Candice froze.
He clearly said he’d been "obsessing over it," but to her ears, it sounded more like… he’d been missing her.
Her cheeks flushed red.
“Uh… thank you for your concern, Mr. Clemens.”
“I care about all my subordinates.”
Charlie’s expression was calm and composed.
Jerry blinked: All of them? Really?
The atmosphere suddenly became oddly awkward, a delicate tension filling the room…
In the end, it was Jerry who broke the silence, smiling as he continued discussing the factory issue.
“Miss Hale, you’re sharp—your guess was about eighty percent correct. Very impressive.”
“What’s the other twenty percent I got wrong?”
Candice asked curiously, eager to move past the weird moment.
“You mentioned the two ghost workers—well, they really were ghosts. They’re dead. Edward killed
