Chapter 57
It snowed all night in Moonshadow Lake. At 7: 00 or 8: 00 in the morning, there was a rush of falling snow, and the evergreen trees on the island were bent by heavy snow.
Outside, the sky was still dark and gray, but the reflection of snow was dazzling. Josh Hunter pressed the remote control to close the curtain, and suddenly remembered to apply medicine to Diana Swift who was still sleeping.
This was the first time he had come into contact with this business of applying medicine. His technique was slightly heavy and not very skilled. Diana Swift frowned in her sleep and kicked him unconsciously.
He ducked his head and didn't care, and only pressed Diana Swift's ankle slightly. After applying the medicine, he looked at the time, unbuttoned his clothes, got up and went to the bathroom.
It's less than a month before the Chinese New Year. Lux Hotel Group's year-end work had entered the final stage, and most employees could relax and be lazy, waiting for the holiday to go home for the Chinese New Year.
But Josh Hunter, as the president of the group, had no so-called holidays. If he had to be busy, he could be busy 365 days a year, just like his two years in Australia.
Only this year, he was uncharacteristically. During the period from mid-January to the eighth day of the year, he didn't ask Sam Rodriguez to arrange any business trips. The work arrangement before the new year was also relatively simple. He only needed to go to the company to handle daily affairs, and then participate in several entertainment events sporadically.
The bathroom was dripping with water, Diana Swift was groggy, and thought it was raining outside. She turned over, and there was a sudden coolness in the sore place. She shrank down, and her consciousness gradually returned from the noisy "rain" that finally stopped abruptly.
When she struggled to open her eyes, she saw Josh Hunter walking out of the bathroom. He raised his jaw slightly and buttoned the first button at the neckline.
Almost without thinking, she immediately closed her eyes, wrapped herself in the quilt and shivered.
It's too scary. Josh Hunter was really too scary. Diana Swift felt that she knew nothing about Josh Hunter before last night!
The abstinence, sexual indifference, did not exist. Now, she was in a state of having nothing worthy to desire for her whole life, and she would never dream of braised ribs again.
Regret, she was just very regretful.
She was thinking, and suddenly a cold kiss fell on her forehead. She was too nervous to open her eyes.
Josh Hunter didn't force her, but whispered, "I'm going to the company. You're not feeling well. Don't go out today. Ask auntie to cook what you want to eat at noon, and I'll come back and cook for you at night. "
Diana Swift kept shaking her head with her eyes closed, the lower half of her face tucked into the quilt. She said, "I don't want you to cook."
He wanted to laugh.
"All right. I'll solve it myself. Just go!"
Diana Swift began to drive him away, and her head shrank into the quilt again.
Josh Hunter didn't say anything more, helped her pull the broken hair behind her ears, then got up and left.
When he closed the door, his eyes still rested on the curled-up shrimp on the bed, and there was softness in his eyes that he had not noticed.
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"Fifty-five, fifty-six, fifty-seven, fifty-eight ..." Sam Rodriguez looked at the regular movement of the second hand of his watch, and obsessive-compulsive disorder made him stop until counting for a full minute.
One hour and fifty-three minutes. Today, the boss didn't go out until one hour and fifty-three minutes later than usual.
When he saw Josh Hunter not far away, who slightly loosened his shoulder and neck while pressing his phalanx, his mind moved slightly.
Josh Hunter got closer and closer. He quickly got off the car, respectfully opened the back seat door, and reached out to block the roof for Josh Hunter. By the way, he said, "Good morning, boss."
"Good morning."
Josh Hunter was a leader with a poker face, but Sam Rodriguez had been with him for several years, and he always knew more about him than others.
Josh Hunter used to be very cold-blooded and heartless every day. But today, he gave him a mild and relaxing feel and he even said "good morning" to him, which obviously showed that he was in a good mood. It's really harder to meet such a day than being suddenly notified of a promotion and salary increase.
Sam Rodriguez was alert. After reporting his work in the car, he said a long list of employees' welfare arrangements for the New Year, and then mentioned his deducted year-end bonus without showing any trace.
Sure enough, Josh Hunter answered without looking up, "Your year-end bonus will be issued as usual. What else? Say it together. "
Sam Rodriguez was a little embarrassed, "Nothing can be hidden from you."
He rubbed his hands and said thoughtfully, "I really want to tell you something. It's Deputy Manager Yang of the marketing department in A Country ... As you know, Deputy Manager Yang and I are college classmates. We used to live in the same dormitory and have a good relationship. Although he is a bit single-minded, his ability is obvious to all. He never spoke to me before, and this time he spoke to me for the first time, and I am really ... "
Josh Hunter rubbed his brow bone.
Sam Rodriguez hurried to get down to business. "He has also been in A Country for several years, and he always wants to come back. Some time ago, he had the opportunity to be transferred back, but something went wrong with the personnel, and finally he was not transferred. In fact, I think the market environment in A Country is very suitable for his development, and this arrangement of personnel is also reasonable, but if he doesn't come back, his girlfriend will break up with him, so ... "
Josh Hunter only thought for a few seconds and then raised his hand to interrupt. "Transfer him back to X City after the year."
Sam Rodriguez was relieved. "OK, I thank you for my old classmate first."
Actually, Sam Rodriguez, as Josh Hunter's assistant, had a lot of people who would do him favor about the internal personnel transfer of the group.
But it's also because he's Josh Hunter's assistant, he knew that Josh Hunter didn't like people around him to keep secret from him, so he hadn't asked anyone to do him a favor.
