A Love Trap

Chapter 40 Raymond Was Back

The minute the plane landed, Raymond felt a sense of urgency to check out and head to the company. All this time, while traveling he was bothered by something. Unable to put himself with the odd feeling, he himself couldn't explain why he was feeling that way.

Upon checking out, Raymond walked out of the airport with a suitcase.

His assistant who was there to pick him up took his suitcase and greeted him, "Mr. Luo."

Recently, Raymond always felt like something was going to happen. The unfamiliar hunch was way lesser when he was away on official business. But now that he was home, the gut feeling grew even stronger.

"Has anything happened in the company while I was away?"

In the car, Raymond asked his assistant who was sitting in the front seat.

The assistant had been loyal to him from the start. Raymond knew he could be trusted, even with confidential personal matters. So this time, he deliberately left the assistant in the Luo Group so that someone could report to him in case Ashley would be bullied.

Despite knowing his boss for a long time, the assistant was only vaguely aware of what was between Raymond and Ashley. That was the reason why when Raymond asked him to look after Ashley, he thought it was a difficult task.

Turning back and facing his boss, the assistant didn't know how to spill the beans to Raymond. He tried to open his mouth but no words came out. Then he just wiped cold sweats from his forehead and coughed to distract Raymond for a while.

After thinking for a moment, he said with a shaky voice, "The company has no big problems. There's only one thing... Miss Mu... Miss Mu resigned." He thought that was the news Raymond wanted to

hear. Unfortunately, he couldn't give more details of Miss Mu's resignation because he just knew it lately, too.

Although Raymond left him at the company to take care of Ashley Mu, he still had a lot of work to do and couldn't follow her for 24 hours. After all, he couldn't possibly know everything that happened in the company.

"You mean Lena Mu resigned?" Raymond shifted his gaze from the car windows and looked at his assistant, confused.

Ashley's and Lena's positions in the Luo Group were almost the same. Lena was the daughter of the Mus and Raymond's fiancée as well. So when she wanted to enter the company at that time, Raymond couldn't refuse. Worst was, it was his mother who let Lena enter the company. Raymond was left with no other choice but to agree with their decisions.

Raymond had always thought Ashley would not resign, knowing her determined spirit. So he just felt that the "Miss Mu" in the assistant's words referred to Lena.

'However, didn't Lena desperately want to enter the Luo Group? Why would she resign now?' Raymond thought.

The assistant realized Raymond had got it wrong. He swallowed a lump and explained, "No, not Lena Mu, but Ashley Mu."

"What? You mean Ashley resigned?" gasped Raymond in disbelief just after the assistant stopped talking. He looked at him incredulously and his voice increased to a roar.

"Ye... Yes, sir." Although the assistant did not understand why Raymond was so furious, he still nodded honestly.

Personally, he thought the relationship between Raymond and Ashley was strange. But Ashley didn't want to let anyone know about her relationship with Raymond before, so she hid it very well. The assistant thought they were good friends and didn't think much about it at all.

"Drive to the company now!"

While the assistant was still confused, he just followed Raymond's anxious command.

"But Mr. Luo, you are just back. Don't you want to take a rest first?"

the assistant suggested out of kindness. Because Raymond had been on a business trip for so long and hadn't got over his jet lag yet. In addition, he had just negotiated a large deal. So he must be exhausted now.

But Raymond didn't seem to hear it. He took out his cell phone and dialed the same number again and again.

"Sorry, the subscriber you dialed is power off. Please redial later...

Sorry, the subscriber you dialed is power off...

Sorry..."

After that annoying incident, Ashley had blacklisted Raymond's phone number.

Anyway, they had broken up. Ashley decided that they could no longer be friends. It would never be possible for them to get along after such a devastating incident.

Moreover, there were so many things that stood in the way between them. Lena, their parents, and Raymond's parents too, they were too much for Ashley.

They soon arrived at the company, Raymond got out of the car the moment it stopped. The assistant had to follow him closely.

"Mr. Luo."

"Mr. Luo."

As soon as Raymond entered the company, some employees who were working stood up and greeted him.

But he ignored them and went straight to Ashley's office.

Panting, the assistant followed him.

The employees who stood up and greeted him looked at each other in bewilderment.

Raymond had always been a gentleman in their eyes and always responded to their greetings. Today was the first time he had ignored them. He acted so unusually, his eyes were way different, and they seemed to be full of rage.

Naturally, he was always calm. They had never seen him so infuriated before.

"Does Mr. Luo have something important to do?" one of the employees asked, confused.

"I'm not sure. But he seems to have gone to Miss Mu's office," another employee looked at Raymond's figure and concluded.

"Oh, I see. But didn't Miss Mu already resign? And are those posts and comments on the company forum the other day true?"

"Who cares? Anyway, it has nothing to do with us.

If you still want to work here, stop talking about it."

They still remembered what Mr. Luo's mother had said in the company the other day. She was absolutely not kidding!

Suddenly, the group of people who were discussing hotly seemed to be instantly poured with cold water and was in perfect silence.

Although the Luo Group couldn't be compared with those large listed groups, it still occupied a certain position in J City. Employees working here were carefully selected. Plus the work here was not tiring and the salary was high. So no one dared to disobey Mr. Luo's mother's orders. They were all afraid of being fired.

If they were fired in the Luo Group, for sure no one could find a better job in other companies.

What was worse, if they were fired for spreading rumors in the Luo Group, many companies might not hire them as well.

They had a clear idea of what would happen to them if they did anything wrong about this matter.

For now, they knew what was the most important. Thus with their heads low, they kept silent and went back to their respective works.

Meanwhile, Raymond was standing in Ashley's office. He found her desk very tidy and Ashley's things were gone. Text © 2024 NôvelDrama.Org.

Looking at the scene, he felt that all his strength was drained away.

Scene after scene of his past with Ashley reappeared in his mind. A fit of dizziness came over him and he had blurred vision.

Realizing that Ashley was really gone, he muttered, 'She really left. She really broke off all ties with me.'

Raymond could not help but approach Ashley's desk as if he could see her working here as before.

But no matter what he did, she was already not here. It was just in vain.

In the general manager's office.

When Lena heard that Raymond was back, the joy on her face was obvious.

But when she heard that he had come back in a hurry and then went directly to Ashley's office, her gorgeous face instantly grew gloomy.

Just as she was deep in her thoughts, Raymond pushed the door open and entered.

Lena quickly put away her gloomy expression and replaced it with her usual gorgeous smile. She greeted him, "You're back, Raymond! You must be exhausted after a long journey! Please sit down. Let me massage your shoulders."

Lena stood up and led Raymond to sit on the sofa. She gently massaged his shoulders with her slender hands.