With You For the Rest of My Life

Chapter 12 Guilty

The next day, Rose was awakened by a series of knocking at the door. She rubbed her painful head to open the door. She did not expect that a strange woman was standing outside the door.

"Hello, Mrs. Gu. Mr. Gu and the old Mrs.Gu asked me to take care of your diet and daily life these days." The woman had her hair in a bun and didn't wear any makeup. She smiled at Rose gently.

Rose froze for a while and nodded. Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.

"What's your name?"

"Mrs. Gu, just call me Sophie. Breakfast is ready on the dining table on the first floor. You can wash and then have breakfast. "

"Thank you."

"You're welcome." Sophie had been taking care of people for a long time, so she didn't feel nervous when she saw the tiredness in Rose's eyes. She went to the bathroom of the guest room and fetched some hot water and prepared a clean towel. She soaked it in hot water for a while before she took it out and dried it. She handed it to Rose, bowed slightly and went for quilt cleaning.

The woman in the mirror had cried all night with her eyes red and swollen. No wonder Sophie handed her a hot towel to cover her eyes.

Rose forced a smile towards the mirror and covered her eyes with the hot towel. Until she felt that her condition was getting better did she put on her clothes and went downstairs.

The breakfast Sophie prepared was some light food, which was exactly to Rose's taste.

"Mr. Gu said you like porridge and flowering cabbage. So I made some for you. Come have a taste." "Mr. Gu went out early this morning. I prepared seafood porridge for you, but Mr. Gu said that you didn't

like it. So he asked me to make a new one," explained Sophie to Rose as she picked up the china bowl

"Thank you."

Rose took over the steaming porridge and held the spoon. She thought of what Xavier said to her the other day. Recently, the Gu Group did have a lot of trouble.

Her thoughts were interrupted by the ringtone.

Glancing at the caller's ID, Rose held her phone, walked to the balcony and picked it up.

"Hello."

"Mrs. Gu, I have prepared the divorce materials you want and the evidence has also been collected." The man on the other end of the line reported formulaically.

"Okay," Rose looked at her watch, "See you at three o'clock in the afternoon the day after tomorrow in the same place."

In the CEO's office in the Gu Group's building, Burke was sitting straight at his desk with a straight face, throwing the documents in front of his subordinates.

"Explain it."

"Mr. Gu, it's..." The project manager who was standing on the other side of the desk was already sweating. He bowed and complained in his heart.

The new CEO, Burke, was young but not easily fooled.

The Gu Group had many old problems, and now as Burke came, he would readjust Gu Group in less than a year, dragging these middle-aged men to work overtime together.

It was nothing serious to work overtime, but Mr. Gu was very strict on all the work.

The staff's wives and kids were waiting for them at home. The company had become their home since they always worked overtime. But for the high payment offered by Gu Group, he would have left here immediately.

"Give you one day and I want to see the latest improved results of this scheme tomorrow."

"Yes."

"Off you go." Burke loosened his tie, closed his eyes, rubbed his aching temples, and sighed heavily in his heart.

The problem of the company was more complicated than he thought.

The door of the office was closed with a click, and soon it was opened again.

"Is there anything else you don't know?" Burke thought it was a subordinate and asked impatiently. Opening his eyes, he saw the cheeky face of Xavier.

"Wow! I haven't realized that our Mr. Gu are such a horrible man!"

"Are you aware that your tone made me want to throw you down from 12th floor?" Burke sat back and lay on the leather chair to take a rest.

"Wait, wait, wait! Please spare me, Mr. Gu! " Hands folded on each other, Xavier pretended to be scared. "You don't know that your subordinate just went out, and his sweat has wetted half a shirt. He looks so pitiful. I heard from Cane, the assistant of the front desk that you reproved a little girl in the marketing department to tears and a strong man over 1.88 meters in the planning department yesterday. It's really frightening. "

With his eyes closed, Burke responded, "They are too stupid."

"Hey, would you stop being so mean?" Leaning against Burke's office table, Xavier was amused by his teasing. At this moment Burke's mobile phone on the table started to vibrate. Xavier took a look and saw the caller's reminder. His smile of teasing suddenly froze on his face. He stopped talking, touched his nose, and went to the sofa next to the table and sat down.

Standing up, Burke took up his phone and pressed the answer button.

"Hey, Amy, what's up?"

"I'm fine, Burke. I just care about you. You haven't come here since the last family feast. I just want to ask you if you are fine..." on the other end of the line, Amanda's voice was seducing but full of shyness and hesitation, "Will I disturb you if I call you in such a rush?"

"It's okay." Said Burke quietly. When he turned his head and met Xavier's disdainful eyes, he frowned slightly.

"By the way, I have always wanted to apologize to sister Rose. If I didn't go to the family feast last time, she wouldn't have left the party and argued with me. It was Amanda's fault that made Rose feel bad..." Amanda's voice was full of tears, blaming herself hardly.

When thinking of the baby, Burke's heart ached. He and Rose's child was not meant to be. It was just that the cause and effect determine, no one should be blamed for.

"Amy, it was just an accident. You don't have to feel guilty."

"Really? You won't blame me, will you? " Amanda cried with joy, "I thought my Burke did not come to me because he still blames me."

Burke remained silent. He did seldom go to Amanda's house these days. Even if he had a little free time, the first thing he thought of was not to go to her house, but to his home with him and Rose. He didn't even know why.

"When will my little Burke come to visit?" Amanda asked tentatively.

"Let's talk about it later. I'm a little busy with work recently."

After hanging up the phone, Burke looked up and saw Xavier standing in front of him.

He looked pretty serious, which was rare to see.