Rose dressed quickly and left the house for work. She knew he would spend the entire day tracking James again. Someone needed to handle work, and that someone had to be her.
The moment she stepped into the company building, she felt eyes on her. Some workers greeted her with respect. Others talked. But no one approached her directly. She kept her head high and walked straight to Lucas’s office, now her responsibility.
She sat behind the large desk, opened her laptop, and began going through pending reports. But her mind kept drifting. She couldn’t concentrate properly. Her thoughts moved between Sophia in the hospital, Lucas running around with anger in his blood.
She tried to push everything aside and read the documents again, this time slowly. Ten minutes passed. Then twenty. She was
