Boss's Sweet Secretary
Chapter 44: Tenderness Under Viciousness

When the car drove out of Thomas's house, Hans saw a white figure sitting on the balcony on the second floor through the reflective mirror on the side. The two slender legs swayed as if they were going to fall the next second. Suddenly, his heart tightened.

"What are you doing on the balcony? Do you want to die?"

He closed the car door and roared uncontrollably.

The two legs swaying on the balcony suddenly stopped and slowly withdrew under his angry eyes.

When Hans ran to the second floor, Jennifer had already climbed down from the balcony and stood still. She stood in the bedroom with her head down as if she had done something wrong.

A breeze blew past, her white lace dress was thin and soft like a feather.

"I always stayed on the balcony and nothing happened."

She mumbled pitifully.

Hans's face was cold.

"If you do this again, I'll get someone to seal the balcony, you won't even get to see the sun."

"You won't know if I do it again, you don't come to visit me much anyway."

She even talked back arrogantly.

Facing such a conundrum, Hans helplessly let out a sigh.

"In the evening, James will send the luggage over, open the door for him. If I work overtime and come home late, you should just go out to have dinner, or you can order take-out." Since Jennifer's luggage was already there, the one James was sending certainly wasn't hers.

So it had to be Hans's.

Her gloomy face instantly turned bright, and the speed of her mood change made Hans suspect that she was faking it before. "Really?" She didn't wait for his response and rushed to continue. "You said it, I've heard it. You can not eat your words."

Even though it was his idea, but after what she said, he felt like he was being forced.

A strange look appeared in Hans's eyes. He didn't want to talk to her anymore, so he turned around and walked downstairs.

Before he was even downstairs, he heard someone trotting behind him.

"I want to go back to work tomorrow."

After the car accident, Jennifer was so devastated that she had not been working for two months.

Hearing her voice, Hans turned around. At the bedroom door, Jennifer's long-lost smile was brighter and more dizzying than the warm sun outside the window behind her. With her white dress, she seemed to be shining with a faint halo.

"It was too hot. Why didn't she turn on the air conditioner?"

Hans thought at that time.

That was a year and a half ago. At the beginning of April, there were still people on the street with puffy jackets because they couldn't stand the cold.

A year and a half ago, Jennifer was the definition of pure and innocent in Hans's eyes. It had never changed in the past ten years. From when she was in high school, to when she was in university, to when she was working at Joy Group, and to the accidental death of Thomas. She only changed from being Thomas's secretary to being Hans's secretary.

Even if the way she dressed was different from the first time they met ten years ago. Even if she went from a nobody to a person of importance in Joy Group under the guidance of the big shots in the business world like Thomas and Stephanie. Even without the help of the Miller's family, she became irreplaceable even if she worked in any other company.

It was undeniable that during the period when Hans was under siege, even though Jennifer could not help him with much, there was always a cup of refreshing coffee in the middle of the night after a day of tedious work. She would adjust the table light to a more comfortable distance, or adjust the temperature of the air conditioner. Even if Hans didn't admit that he had fallen in love with Jennifer before, he was not willing to give her to anyone else after the time they spent together during that time.

Even without Jennifer's accident later.

His thoughts ran wild and tangled into a mess.

He touched the pocket of his suit and found a cigarette. Remembering that this was the ward, he looked at sleeping Jennifer again, stood up, and looked for a lighter as he turned to the door. "Don't go..."

There was a warmth in the palm of his hand hanging at his side.

He froze, and his other hand was stuck on his chest. After pausing for a few seconds, he slowly put down the hand that was touching the lighter, and he pulled back his foot which had already taken a step. There were beads of sweat on Jennifer's face. She had a severe fever. The doctor had already told him that it was a normal symptom, she would get better after she sweated it out. Her hand in his palm was very hot and sticky, but he was reluctant to let go.

What Jennifer didn't know was that every time when she fell asleep exhaustively, Hans would always check on her by her bedroom door after he took a shower. Sometimes he would come by once a night, sometimes twice, and sometimes he would stand there for a long time without leaving.

Hans's insomnia began after he returned from the business trip half a year ago.

The next morning, Jennifer woke up in the hospital with Hans sitting next to her. She was firmly grasping his hand. She widened her eyes and suddenly pulled her hand back, which woke him up. He slowly opened his eyes and frowned, staring at her without saying a word.

Jennifer held her forehead as if in a dream. She got up from the bed and leaned against the head of the bed. "Why am I here, you... you..."

"You almost drown just by taking a bath, and now you are telling me you remember nothing?"

He said coldly, hiding his tenderness from last night, not wanting to mention it.

She stiffened and drew back a little apprehensively. She asked cautiously, "Did you send me here?"

"As if you are lucky enough to survive the drowning until I get home."

He stood up and glanced at her. "The doctor will come later. If there is nothing else, you can just go home." "Where are you going?"

Her panicky voice came from behind. Due to her fever, her voice was very hoarse.

"The company will operate as usual without a secretary, but without the boss, will the employees be able to survive?"

She opened her mouth and wanted to say, "Can you accompany me for a while?", but the words were stuck in her throat.

The doctor came for an examination, everything was normal and she could be discharged.

"No hurry, Miss Jennifer, you can rest for a while. It's still early, you may not be able to get a taxi if you leave now."

The doctor said with concern.

"Alright, thank you."

"You're welcome. It's my job."

A pair of cold eyes looking through the window into the ward, his gaze gradually softened.

As he was leaving the hospital, his phone rang. It was James.

"Mr. Hans, the servants' salaries have been paid, and it will take two days to replace new servants. Why don't we just keep two servants first? They are still waiting in your house, saying that they will wait for your explanation."

Hans frowned and said, "Keep the one named Nancy or something, and get rid of everyone else."

After saying this, he looked at his watch. "Make them disappear with all their belongings in twenty minutes."

Jennifer left the hospital before 8 o'clock. She hailed for a taxi on the side of the road. It was not peak hour yet so there was no traffic on the road. She reached home in twenty minutes. She asked the driver to wait at the door while she entered the house to get money.

As soon as she entered the house, she felt something was different.

It felt like something was missing, the house seemed empty.00000