173: Chapter 173: Concern 173: Chapter 173: Concern The next day, Jas Brown arrived at the company and the office phone wouldn’t stop ringing, all from people who had seen the job advertisent on TV and were calling to apply.
Jas could only answer each call one by one.
He originally thought that as an HR manager who wasn’t involved in operational tasks, he would have the most leisurely job in the company.
Now he realized that not only was the job not leisurely, but it was also quite busy.
He was so busy that the phone hadn’t left his ear all morning.
Looking at the ti, it was already eleven-thirty.
Jas pulled the phone cord out.
Now, even if soone called, he didn’t want to answer it.
He was truly exhausted.
At that mont, his cell phone started ringing.
Jas frowned but still answered the call when he saw it was from Gina Lopez.
“Why can’t I get through to your office phone?” Gina asked.
“Big sis, my phone has been like a hotline all morning; it never stopped ringing.
It’s a miracle you got through.”
Hearing Jas’s hoarse voice, Gina rembered that these were the days of recruitnt.
As the HR manager, Jas definitely wouldn’t have any downti.
She felt sowhat smug and said, “Serves you right for trying to be lazy.
If you were the president, you wouldn’t have so many problems, would you?”
Jas rolled his eyes and said, “Mr.
Lopez, what do you want?
I don’t want to talk much now, my throat is smoking.”
“Alright, just wait then.
Sunny and I will co out with you for lunch,” Gina said and then hung up the phone.
Soon after, Sunny Nguyen and Gina Lopez ca to find Jas.
As soon as they entered, Sunny imdiately asked with concern, “Is your throat feeling any better?”
Jas helplessly shrugged his shoulders and with a raspy voice said, “You tell .”
Sunny instantly said compassionately, “How can you be so exhausted?
Buy so dicine later.”
Gina took out a box of dicine from her bag and threw it to Jas, saying, “Suck on two of these first,” and then she headed toward the door.
It was quite normal for Gina, the boss, to care about her employees.
Offering gold throat lozenges to any employee who had a hoarse voice was a nice gesture that could also help bridge the relationship between her and the staff.
However, because yesterday at her house she’d made a move to be with Jas, providing dicine today seed rather awkward as if she was trying to pursue him.
Sunny, however, did not notice Gina’s discomfort and quickly said, “Quickly suck one.” In front of others, she was embarrassed to show this level of care for Jas, but in front of Gina, she had no such reservations.
At Gina’s house, she was already living with Jas, so this was nothing.
Jas nodded, took out a lozenge, and put it in his mouth—it was indeed quite soothing.
The three of them then left the office.
By now, everyone else had gone out to lunch since the cafeteria wasn’t open yet, so everyone had to go out.
Because the three of them ca out a bit later, they didn’t run into anyone else.
Jas drove Gina’s car and chose a nearby Western restaurant.
After sitting down, the waiter ca over.
Both Sunny and Gina were holding the nu, looking at Jas, and said in unison, “What do you want to eat?”
The waiter was taken aback.
There were many people coming here to eat, and it wasn’t uncommon to see a man dining with two won, but to see two beautiful won asking this man so attentively was a first for the waiter.
He imdiately envied Jas, thinking this man must be wealthy and highly capable, managing to bring two won out together so harmoniously.
Sunny and Gina didn’t realize that a simple inquiry had sparked such thoughts in the waiter.
Although Gina had said she wanted to be with Jas, in the absence of her sister and with Sunny, a woman involved with Jas, present, she just let Sunny help Jas order.
During the al, Sunny and Gina, both career-minded strong won, discussed company matters while eating, while Jas focused on his food.
“I can’t eat anymore.
You have the rest,” said Sunny, pushing her half-finished steak towards Jas.
Jas didn’t hesitate and just started eating.
Gina also had half a steak left, but she couldn’t offer it to Jas.
Although dining with him wasn’t unusual, sharing her leftovers with Jas felt oddly intimate.
She wasn’t close enough to Jas to do that, and besides, she didn’t want Sunny to notice—it would be awkward working together afterwards, as if she was competing for a boyfriend.
She was only trying to get her sister Grace to back off, not genuinely trying to be with Jas.
Unexpectedly, after Jas finished Sunny’s portion, he looked at the steak in front of Gina, clearly still hungry.
Gina noticed but pretended not to see.
“Hey, Boss Lopez, are you going to eat your steak?” Jas didn’t think too much about it.
This steak was quite delicious, and having been very tired this morning, his appetite was wide open.
