After Joanne had done all the things, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon

From the moment she left Manager Carol's office, she had begun to think whether she should go home or go to find Brian.

When she came into the elevator, she pressed the button of the 86th floor by mistake.

She thought with her head tilted to one side, "Since it's so, I could go upstairs to see Brian."

Brian was reading some documents when she entered his room, and from Joanne's view, his face was perfect and beautiful. With an exquisite pen between his fingers, he had a strong and overwhelming aura around him even he kept his head down.

Joanne walked very slightly.

She didn't let Daisy inform Brian of her arrival because she wanted to scare him.

"Have you finished your business?"

Brian looked up at her suddenly as if he had already known that she was in the office.

Joanne felt embarrassed and said in upset, "When do you notice me? I think you couldn't hear my footsteps."

"But I heard the door opening," Brian leaned backward and said. "The one who dared came in without knocking the door and making any sound in the room couldn't be anyone else except you."

Joanne touched her nose and smiled to change the topic. "All the things related to the anniversary celebration have been prepared. Anything else can I do for you, Mr. Brian?"

Brian pushed his coffee cup to her and said, "Go to get me a cup of coffee."

It was a too easy task for Joanne to do, but she still took up the cup and went to the tea room.

She checked the time while grinding the coffee. "It's still early. If I continue to stay in Brian's office, it'll bother him and waste my time. I should hang out nearby." She thought.

Then, she took the coffee back to Brian, but, before she could speak, he said frowningly, "I need iced coffee."

"Are you used to drinking iced coffee?" Joanne asked.

Brian frowned harder. "Didn't Daisy tell you that yesterday?"

"No." Joanne picked up the phone on his desk with a smile and called Daisy, "I'll call her."

Brian looked at her and raised his eyebrows. What he could think about was that she would ask Daisy to grind a new cup of coffee.

"Mr. Brian?" Daisy's voice sounded from the phone quickly.

"Daisy, it's me." Joanne said smilingly. "From this moment on, Mr. Brian's coffee should be hot."

Daisy was surprised for a second and then said, "Ok, lady, I get it."

"Then, continue on your own business."

When Joanne ended the call, a happy smile adorned her lips.

Brian was not angry. He asked in a normal tone, "You should give me a reason about this, shouldn't you?"

Joanne had sat down on his desk while talking on the phone. At that moment, she leaned forward and approached him. She poked his stomach and said, "Darling, you have stomach problems, don't you know that?"

Brian stared at her chest. "That-are you tempting your husband now?"

Joanne looked down. She wore a casual white cotton shirt that day, and the neckline was a little low. When she leaned over to Brian, who, therefore, got a "visual feast".

Her face turned red, and she hurriedly covered her chest with her hands. "Rogue! I'm leaving now."

"Come back." Brian called her. "Don't you see that it's going to rain? Where are you going?"

Joanne looked out the window, only to find that dark clouds covered the sky of Arlington, and a downpour was coming.

She was depressed. "I want to go shopping nearby. Or... forget it. Go on with your own business and I'll stay here waiting for you to go home from work."

As she said that, she had already sat down on the sofa, took out an iPad from the bag she carried with her, plugged in the headphones, and started watching a movie on it.

Brian saw her find something to kill time so, he ignored her and continued to deal with his documents.

When he looked up at her again, a long time had passed. Joanne had fallen asleep on the sofa with the iPad in her arms and the earphones well-worn in her ears.

Brian got up and walked over to her to kneel down beside the sofa. The lightning suddenly shone through the glass window of the room, and the light inside turned dark in a second. Brian covered Joanne's ears with his both hands, and the next second, thundering sounds echoed in the sky. Raindrops as big as beans slammed against the glass window.

Joanne was still woken up by the thunder. At that time, Brian had already withdrawn his hands from her ears, thus, Joanne only saw that Brian was kneeling in front of the sofa. She closed her eyes in confusion and asked, "Is it raining?"

"Yeah." Brian took off her headphones. "Get up and go to sleep in the rest room."

The words which the sleepy people hated to hear the most might be "get up". Joanne grumbled and turned around to bury her face in the sofa and pretended to hear nothing.

Brian called her a few times more, but still, she pretended not to hear it, and finally, he simply hugged her up.

This time, Joanne was totally awoken because she was scared by his actions.

