“What time does the meeting start?" asked Luca.
"Around 3:30 in the afternoon, Dr. Craw, are you sure that you're able to attend?" Mo confirmed with her once again. It was not her who wanted Luca to come over but the bunch of old fogeys at the company.
She was just conveying their message.
"Yes," Luca gave her an affirmative answer. Although she did not know the point of the meeting, if it was about Dr. Albus, she would not expect the other professors to lend a helping hand.
When it came to their benefit, friendships and all that was fake.
She hung up the phone and folded her hands together. She felt bad as she thought about what had happened to Dr. Albus.
Half an hour later, Rhett walked up to Luca's office with a lunch box in his hands. He recalled her instructions and hung the lunch box on the door handle.
"Rhett, is that you?" Luca heard sounds.
Rhett thought his movements had disturbed her and said apprehensively, "Yes, Dr. Craw. Sorry for disturbing you."
"It's okay. Come in," said Luca.
The office door was pushed open, and Rhett walked in with a bag. He was surprised to see thick files piled up on her desk.
"Dr. Craw, you should eat first," he said.
"Just leave it here." Luca lifted her chin and continued typing away on her keyboard.
Rhett left the lunch box on the corner of her desk.
"By the way, come with me to Watson for a meeting at three in the afternoon. The meeting starts at 3:30 p.m.," said Luca.
"Alright, Dr. Craw." Rhett nodded.
"Go out first and come remind me when the time comes," said Luca as she worried that she would lose track of time while working.
"Got it." Rhett walked out and closed the door behind him.
Luca did not even raise her head and continued to work while staring at the documents as well as her computer screen.
Zoey saw Rhett come out of Luca's office and asked curiously, “Mr. Link, has Dr. Craw had lunch yet?"
“Not yet. I just delivered her lunch," replied Rhett.
Zoey nodded, indicating that she understood.
Rhett casually asked, “Why are you so concerned about Dr. Craw all of a sudden?"
“No, I'm not... I was thinking that if Dr. Craw had not eaten lunch, I would order food for her. You've seen how busy she is because of the data problem. It's not good for her to starve herself." Zoey waved her hand in a hurry.
“You're right. It's a good thing we have Dr. Craw. She came back from Russia three days ago and already found the problem in the data. We were working on it for a week and couldn't even find where the problem was.." Rhett's words were full of admiration for Luca.
“She found the problem already?" Zoey was taken aback and could not help but praise, “Dr. Craw is too awesome!"
“Exactly. I've learned so much from Dr. Craw. You saw how we struggled with the data problem. We wouldn't have been able to carry on with the drug research without her," Rhett expressed his admiration for Luca with a hint of resignation in his tone.
The data problem was discovered when Luca left for Russia
At the time, Luke had ordered them not to disturb her, so he worked with the researchers in the office to find out what went wrong.
He did not think that they still would not have found the problem after her return.
“You're right. Dr. Craw is the person in charge of the research, after all. I previously heard that Dr. Craw entered the company with this research project and that it was like her own child. Of course, one would understand their child better than anyone else." Zoey may not know much about drug research, but she still understood some of the reasoning behind it.
Rhett listened to her words and nodded in agreement.
Zoey glanced at the time and said, “Mr. Link, I need to go back to work now."
"Alright." Rhett also turned around to swipe his card and walked into the lab.
After Zoey returned to her workstation, she picked up her phone and reported to Luke: [Mr. Link had bought lunch and delivered it to Dr. Craw.]
Right as she arrived at work this morning, Zoey was called upstairs by Tina.
She thought that Tina was the one looking for her but then realized that it was Luke. He had specifically ordered her to watch over Luca and to inform him whether she had eaten on time, if she had to work overtime, or if she had to take time off to go out for some special reasons.
It was not a difficult request, and it was requested by her boss, so Zoey agreed in an instant.
At noon, she realized that Luca did not go downstairs to eat, so she stayed here to observe her. After seeing Rhett come out of Luca's office, she intentionally snooped around to find out what was going on.
When she found out that Luca had food delivered to her, she reported it to Luke.
After seeing that the message was successfully delivered, Zoey recalled Rhett's words and immediately reported again: [Also, Dr. Craw has found the problem with the data.]
Half a minute later, Zoey received a reply from Luke.
[No need to report this.]
Zoey looked at the message notification. He did not compliment her for reporting in detail, nor did he say she did not report enough. Instead, he said that she did not have to report on work matters?
The thing Mr. Crawford cared about the most was whether Dr. Craw had eaten on time or not?
As expected, the rumors that were circulating in the company were true. Luca was the apple of Luke's eyes. Nobody could do her wrong.
[Understood.] Zoey snickered and replied as envy inexplicably filled her heart.
She wanted a man who cared about her too, just like how Luke cared about Luca.
However...
Zoey recalled the never before seen wife of the CEO that Tina mentioned. Although Luca was favored by Luke, their relationship would never be out in the open.
He had a legitimate wife, after all. What difference did it make that Luke favored Luca?
She was undeserving of such description. She may be favored by him, but she did not have the status.
Zoey looked at Luca's office door which was tightly shut and could not help but shake her head.
Even if it was true love, Luca still got herself involved with a man who had a wife and children. Honestly, she did not quite agree with Luca's behavior.
Even so, what did it matter? Even if the majority of the company thought the same as her, there was no point in it.
They still had to put food on the table, so they did not dare say a word.
Even though Luca did not treat the people in this department badly, Zoey was still not very fond of her. Original from .
She wondered why Tina admired Luca so much.
As Zoey was stroking her chin while musing, her phone rang. She frowned when she saw that it was Jenni.
She did not want to pick up, but she still did as she remembered that Jenni had helped her before.
“What is it, Ms. Lynn?"
"I'm outside your office. How about we go downstairs and eat together?" said Jenni on the other end of the call.