Bertha’s serious gaze made Simon panic.
“Bertha, why are you suddenly talking about this?”
He did not know why Bertha would say such a thing. Frowning, he fell into deep thought for a few minutes before a possibility occurred to him.
“Bertha, did someone say something to you?”
Before she could reply, Simon’s expression turned stern, and he made a call. “Come to the restaurant now.”
Fifteen minutes later, his secretary rushed over and stood in front of him while gasping. With a dark expression, he said to his secretary, “Sign to Bertha all the business trips and all the things I’ve been doing at the company lately.”
His secretary frowned. After some thinking, he approached Bertha and started signing, “I went on a business trip abroad with Mr. Zimmer two months ago. When Mr. Zimmer heard that you fell ill, he abandoned a contract worth one million dollars. He immediately booked a plane ticket back so that he could take care of you. He watched over you as you fell asleep.
“Over the years, all sorts of women have tried to sleep with Mr. Zimmer, but none of them have ever caught his eye. Since he’s worried that you’ll misunderstand, he always asks me to chase them away.
“When Mr. Zimmer attended a social gathering last week, he got drunk and kept calling out your name. He stumbled back just so that he could fall asleep beside you. Whenever he joins a meeting in the company, Mr. Zimmer always reminds me to immediately tell him if you call because he doesn’t want you to wait for him.”
The secretary signed so much that his hands became sore. All the things he said pointed to how much Simon cared for and loved Bertha over the years.
When Simon saw that Bertha was still silent, he scowled, and fury raged in his eyes.
