[Bonus chapter]

"Annie! Are you back? I heard from the staff that you went with one of them." Hazel, who was working on the files, closed them immediately and ran to meet Anne, for whom she was waiting all this time.

Anne looked at Hazel with eyes holding no emotion and then started walking away as if she did not hear her.

"Anne! Are you…" 

"I have collected the information about Lucio. Give me some time and I will come to your office with it." she muttered in a hollow voice as she walked away and opened the door of her room.

"But Anne.." the door was closed before Hazel could ask another word and she sighed.

"Give her some time. You are being too harsh on her by forcing her to work with Declan." Rafael closed the file in his hands and stared at Helen who came back to office with her slumped shoulders like a deflated balloon.

Helen passed him a glare but did not reply. Her own thoughts are a mess.