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"That must be One" Queen turned her body to the door as she dropped her finger from Quince's lips, completely forgetting him.

'Now let's see what this is all about! I want to connect the dots and solve this ASAP.' Queen thought as she imitated Quince by yelling "Enter!"

As for Quince, the heat in his body was still burning him up. He felt like he was sitting on a roller coaster and right at the top most part, just as the train was supposed to go down with high speed,he was just left...hanging. The train never went down.

One entered the room then and he wanted to turn around and run back out so bad. His boss face looked so dark and his eyes were positively murderous! 'Did I interrupt something?'

Queen was oblivious to it all as she focused solely on One. "Report!" Queen said excitedly.

One glanced at his boss, seeing that he still had a dark expression on but didn't protest against the Miss words, he reported his findings.

"These are the documents I got via fax from the main office. In here, it consists of the days and the timing the engineers showed up to work at the company. It contains various information about the company they founded together as well." One said as he handed the thick report over to Quince.

Quince kept the report at his chest level and started reading it. Meanwhile, Queen walked behind Quince and stretched her feet to the highest height possible before trying to see the document over his shoulder.

Quince noticed her behavior and lowered the document so she had to stretched her feet even further and pushed her body forward to read it.

He knew he was being childish. But he couldn't help feeling petty when he thought about how she just walked away, with a serene expression on her face, as if she wasn't the least affected by what transpired between them.

'She probably wasn't.' Quince thought as he frowned, displeased by the thought. The atmosphere around him turned even more gloomy and One was already asking for mercy from the higher being.

"Whoops!" Quince heard her voice as he felt a soft and fragrant body leaning on him from behind. Quince immediately turned around and caught her waist with both hands. The document was squashed between his right hand and her left waist.

Queen used both her hands to grip Quince's shoulders before steadying herself. She stretched too much and lost her balance so she inevitably fell on Quince.

"You're being clumsy again." Quince said with a soft chuckle. He immediately felt better now that she was within reach and he could touch her once again.

"My foot is not completely healed yet so I lost my balance then." She replied simply.

"Of course." Quince said shortly. Queen got the impression that he didn't believe her one bit but there was nothing she could do about it at that point.

If she kept insisting he was most likely going to say the same thing again, acting like he was giving victory to a little girl.

"You're not going to repeat it?" Quince asked with a light smile on his face. His dimples were showing and Queen couldn't resist using her fingers to poke them.

Quince was startled by her action and loosened his hold on her waist. Queen stepped away before saying haughtily, "No."

Quince forced the laughter down his throat as he looked at her condescending action. 'She is certainly learning.' She now knew the kind of reactions he would have if she kept insisting on not being clumsy.

"We don't have all day Master Quince, I do not wish to go to jail and you would certainly want to find the culprit. I say we start looking at those documents!" Queen said with her usual smile. She wasn't going to let him distract her from her purpose.

"Certainly." Quince nodded in agreement.

As for One, he was shocked by the scene he just witnessed. He couldn't believe how gentle his boss was being towards the Miss. What's scarier is that, the boss is even smiling! He never smiles for a woman that's not his mother!

"One, you may leave." Quince commanded shortly.

One walked out the door and left the two of them alone in the room.

"Give me the documents!" Queen said as she walked over to sit on the chair but before she could reach the chair, she abruptly turned back to look at Quince.

"How long do you think we'll need to go through those documents?" She asked.

"A couple of hours at least, discussing theories and possibilities will probably take another couple hours. Why?" Quince answered as he looked at the thick stack of document in his hand.

"Give me 15 minutes!" Queen said as she walked to the door. Before she could leave, Quince grabbed her hand.

"Where are you going?" He asked.

"To change my clothes! I have been sweating all day and I want to get comfortable." She said.

"I'm coming with you." Quince immediately told her that.

"No! I want privacy." Queen refused him.

"Miss Vancroft..." Quince began but before he could say anything further, he immediately felt something soft covered his mouth.

"You know I'm not the culprit by now! I promise I'll be back in 15 minutes. Please?" Queen used her hands to cover his mouth before looking up at him with pleading eyes.

Quince simply couldn't say no to her. Especially not when she's looking at him like that.

He nodded in agreement and Queen freed her hands from his mouth. She had a wide happy smile on her face, melting Quince's heart even more.

"I'm sending One with you." He said before she could leave.

"What! No!"

"It's late. He will wait for you in front of your room and lead you back here. You can't enter this area of the cruise without me or him." Quince explained.

Queen rolled her eyes before agreeing. She left hurriedly, dying to get out of her gown.

Quince watched her leave, with One trailing behind her and let out a long sigh. He crumpled his hair, wondering what to do with his strange emotions.

'I should go take a shower as well.'