Before she left, Raeleigh took a look at Lucy and thought that she looked rather comely.
Downstairs, Raeleigh asked Jepherson, "How long has Lucy been working for you?"
"Going on two years."
"She has a thing for Stuart?"
"Not sure."
"Then why are you trying to set them up?"
Jepherson pulled Raeleigh over. "Shouldn't I? Stuart and I are the same age, but there has never been a girl around him. He'll be thirty in another two years. If it were in the sixties, he would've already been a father to a group of children."
Raeleigh said nothing in response.
Feeling rather speechless.
Who said that he'd have to get hitched and start a family before he was thirty?
Jepherson took this too lightly. Love wasn't something the onlookers could simply meddle in.
Raeleigh found it hard to imagine the kind of journey someone like Stuart would have in his love life.
"Where's Mr. Jepherson?" Stuart returned to see the door to Jepherson's office wide open, so he entered. Jepherson and Raeleigh were nowhere to be seen while Lucy was cleaning up.
Lucy looked over at Stuart and said, "He'd left. Mr. Jepherson told me to have you send me home as it's late. But you don't have to; I have a car." Lucy said as she cleaned up.
Stuart wouldn't go against Jepherson's orders, so he did as told.
Stuart helped out then asked Lucy, "Are you going home for dinner or eating outside?"
"I'm going home to eat. My parents are waiting for me, so I have to."
After cleaning up, Lucy washed her hands and followed Stuart outside. Then she brought him to her car.
As they walked, Lucy kept telling him he didn't need to send her off, but Stuart kept silent, following her to the underground parking lot. When they arrived, Lucy intended to drive only for Stuart to tell her to sit in the front passenger seat while he drove.
As she stayed quite some distance away from the company in addition to the traffic jam, Stuart was still in the car at eight.
However, he wasn't anxious at all while Lucy had called her brother and parents. She seemed to have a lot of family members.
When she reached home, her brother was waiting for her at the door.
Lucy got out of the car and planned to let Stuart drive her car back. It wasn't until she looked back that she found the Richards family's car had been following behind.
"Thank you for sending me back, Mr. Robertson."
Lucy got out of the car and thanked Stuart. Stuart had intended to leave then, but the driver got out and went to him before he could.
"It's from Mr. Jepherson."
The driver handed the phone to Stuart. He answered the phone and looked at the person coming over.
"Lucy, who is this?"
It was Lucy's older brother, Chirsen. She introduced Stuart, saying, "He's Mr. Richards's assistant. Seeing it's so late, he sent me back."
"Is that so? Invite him in for dinner then. We're waiting for you anyways; we can't let him leave with an empty stomach."
"Oh no, I don't think he has the time..."
Lucy intended to refuse on his behalf, but Stuart returned the phone to the driver and said, "I happen to be hungry; thank you for the invitation."
Lucy didn't know how to respond.
Holding her bag, Lucy stood beside her car, looking somewhat lost.
He was just here to send her back. How had things developed into this?
Hearing Stuart's answer and Lucy's reaction, Chirsen had a hunch.
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