Chapter 331 Cross The Rubicon
After a while, Lucia was out of her trance. "Are you serious? You are the landlord of this apartment?" She asked
again in disbelief to confirm it.
"Yeah." Raising his brows, August answered inadvertently.
Lucia felt that it was hard for her to accept the fact that the apartment she had lived in for months was his
property literally....
And, she couldn't help wondering the reason why he leased his apartment to her at an unusually cheap price.
Could it be possible that he had some ulterior motive for that?
The thought struck her great and she took a step back immediately. "Do... do you have any ulterior motive for
leasing me your apartment?" She asked him vigilantly.
August snorted at her words and got further close to her. "Tell me, do you think you are worthy of any special
intention of me?" Are you a raving beauty? Do you have a terrific figure? Or you are richer than me?"
A volley of questions from him choked her words for a long time.
Speech after a long silence. "If so, why you..." Lucia spoke passionately.
"Just because I was ashamed and uneasy of myself. It was just a little favor, you don't have to take it seriously."
August, saying, laid a glance at her swiftly.
With a complete somersault of her heart, Lucia tasted the bitterness in his words when she got his words
straight.
The "was" he meant referred to when they had just gotten divorced.
Lucia breathed deeply in order to hold the negative emotion hanging in her mind back. "How... how did you get
hurt?" She made an attempt to disguise her unease by changing the topic. "Why did you come to my home
again?"
"Never mind, I'm fine with it." Said August with studied understatement while he was clearing away the
bloody bandage. "And the reason why I came here today was that grandma was at home, I don't want her to be
worried about me."
"But why you don't go to the hospital?" Lucia blurted out.
After speaking, she realized that her question was too blunt to be polite.
Before she could say more, August, moving his lips and lifting his eyebrows, said with a smile flickering on the
corner of his mouth, "I'm the owner of the apartment, so it is acceptable for me to come here in an emergency,
right?"
His excuse left Lucia dumbfounded, which made her find no words to retort him.
He was right, she could not rouse the landlord out when he was injured.
While Lucia was still sinking in thought, August made it straight toward her bedroom. When she came to her
sense, he had already been in the doorway of her bedroom and was about to enter.
She got nervous at his words. Following liis gaze, she could see her suitcase lying beside her bed and there was
a stack of folded clothes on the bed. She didn't know how to explain it to him. She was packing her luggage this morning, after all, two days of the three days they had agreed had passed,
and it was time to pack her suitcase. But she didn't expect that August would come here surprisingly...
Lucia was having her heart in her boots. Suddenly, a perfect excuse slashed through her mind. Heaving deeply, she pretended that nothing had happened and said studied calmness, "Nothing special, my father is about to be discharged from the hospital. I'm going to go home for several days to look after him." Her words convinced August and dissipated the doubts haunting him. He then gave a little cough to attract her attention, "I've been very busy recently, but I'll go to visit Mr. Mitchell a few days later." Lucia nodded her acknowledyinent though there was a hint of hesitation crossing her mind as he said. At this moment, August's phone rang abruptly. He pulled his phone out of his shirt pocket, glanced at the
screen, and put it back without answering Then, he swiveled around to take his suit jacket and said to Lucia, "It's getting late, I gotta go." She almost couldn't conceal her relief when she heard that, "Ok, I'll see you off." Saying that she walked quickly toward the door and opened it for him.
August followed toward the door. Before he stepped out the threshold, he suddenly halted and looked back at
her as if he had got somethin' more to say to her. In the end, he opened his mouth. "Lucia, if you really don't
want to work in my company, I'll let you go as long as you sign the endorsement contract with Jonathan Black
successfully, or I could arrange other work you like for you."
Lucia was shocked a little bit by his words. "Well, I see, thank you." Her face lit up with a smile.
Witnessing August step away, Lucia closed the door and heaved a sich of relief.
It turned out that August had known that she didn't want to work at Lion Group, However, he didn't know that
what she really wanted was leaving: Austos City forever...
A mood of melancholy descended on her as she thought. At last, it was the unfinished contract that jolted her
out of sentiment. Tomorrow was the deadline for signing the contract with Jonathan Black! She should even
not think about leaving if she couldn't carry it through on time! No! She has to achieve it! She has to find a way to make Jonathan Black sign the contract! But, how?! Suddenly, a face struck Lucia and an idea caine to her mind. Her eyes were shining as she made a call.
There was no going back! Tomorrow she will cross the Rubicon and get the contract signed!
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