If it's an ordinary day, he was also embarrassed to tell this to Josh Hunter. Tens of millions or even billions of projects were still waiting in line. It's a little inappropriate for him to mention the unnecessary personnel transfer of his old classmate in front of him, and Josh Hunter would probably have to think about it, and he wouldn't be so accommodating as he was now.
Sam Rodriguez silently thanked Diana Swift back and forth for many times in his mind, and he was very grateful to mention that there was a private collection auction before the new year. He introduced that among the jewelry, some was rare, some was suitable for the elders, some was suitable for the younger generation, and some was suitable for the madam.
Josh Hunter leaned back to rest with his eyes closed, and he didn't know what he was thinking. Unconsciously, he rolled his Adam's apple, and his voice became hoarse, "Shoot it."
Sam Rodriguez: "OK."
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Bentley arrived at the headquarters building of Lux Hotel Group after 30 minutes, and Josh Hunter started a busy day's work again.
At home, Diana Swift woke up and slept, and didn't wake up completely until the evening. In fact, before that, she never thought that she would spend the first day in bed after going home.
After a silent night, Bonnie Smith naturally guessed that Diana Swift and Josh Hunter were as sweet as ever, so she took herself as a hero in the group early in the morning, without any sign of guilty conscience for treason yesterday, and made fun of them with bold words which had vivid sense of pictures.
Betty Miller opened her cell phone and was surprised by Bonnie Smith's bold and unrestrained words.
Betty Miller: [? ? ?]
Betty Miller: [Bonnie's words are terrible!]
Betty Miller: [Mom, I want to leave the group! ! !]
Betty Miller: [Woo woo. I feel that I am not the pure little goose anymore!]
Bonnie Smith smiled with a look of "letting me show you the hostile appearance of the world".
Betty Miller, the little goose, was also weak-willed. Her integrity lasted less than five minutes, and then she was quietly brainwashed by Bonnie's words and began to explore the new field.
In the evening, when Diana Swift opened the chat message, they had started with Betty Miller's "Mr. Hunter looks rather cold" and discussed more than 400 messages about gender topics in the group.
During this period, Miss Smith made frequent golden sentences -
"Half of the loose men are really coquettish and the other half are actually weak, but 90% of the men in man show are horny."
"A man like Mr. Hunter always does great things at first sight."
"Diana Swift doesn't eat much or exercise, and her physical strength is not good enough. I simply estimate that she can't get out of bed for three days and three nights.
Diana Swift said to herself:" I can get out of bed now, but I just don't want to, okay? She doesn't even have a boyfriend. What nonsense is she talking about? Haven't you ever heard that there are only exhausted cows and no plowed land?"
However, the first two sentences of Bonnie Smith were quite right ... Diana Swift briefly paused, and she recalled the details of last night. Suddenly, she grabbed the quilt and put it on her head, blushing all over.
As a result of the intense impact of last night, she was not in the mood to care about Mandy Lee's latest trend after the "Zero Degree" salon, nor was she in the mood to settle with Bonnie Smith.
The producer of the program "The Designer" did send a message to ask her to repost the micro-blogging of the program's opening tonight, and she responded with a "yes", emitting a sense of peace and love like a buddha.
Diana Swift didn't usually play Weibo. She only read news spots and gave likes on it, and occasionally she quarreled with other netizens for Dean Mill.
It was only after the program group took the trouble to persuade her that she certified her account as an interior designer, whose name was changed from a string of English characters typed on the keyboard in the past to the well-behaved "Diana Swift".
Originally, there were only a few hundred fans on her account, half of whom were zombie fans who advertised, and half of whom were her frenemies who played with Weibo and insisted on following each other.
After passing the certification, the program group bought her 30,000 fans, and specially informed her with a "you're welcome" tone. She rolled her eyes silently and didn't even reply to the message.
At the moment, she boarded her account, followed the official account of the program, repost its micro-blogging, and then went offline directly. She didn't even look at the new fans and new private messages. All she could think about was whether Josh Hunter could come back late tonight, and how she could be more natural to face him...
She didn't expect that the result was quite as she wished - Tonight Josh Hunter had to meet a long-term business partner temporarily. He came all the way to pay a special visit, so Josh Hunter couldn't. As for what time he would go home, it's hard to say.
After reading the message from Josh Hunter, Diana Swift replied "yes" and then left the chat interface. But three seconds later, she suddenly clicked in again, and pulled the chat record forward for a while.
Strange, when did he get into the habit of reporting his trip to her? But it's a good habit. Well, it could be maintained.
So on the night when Diana stayed alone in the house, she simply enjoyed the newly expanded cloakroom. When it was eight o'clock, she turned on the TV to watch the premiere of The Designer.
She guessed that Josh Hunter should have told the program group again, so her shots were not cut at all. The opening lottery grouping and drawing scheme had her shot.
She was not a star. Naturally, there were not too many shots of her. Fortunately, every shot was beautiful, in which she looked stunning and outstanding. Sarah Reed, the gaudy girl idol next to her, looked like a bit of a walk-on.
At the moment, the gossip forum also had program-related posts discussing her appearance:
[Where is Dean Mill? Wasn't it said that he would attend?]
[He hasn't appeared yet. Don't worry.]
Hey, do you think that amateur designer is very beautiful?]
[Yes! I feel that she is more beautiful than Sarah Reed.]
[I only heard that there is a big gap between actors and idol before, but I didn't expect that there is a big gap between amateurs and idol.]
Diana Swift knew nothing about these discussions, but she was quite satisfied with the photogenic effect.
She ate raisins and watched the program, but the more she watched, the more she felt something was wrong.
She felt that the broadcast content, the sequence of many links, even the word order of speech, didn't match the recorded content at that time.