Chapter 20

It had been a few days since Azalea had gone away, and Ray grew more and more worried about her. She had a tendency to let herself starve and skip her medications, which made her prone to getting seriously ill, but she had never taken her condition seriously and always delayed her medications and food. Now that she was out of his sight, he was worried. The fact that she didn't even tell him her whereabouts was severely nerve-wracking for him, not to mention the piling up of the work that he had to take care of alone.

Ray sat on his chair, leaning his head over a pile of files that he had to submit to Azalea so she could sign them. He pounded his head into the files repeatedly while trying to sort his thoughts once and for all.

"Secretary Ray!" The receptionist outside Azalea's office burst into his office, causing him to tremble and pull away from the piled-up files. "Steady! You almost killed me!" He brushed his chest with a deep frown between his brows and took deep breaths t