The Apple of My Eye novel Chapter 1938

"Reporters are always like this. Don't mind them too much!" Charles comforted Leila. He didn't get mad like Leila had expected.

Leila was scared that Charles would get mad at her, so she was relieved when she heard this.

When they returned to Dream Garden, they'd made their way to go up to their respective rooms.

Normally, Leila would insist on spending more time with Charles. However, tonight, she didn't. She said that she was tired and she needed to rest.

Charles figured that she was turning in early so she could call Ferry, so he decided to delay this. "Can we talk first?"

"Ah. Oh, okay..." Leila wanted to call Ferry right away, but she didn't want to miss this opportunity to spend more time with Charles.

Charles talked and talked while Leila listened tirelessly.

A good two hours had passed, and Charles was already thirsty from talking too much. Meanwhile, Leila was fidgeting as she kept glancing at her phone.

When Charles decided that it was finally the right time, he stretched and smiled at Leila. Then he said, "It's getting late. I need to go to sleep. Good night!"

"Okay, Charles. Good night."

When Charles had disappeared into his bedroom, Leila hurried back to her room.

"What the hell are you trying to do?" Leila spat as she called Ferry. She'd closed the door first before calling him.

Ferry was just about to sleep when Leila's call came in.

"That was just a warning. If I don't get what I want tomorrow, I'm taking you down with me," Ferry spat before throwing his cellphone aside and going back to sleep.

Leila grew furious upon hearing this; however, she knew she couldn't do anything about it.

The next day

As soon as Leila got up, she went downstairs and found Charles having breakfast already.

"Charles, why are you up so early?" Leila woke up worried as she knew today was the deadline. If she didn't give Ferry something useful, she was going to be killed.

"We're bidding for a project tomorrow, so I want to go to the office early. Hurry up and get ready so we can go to work together," Charles said casually as if he and Leila normally went to work together.

Leila took this to heart. She swiftly ate her breakfast after the servant had prepared her food.

In about half an hour, they were already on their way to work.

"Ms. Zhang, please, finish this. We're using it tomorrow. If we get this project, it could bring us over half a billion in profits." Charles looked at Leila indifferently.

When Leila heard this, she merely nodded. However, she rejoiced inwardly and thought, 'Isn't this the confidential document that Ferry needed?'

Half a billion was enough to make him shut up.

Leila carried the file out calmly and went back to her desk. Since there was nobody around, she dialed Ferry's number.

"Really? You found a project worth half a billion?" Ferry was surprised that Leila had worked with such efficiency. She already had results so early in the day.