Chapter 137 He Had Already Drunk It
Jessica didn't even notice that she had been standing here staring at Gabriel in a daze.
She stared at him without looking away for more than two minutes.
It wasn't until Gabriel suddenly looked up, and in that moment of eye contact, Jessica quickly looked away, then returned her gaze to him. "If you're not done with your work, I'll just..."
Gabriel gestured with his eyes towards the direction of the sofa behind her. "Sit."
But Jessica didn't move, nor did she intend to sit. She just glanced at the iPad and files beside him and suddenly noticed keenly that there was a screen in his office displaying surveillance cameras of the company's main areas, including the front square where she had just been.
Voices from the computer, Gabriel glanced at the person on the video opposite and said, "Au revoir, monsieur."
Jessica heard this, unsurprised to see him simultaneously closing the computer on his desk.
"Sorry, there's a partner who urgently needs to discuss a project." Gabriel's hand was still on the computer. He turned to her. "Do you understand French?"
Jessica neither nodded nor shook her head. She just smiled and said, "You do your thing. I'll just stand here and enjoy watching your work. It's a kind of enjoyment."
Even so pleasing to the eye.
Gabriel didn't ask further. He understood Jessica's temperament.
From her youth to her time studying abroad, no matter her linguistic prowess or past, she saw herself as a mere striving starlet in today's entertainment industry, never dwelling on the past or chasing present illusions. Gabriel picked up the paper file on the desk. "Give me ten minutes."
Jessica stood in front of the desk and made an “OK ” gesture with her hand.
She looked at him for a moment, Gabriel's figure straight and tall as a pine, sitting upright at the desk.
The evening sun's rays shone through the huge floor-to-ceiling window behind him, casting a glow on him. Gabriel looked focused, occasionally signing with a pen and occasionally reviewing electronic texts on the iPad.
Jessica had been holding her breath in the water all afternoon but hadn't drunk much water, and now she felt a bit thirsty.
Not wanting to disturb his work, she simply turned around and wandered around the large CEO's office. She noticed an unfamiliar model of a water dispenser by the sofa. After pressing buttons without success, she hesitantly fetched a disposable cup from the small table, waving it before the dispenser. .
Sure enough, the button's indicator lit up.
It turned out to be voice-activated, so it was no wonder she couldn't find the button after pressing it for so long.
Despite having seen a lot during her time with the Jenner family when she was young and encountering various high-tech gadgets abroad, she never expected to suddenly feel like a country bumpkin in the city, even for just getting a drink of water.
After pouring hot water, she tested the temperature, which was just right, slightly warm.
She first poured half a cup, drank it, and then poured another small half cup, intending to continue drinking. Thinking about whether Gabriel was thirsty after working for so long, she was about to ask him if he wanted water.
As she turned around, before she could speak, she was taken aback by Gabriel who had walked up behind her at some point, subconsciously afraid that the water in the cup would spill on him. Jessica raised the cup in her hand to the side with force, but because of the difficult movement during the turn, her face ended up perfectly colliding with Gabriel's arms.
Gabriel, still holding the file, stood still in place, feeling a sudden weight in his arms.
In that moment of collision, Jessica even more cautiously raised the cup in her hand.
A moment of silence hung in the air.
Jessica was stunned, only reacting after a moment, and quickly took a step back, looking up at Gabriel's calm gaze. She suddenly felt her body was not under her control. She could have easily dodged to the side just now, so why did she end up perfectly colliding with him?
No, it was he who was out of control of his body!
He walked without making a sound!
Jessica, completely unaware that her intense focus on studying the water dispenser just now had caused her to be too absorbed, quickly took a larger step back and, at the same time, blurted out the words that had just come to her mind. "Do you want some water?"
Gabriel glanced at her and took the cup from her hand.
Jessica thought, 'What's going on?'
She suddenly looked at her now empty hand, then back at the cup in Gabriel's hand.
"Wait, wait a minute!"
"This is my cup!"
It was already too late; he had already drunk it.
Jessica was speechless.
Upon hearing her words, Gabriel's gaze only fell on the hand Jessica had just held the cup in, and he casually replied, "Didn't you ask me if I wanted water?"
"I was asking if you wanted water. I'll pour you another cup!" Jessica's ears felt a bit hot, then suddenly remembered to ask, "Do you walk without making a sound?"
Gabriel glanced at her slightly red ears without a trace of emotion. "You were too focused."
Clearly, he did not intend to explain how he suddenly walked from the desk to her nor to comfort her about the cup in his hand.
Gabriel checked the time. "I made you wait for so long. Let's go."
Seeing Gabriel walk out with the file, Jessica hesitated for a moment, then quickly followed him out.
As they left the CEO's office, an assistant came out of the opposite office, about to print something.
Gabriel stopped him and handed over the file. "Take this to Landon. He knows what to do."
"Alright, Mr. Harriman." The assistant respectfully took it, his eyes curiously glancing at Jessica next to Gabriel. Then, suddenly feeling a faintly cool gaze, he quickly withdrew his gaze and went to do his task with the file.
Jessica inquired curiously, "How many assistants do you have?"
Gabriel replied, "Not many, about a dozen."
'So many?' she thought.
"Although they are assistants, each of them is responsible for different areas of work, with clear divisions of labor, "Gabriel calmly explained, "For the assistants who work with me, there are only Landon and Wayne, who just escorted you up."
Jessica said, "Okay!"
She glanced around the spacious CEO's top-floor office, noting the sparse staff despite the Harriman Group's large workforce. The bustling first floor and numerous receptionists she'd seen upon entry starkly contrasted the quiet solitude of the CEO's floor. Walking through the bright and quiet corridor, she noticed that there were two executive elevators to this floor, and the elevators to other floors required a password, meaning not just anyone could come up to this floor.
Coupled with the rumors that Gabriel often exuded an aura of keeping people at a distance, she suspected that many of the employees working here might not have seen him in person, even after working here for several years.
