A Lifetime With You

Chapter 129

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Ava was absent-minded since the moment she arrived at the company in the morning. Enrico had told her in advance that Damien had an executive meeting today, and she could take the opportunity to check out the safe in Damien’s office. She had never done something like that, so she couldn’t help but feel nervous. Therefore, she didn’t have an appetite during lunch. “Miss Nagel, you look pale. Are you feeling unwell?” Luella was concerned and she gave Ava a piece of bread by putting it in front of her.

“Uh… I’m fine.”

“I don’t think you’ve eaten much during lunch. You should eat some bread to fill your stomach.” Ava stood up as she picked up a folder and walked out. “Miss Nagel, where are you going?” “… I have to go upstairs.” “There’s an executive meeting on the upstairs today. Why are you going there?” Ava didn’t answer her, and she got into the elevator hurriedly. In order to enter Damien’s office, she had to pass by the secretary’s office. Dempsey and few higher level secretaries were in the conference room for the meeting, so there were only three to five people left in the secretary’s office. She walked in and told them, “I have a document that I need to hand over to the president personally.”

When they saw Ava from the Administrative Office, they quickly said to her, “Leave it to us, we’ll hand it over to the president.”

“No, I have to give it to the president personally! I… I’d better go into his office to wait for him!” Ava pretended that she was about to go in and they stopped her in an instance. As she couldn’t break in by force, she had to hand over the folder obediently.

It seemed that it was impossible to go in during the daytime, thus she had to think of another way. She lowered her head as she walked out of the secretary’s office and she bumped into Dempsey, who was

coming out from the conference room. She was stunned when she saw Ava. “Mada… Uh, Miss Nagel, what are you doing here?” “Oh, nothing!” Ava kept her head down and left in a rush as she feared that she would be exposed. However, Dempsey called out to her, “I’m going to take a document from the president’s office. Are you looking for the president?”

She nodded in a daze.

Dempsey added, “Miss Nagel, why don’t you wait in the president’s office for a while?”

Ava was thrilled upon hearing that. She failed to come up with an excuse to enter the president’s office just a moment ago, but an

opportunity appeared unexpectedly. She followed Dempsey into the room swiftly. Dempsey went straight to the safe and entered the password to open it. She then took out an encrypted envelop.

Ava was extremely nervous that her heart almost jumped out of her chest. The safe was opened in front of her after she had been working so hard for it! Did those documents that Enrico wanted were placed in there? It was a pity that Dempsey’s back was facing her and blocked her view as she was entering the password. Since it wasn’t amiable to get too close, she felt awkward to take two steps closer to take a peek.

After Dempsey collected the files, she locked the safe.

She noticed that Ava has been staring at her, so she smiled, “Miss Nagel, please wait for a little while. The meeting will end in about half an hour. I shall send the documents to the president immediately.”

“Wait!” Ava stopped her hastily. “Miss Nagel, is there anything else?” “A… About the safe’s password, is it only you and the president know about it?”

“Of course, those are important documents of the company. Other than the president and I, there are another four executives that could access it, and no one else could open it.”

Ava thought of something. Since Dempsey knew about the safe’s password, Damien must have trusted her deeply. It was said that Dempsey had worked under Damien as soon as she graduated from university, so she must be remarkably capable in her work. After Dempsey left, Ava shook her head to clear her mind. Why did she think of something irrelevant at a time like this? Since she was alone in the office, she quickly approached the safe.

But, how can she open it? She remembered scenes from movies where the person who wanted to open the safe would need some special types of equipment. But she didn’t have any of those. She tried to look from some other angles for fingerprints that Dempsey might have left on the buttons, as she had just pressed on them. But obviously, the movies were all lies as she couldn’t see anything at all. “Forget it and just give it a shot!” Ava took out a small note that she jotted down yesterday. She tried entering his birthday and all the dates that she found on the internet that were related to him. None of them worked. Just what kind of password did he use? She was getting dizzy after trying the passwords again and again, but the lock didn’t budge at all. At this moment, the office door opened.

“What are you doing?”

Damien walked into the office and he saw Ava bending over beside the shelf as she was trying to open his safe.

She panicked as she heard his voice, so she hid the paper in her hands hastily. “… I’m just… looking around.” Damien looked at her doubtingly.

When he was in a meeting, Dempsey told him that Ava came over to his office to see him. He quickly

ended the lengthy meeting as soon as he knew about it. He didn’t expect that she seemed to have some tricks up her sleeves.

Damien then took two steps closer to her.

Just as she was about to expose herself, she subconsciously looked at the shelf and noticed that the safe’s shelf was filled with books.

Ava quickly took one of the books in her hand and said with a smile, “I found this book interesting, and I wanted to have a look. You wouldn’t mind if I touched your book, right?” “I don’t like anyone touching my things,” he said coldly. She quickly put back the book, and said ashamedly, “Oh, I’m sorry.” Damien chuckled, “But you’re not just anyone.”

He raised his hand and wanted to brush her hair, but Ava avoided it instinctively. All of a sudden, he pulled her hand from her back and twisted her wrist.

“Hey! What are you doing!” She was aghast. Damien’s eyes were sharp and his movements were quick. He grabbed her hand and snatched the piece of paper from her.

Ava was so scared and she wanted to grab it back because she was afraid that he would discover something.

But he was a head taller than her. When he raised his arm and unfolded the note, she couldn’t touch

it even if she tried to jump.

The note had many numbers that she found on the internet, such as his date of birth, his height and so on.

“You’re researching about me?” Damien asked with a smile. Obviously, he misunderstood the purpose of the note. He thought that she secretly looked him up in order to understand him better. It would be better for him to misunderstand than discover her ill intentions on the safe.

“If you want to know about me, you can just ask me directly. You don’t even need to search online.” Damien was in a good mood as soon as he saw the note. “I…” Ava’s face turned red again. She was unable to explain herself at this point. She pretended to be shy and ran out of his office with her head down.