The employees kept whispering to one another as they kept waiting for

Sheffield to pick up the phone.

But he didn't answer.

At Carlos’ prompting, Nadia called again. Still, no one picked up.

Everyone breathed a collective sigh of relief as the call was answered at the third time.

Sheffield's attractive voice echoed throughout the finance department.

"Gillian Clifford, I warned you not to mess with me anymore. Remember?

This had better be important. I don't like to have my time wasted." His voice was full of obvious impatience.

Gillian's face was as red as a tomato. She was so embarrassed she wished she could vanish into thin air.

After a moment's silence, the voice on the other end became colder.

"Don't call me again." "Beep, beep, beep—"

He hung up the phone.

Evelyn grinned. Sheffield had played his part well, though he had no idea what was going on here.

The voices whispering to each other became angrier. They didn't imagine

Gillian could be such a bitch.

Without giving Gillian a chance to do anything, Evelyn pulled out her phone and made a call to Sheffield herself.

The phone rang again. It was the same ringtone. But the difference was that Sheffield picked up almost as it rang.

The gentle and surprised voice on the other end was totally different from the previous impatient one.

"Eve, my sweetheart, miss me already?”

“Ahem!" Evelyn choked on her saliva and coughed.

Gillian was soon abandoned as a topic of discussion. Now all they wanted to talk about was how sweet Sheffield was to Evelyn.

Her cough was not loud, but Sheffield noticed it anyway. Immediately, he became nervous.

"Are you sick? You should take better care of yourself. Eve.. The staff didn't hear what he said next because

Evelyn turned off the speaker.

Evelyn put her phone near her ear and lowered her head to look at her shoes.