The male colleagues nudged Juanita, "The boss’s with Joyce, and you can rest assured."
"Hmm. That's true. It's a pity though; I actually would have liked to stay in the seaside town for one night. Listening to the sound of the waves and smelling the sea breeze, it would have felt so good." Juanita sighed quietly. The Capital was not near the sea, so she rarely went to the beach, and wanted to see what the sea was like.
"Hey, that's not right. If you went with Joyce, then what would you be? A third wheel? Boss is going, and what are you still thinking about?" The male colleagues laughed and teased.
"Hey, what's the relationship between boss and Joyce anyway?” A few new employees in the back poked their heads out of the aisle and inquired curiously.
"Yeah, I've heard a million versions of that! It's dizzying, what’s their relationship?!"
"You have all been in the automotive project team for a while, and you should know very well how things came about."
"Aren’t Joyce and the heir of the Henderson family a couple? Then why ..."
Seeing that the topic had gone off the track seriously, the colleague quickly spoke up to stop it.
"Stop, stop! This is a topic that is forbidden to be discussed in the group. Don't you all know that? Talking about the president in private, and if someone gets it out, you all just don't want your jobs anymore?"
The new employees in the back immediately shrunk back holding their breath.
"Everyone just stops asking questions. No one knows what's going on, including me." Juanita turned her head to look out the darkness outside the window, her eyes fixed and unmoving. She knew Joyce had something to hide, just as she herself hadn't told her everything.
She would not blame Joyce, and she just wanted Joyce to have a good life and then she was happy.
Nothing could be seen outside the window, and her own silent figure was reflected in the glass, and she suddenly remembered what the soothsayer had just said.
"The person you like, doesn't like you."
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