business trip.

    Harriet heard about it from Jacquelyn.

    Ellsworth had never taken the initiative to report his

    whereabouts to her.

    She never asked, either.

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    On Friday evening after work, Harriet was packing up to leave

    the office just as Reginald wasing downstairs.

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    As he came down, he said to Harriet, “Tomorrow night is Sir Leach’s birthday party. Let’s all go together.”

    That was what Harriet had in mind too–it would be nice to have

    So the next afternoon, after meeting Reginald and Jonas downstairs at thepany, the group headed over together.

    Reginald and Jonas were dressed in their usual work clothes, and Harriet was in her office attire as well. Walking behind

    Reginald and Jonas, she looked more like thepany

    secretary.

    Alvin’s birthday party was held at his home.

    When their car pulled into the Leach’s mansion, the area was already packed with vehicles. It took them quite a while to find a

    parking spot.

    Though it was called a party, it was more like a family gathering.

    The Leach family hadn’t invited too many people–just close

    friends and rtives, or colleagues from the research

    Otherwise, with the Leach family’s reputation and status, they

    would have needed severalrge banquet halls.

    So, everyone present was a prominent and highly respected figure in Amberville.

    Alvin had made it clear in advance that he wouldn’t ept gifts,

    so to avoid any awkwardness, no one brought any.

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