You Hit My Heart
Chapter 175

On the other hand, Joyce was working overtime at R&S Group.Special Assistant Casey assigned her some extra work today, notsomething urgent, and she wondered why Casey had to ask her tofinish it on Sunday.

"Hi, I got you a mocha coffee.” Juanita knew that Joyce was coming tothe group and came over to keep her company.

Joyce looked up from the pile of documents and laughed, "What didyou have to come here for on the weekend instead of staying homeand relaxing?"

"How boring it is to be at home? You know, I'm all alone in a rentedapartment and usually have no one to talk to." Juanita ploped down onthe partition of Joyce's desk and curled her hair in boredom.

"You can go shopping.” Joyce said as she sorted through thedocuments.

Juanita heard that and felt interested, "After you delt with everything,you go shopping with me, okay? I'll take you to eat something reallygood. I've discovered a terrific Japanese restaurant.”

Joyce shook her head regretfully, "I can't. There's no one at hometoday, so I have to go back and cook for grandma." She looked at herphone. It was already after three o'clock, and she hadn't finished herwork.

She wanted to leave early, so she handed a thick stack of documentsto Juanita, "Or else, you can help make some copies. I want to finishwork early and then make a trip to the supermarket for somegroceries.”

"No problem.” Juanita picked up the documents and walked to theoffice copier.

Joyce continued to bury her head in the piles.

At that moment, her phone suddenly rang, she took a glance, but it wasLuther.

She hesitated and frowned slightly, but finally she pressed the answerbutton.

"Why aren't you replying to my messages?" On the other end of thephone, Luther's voice sounded very unhappy.

Joyce then remembered that he had sent her a message this morningand she had only looked at it and not replied.

“You leave a message, I read it and it will show read. That's the sameas me saying I have read it. Do I just have to reply to, like, everymessage?" She felt it was childish to answer such a question from him."You..." Luther gasped, pausing for a moment before asking, "How'sGrandma doing?"

"Can't you just call Grandma? Why do you have to ask me?" Joyce feltspeechless. It was even harder to communicate with this man over thephone than in person.

"Joyce, can you talk properly? I called my grandmother and no oneanswered!" Luther didn't know why he had to be angry, but he wasalways distracted by her figure in his mind. He was away for a fewdays, but she seemed to be completely different, not even bothering toreply to messages.

"Oh, maybe Grandma was asleep and didn't hear the phone ring.Grandma's spirits are getting better every day for the past few days.The new medication is working well. Jamie said that Grandma's chestfluid has mostly subsided and the amount of pain medication has nowbeen cut in half. When I left this morning, Grandma was lookingespecially good." Joyce retorted.

"Where are you right now?" Luther's voice was a little unnatural. Hewanted to call his grandmother and ask for Joyce, but she wasn'tanswering her phone, which meant Joyce wasn't home either.

He was upset and kind of wanted to know her whereabouts. He wascurious to know what Joyce was really doing. Could she be withsomeone else?

“I'm working late at the group!" Joyce said without good grace."Really?" On the other end of the phone, there seemed to be disbelief.