“Oh… I’m not eating anymore, if you’re still hungry…”
Gina ant to say she would order another portion for him, but Jas had already reached over and pulled her steak towards himself, then started eating heartily.
Sunny Nguyen glared at Jas Brown and said, “Are you even functional anymore?
Eating my food is one thing, but rushing to eat what Mr.
Lopez has had?
Don’t you know that only people who are close should eat leftovers from a girl?”
Gina Lopez was even more embarrassed and hastily said, “It’s okay, after all, I just cut it to eat.” Now, this was the only excuse she could comfort herself with.
Jas Brown nodded repeatedly and said, “Exactly, exactly, how could I not know that?”
Looking at Gina Lopez, Sunny Nguyen then chuckled lightly and said, “I guess I’m overthinking it.
You two have been together so long, such a trivial thing really doesn’t matter.”
Gina’s face turned red, and she hurriedly said, “Sister Sunny, don’t talk nonsense.
When we’re together, we’re just pretending, nothing real is happening.”
“Really?
Then why are you blushing?” Sunny blinked and leaned in close to whisper in Gina’s ear, “Even when pretending, you have to show so intimacy, right?”
Gina pushed Sunny Nguyen away, slightly annoyed, and said, “Sister Sunny, you know it’s just to fool my parents and sister, it doesn’t an anything.
Besides, it’s all in the past now, so stop teasing about it.”
“Alright, alright, I’ll stop talking about it.”
Jas Brown had been secretly observing Gina Lopez.
Today, the Boss seed to have a slightly girly deanor, an attitude that usually appears when a woman is interested in a man.
Could it be that Gina really was considering being with him?
“By the way, Jas, when are you going to bring your girlfriend over for us to et?” Sunny Nguyen shifted the topic to Jas.
Jas Brown was also keen on bringing up Emma Campbell, to probe Gina’s real thoughts.
Not that he had any feelings for Gina, but he always felt sothing odd about this affair, so he wanted to get to the bottom of it.
Smiling, he said, “She’s usually at school and only cos back on weekends.”
Sunny Nguyen promptly said, “Then bring her over next weekend for us to see.”
Jas nodded and said, “No problem, I’ll bring her next weekend for you to et, but don’t scare her, being a CEO and a director yourselves.”
Gina Lopez glared at Jas Brown and said, “Are we that fierce?”
Jas chuckled and said, “It’s not about being fierce; it’s about your presence.
You both are such VIPs.
My girlfriend is just a young girl who hasn’t seen much of the world; how can she compare to you?”
Curiously, Sunny asked, “I’m quite puzzled, when did you start dating a college student?
Didn’t you say before that you didn’t want to get into a relationship so soon?”
Gina Lopez also stared at Jas Brown, curious about this matter as well.
During his ti in YODC City, he had spent most of his ti with her; she had no idea he had sohow gotten a girlfriend, and a college student at that.
Jas Brown looked at Gina Lopez and smiled, “I should really thank Douglas Smith for that.
He got into the warehouse, and it was there I t Lemon.
Mr.
Lopez, you must rember when I borrowed money from you?”
Gina nodded and said, “So, you were borrowing money for her then.”
“Yes, she ran into so trouble at the ti and urgently needed money, so I helped her out.
She was very grateful and started coming over on the weekends to help tidy up the place.
After a while, I felt she was quite nice, and we ended up together.”
Jas Brown didn’t ntion that Emma Campbell had been selling herself to save her father, although he didn’t think she had done anything wrong.
Still, it wasn’t sothing glorious, and he didn’t want anyone to look down on Emma.
Feeling a bit bitter, Gina said, “It seems then that I also played a part in you two getting together.”
Jas nodded repeatedly, smiling, “Yes, if Mr.
Lopez hadn’t helped then, we might not have gotten together.”
Gina Lopez glared at Jas Brown and said, “Then you’d better bring her over to et .”
“Alright, alright, I’ll bring her over this weekend.
But don’t tell her I’m a CEO or anything; it might scare her.”
“What if I do tell her?” Gina Lopez teased, arms crossed and a playful smile at the corners of her mouth.
Jas Brown rolled his eyes and said, “Mr.
Lopez, you wouldn’t be that cruel, would you?”
Sunny Nguyen chuckled lightly and said, “But saying you’re a CEO.
That would make you seem more impressive, more capable of attracting girls, right?”
“I’ve already settled down; no more chasing girls,” Jas Brown said with an embarrassed smile, seemingly also telling Sunny Nguyen that their flirty relationship had ended.
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