Chapter 272: Chapter 272: He Saw Me Sleeping
An enviably handsome face suddenly appeared right in front of Ashley Shaw’s eyes, close enough that their noses would touch in less than half a centimeter, so close that she could count the number of his eyelashes.
Ashley Shaw suddenly widened her eyes, and her drowsiness was instantly scared away.
Before she could do anything, Warren Prescott had already straightened up.
In his outstretched hand, he held a suit jacket that he had pulled from the backrest behind her, asking as if nothing was unusual: "Have you had enough sleep?"
Ashley Shaw immediately understood that Warren was just retrieving the suit jacket hanging on the sofa backrest.
Her tense nerves relaxed.
Yet she failed to notice Warren let out a barely audible breath of relief.
Almost...
"Have you finished your meeting?" Ashley Shaw asked.
"Yeah."
Ashley quickly checked her phone.
She found out it was already after four in the afternoon.
She instantly sprang up from the sofa.
"Oh no, I’m late!"
From there to the airport, even without traffic and stoplights, would take an hour, let alone that now it’s almost rush hour.
"Don’t worry." Warren said calmly, "The flight is delayed, it lands at 7:30 pm."
Ashley Shaw’s hanging heart settled down.
"Let’s go, let’s head out early to avoid traffic."
"Okay." Ashley nodded and followed Warren out of the office.
Outside, Assistant Mark was waiting. Seeing her come out, he smiled and greeted, "Miss Shaw, you’re awake?"
Ashley Shaw’s cheeks warmed up.
It seemed Assistant Mark had also come in earlier...
She wondered if she looked ugly when she slept.
Whatever, ugly is ugly, after all, she didn’t have to maintain any image in front of Warren and Assistant Mark.
She originally thought Assistant Mark would come along, but he just escorted them to the elevator entrance and stood outside without moving.
"If there’s anything in the company you can’t resolve, give me a call."
"Understood."
The elevator doors closed slowly, and the elevator descended to the underground parking garage.
Ashley was going to sit in the back seat, but she easily gets carsick.
The way to the airport was quite a long stretch, so after some hesitation, she opened the passenger door.
Oh well, why make her body suffer?
Sitting in the front seat wouldn’t hurt.
The car drove out of Spectator Tower, and Ashley couldn’t help but think of Leo.
It’s been a long time, and she wondered how much he’d changed.
In the group of young men around Warren, Leo was certainly the most unique.
The Quincy family had been in politics for three generations, with everyone in the family holding official positions, their foundation was very profound.
Then, a year ago, the Quincy family suddenly encountered an incident.
Ashley didn’t know the specifics, only that from Leo’s grandfather’s generation to his parents, all went to prison, and their assets were confiscated.
Fortunately, Elder Prescott stepped in later and helped the Quincy family through this difficult time.
Although they all got out, they couldn’t return to politics and could only do small businesses.
The Quincy family has since fallen from a feared political family to ordinary people who could be stepped on by anyone with some ability.
Just when everyone thought Leo would give up or become ordinary, at the time only a sophomore, he produced a research result that was enough to shock the world.
Ashley didn’t understand what his research achievement was, because it was too deep and complex.
She only knew that his research allowed humans to gain a further understanding of cosmic black holes.
Since then, Leo was selected by Veridia to go abroad to a top astronomical research institute for exchanges and studies with the world’s best astronomers.
In that ’accident,’ many people in the Quincy family fell, but Leo let them stand up again.
No one dared to step on the Quincy family anymore, and everything returned to its original state due to Leo’s efforts.
So, Leo was definitely the most special among their group.
The car was heading all the way to the airport.
Warren was the first to break the silence.
"All your photos on the internet have been deleted."
"Hmm." Ashley paused, then added: "Thank you."
Warren did not take credit, stating: "It was Mr. Cheney following up on this matter, Mr. Cheney is the one who you delivered water to..."
"I know who Mr. Cheney is." Ashley interrupted, "I met him before I returned your phone, he told me and apologized to me again."
Warren was silent for a moment, then asked: "I didn’t fire him, what do you think?"
Ashley looked at Warren in surprise.
"What do you mean by what do I think?"
"Don’t you blame him?"
"It’s not him who did it, it was his brother-in-law. Besides, his brother-in-law didn’t really do anything to me."
"That’s because he didn’t have the chance to do anything to you."
"..."
"So you’ve forgiven them?"
"It’s not about forgiveness, anyway, I probably won’t run into them much in the future."
Warren glanced at Ashley out of the corner of his eye and said softly, "Why is it so easy to forgive others?"
Ashley didn’t hear clearly and turned her head to ask: "What did you just say?"
"Nothing." Warren looked straight ahead and said calmly: "Let me know when the welcome dinner tonight is over."
"?"
"Last time, Grandpa gave you a gift, it’s in my trunk, you forgot to take it."
Ashley suddenly remembered this matter.
Grandpa Prescott called it a ’school opening gift,’ but she was startled by that Snake and forgot all about it.
"Okay. Thank you."
Warren’s eyes dimmed.
Another thank you.
So distant.
So...annoying.
Warren didn’t speak again, just as he was ready to step hard on the gas to speed up, he suddenly remembered Ashley gets carsick, so the foot that was about to stomp the accelerator withdrew its force.
The car proceeded at a leisurely pace.
Ashley looked out the car window, but Warren’s mention of Shawn Coleman earlier reminded her of Sean Langley’s matter.
It’s a world where the weak are prey to the strong.
Because she’s not strong enough, that’s why the Langley Family bullied her.
Because she’s not strong enough, that’s why Chief Sutton stood by Sean Langley without hesitation.
And because she’s not strong enough, Shawn Coleman didn’t take her seriously.
And she, it seems, always has to depend on others.
This ’others,’ is the one she least wants to depend on.
Ashley couldn’t help but clench her hand on the seatbelt.
Warren felt Ashley’s low mood and glanced at her at a red light.
He saw her looking out the window, with slightly furrowed eyebrows, not knowing what she was thinking.
But it’s clearly not something happy.
"Get me a bottle of water." He suddenly said.
Ashley was abruptly snapped back to reality.
"Where is it?"
"In the back."
Isn’t this obvious? The front row is in full view, with no place to put water, it must be in the back.
She was really asking where in the back.
Suddenly, Ashley caught sight of something like a small box on the backseat, she unbuckled the seatbelt, turned around with one knee on the seat, the other leg straight, stretching her body backward, and finally touched the handle of the ’small box.’
As she pulled open the box, it turned out to be a mini-fridge.
Inside, besides two bottles of expensive wine, there was only one bottle of Paris water.