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They both went to the administrative building and Louise successfully filed a leave.

"Let's go." Augustus held her hands while carrying her bag.

Louise smile upon seeing their intertwined fingers.

"Have you eaten?" He asked as they were about to get out from the campus.

"I just did. My dorm mate bought me breakfast." Louise said as she recalled that Shirley went out last night and came back early this morning and she had a breakfast with her.

It was still far from lunch so, Augustus dragged her to the mall to buy things, personally.

"Let's go to the mall." He said as they boarded the car.

"Are you buying something?" She asked. Usually, his things are prepared by his assistants and this also include her things.

"En. It's still far from the appointed time..." Augustus said.

Appointed time?

"You have something on after?" Naturally, Augustus had a packed schedule and he didn't need to do anything personal for trivial matters.

"We..." Augustus corrected her.

"Okay." She just agreed. Anyway, it was her first time doing something like this. It was like a date.

"Is this a date?" She blurted her thoughts out.

"You can say so..." Augustus chuckled. He glanced at her and this made his eyes sparkle.  He wondered if she will be surprised. He is looking forward to it.

After some time of driving, Augustus entered an underground parking lot and parked his car.

"We're here, let's go." Augustus unbuckled his seatbelt and then he unbuckled Louise's seatbelt too.

Louise got out from the car before Augustus could open the car door for her.

He sighed at this. This woman really doesn't want to be served attentively. He wanted to do so as he quite enjoyed it but this woman had his head ache.

Even though he was grumbling on the inside and wanted to say these, his face really said nothing.

He walked towards Louise and grabbed her hands. Atleast, she didn't shy away when he wanted to hug or get touchy with her. She sometimes shied but he was relentless that all she could do was to let him be.

They boarded the elevator and then he hugged her so tightly.

"What are you doing?" She asked as she was quite surprised.

"Just hugging. I missed you..." He said solemnly. During the months that they were far apart, he was trying to curb his impulse to visit her as he was so utterly busy for the merger of LM and one of his companies.

" I missed you too." She reciprocated his hug and buried her face to his chest, inhaling his lavender scent. She missed his presence so much. Her reliance on him was great and she had a period of time that she struggled for adjustments.

Augustus looked at her lovingly. He knew that because she wanted to take revenge, she was working very hard.

The elevator stopped at the household section of the mall and they got out.