Brian had embraced her more than once but almost when she was unconscious. The only time he held her in his arms when she was awake was that she was kidnapped by the Brothers of Brooks. At that time, he held her down the stairs.

However, it seemed that these two situations were different.

Her heartbeats became faster in an instant like the last time, and her breath was suddenly out of control, but this time, the atmosphere between them seemed to be intimate.

It was not as blunt and awkward as that time.

She refused to get up, and he hugged her helplessly, which seemed to be a natural thing.

The subtle sweetness opened the gate again, and constantly came out from the heart of Joanne. She was nestled in Lu's arms and was happy to laugh.

After entering the restroom, Brian put Joanne down on the bed, and she took his hand while asking, "Do you have any pajamas? Lend me one." It was uncomfortable to sleep in a shirt and jeans, and she did not want to wrinkle her shirt.

"My pajamas doesn't fit you." Brian opened a small closet and took out a shirt for her. "You can wear this."

Joanne looked at the shirt and then at Brian. She felt something evil behind it. Before she could say anything, Brian had already gone out.

She held his shirt with a silly smile for a while before going into the bathroom to change her clothes.

When she came out, the rain outside the window was even heavier. There were lightning and thunder in the sky, and the thundering sounds seemed to blow up the sky. The lightning seemed to break into the room from the window. Joanne sat on the bed, wrapped in the quilt, and suddenly recalled the things that happened when she was ten.

That day, she followed her mother to their old house to see Iris and Brian. She fell asleep at the old house at noon. Later, she was awakened by such lightning and thunder. At that time, she was still the little princess of the Scott Family, too scared to get up from the bed, crying while holding the quilt in her arms.

The sound of the rain covered her crying. No adult heard it and came upstairs to see her. Finally, it was Brian who pushed the door open.

She stretched out her hand to him as if she had seen a helper. Usually, Brian would ignore her, but that day, maybe because she cried too pitifully, he hesitated and finally hugged her before saying in a disdainful tone, "It's just raining with thunders, what are you crying for?"

Despite this, he still patted her back gently.

At that time, she was really scared and was even more afraid that Brian would push her away because she was too timid. Thus, she held him tightly and wept a large piece of his clothes on his chest.

The rain of that day fell suddenly and stopped without any warning, just like Brian at ten years old, who suddenly appeared in her life and soon suddenly left.

When the rain was over and the sky was sunny, she fell asleep again, not knowing whether it was because she was too sleepy or too tired after crying, and there was a rainbow hanging outside her window before she was asleep.

She did not know if she could see a rainbow this time when she was awake.

Just like every nap in the past, Joanne fell asleep in a daze and woke up in confusion.

She checked the time when she woke up, and it was over four o'clock. It was sunny again after the rain, and the glass window was so clear as if it had been washed by spring water. She felt peaceful when looking at it.

She pulled the quilt away and walked to the window to open it. At first, she thought that she had seen something wrong. She blinked and looked again-there was actually a rainbow in the sky.

The rainbow was curved while hanging in the sky, consisting of seven different colors, and behind it was a blue sky and white clouds.

In a city which looked like the forest made of cement, every strand of air was polluted. It was a miracle to see a rainbow and such a sky after rain.

Joanne thought for a moment and found that the last time she had seen the rainbow was with Brian in that old house when she was ten years old.

Could this be a miracle coincidence?

She ran to the door of the room with excitement when she was still in a shirt. She opened the door. "Lu Bo..."

There were other people in Brian's office. One of them was Gavin, and the others were two men she didn't know. Both of them were in suits and attracted by her voice. They looked over at her and were dazed before unnaturally looking away.

Joanne did not expect that there would be other people in the room and felt fortunate that she did not rush out in an impulse, but she realized that she was still wearing Brian's shirt. She was frozen for a second and quickly flashed back to the restroom before closing the door.

Outside the room, Brian's expression was indescribable, and even Gavin had never seen him like this.

The three people seemed to achieve a secret agreement. They stood up together, and Gavin said, "Mr. Brian, we'll leave first. As for the remaining things, we can discuss it on tomorrow's meeting."

Brian got up and went to the restroom, pushing the door open. There was no figure of Joanne in the room, but there was an unnatural arch under the quilt.

He walked over and opened up the quilt. Joanne buried her face in her hands in the bed and complained. "Why did you give me a shirt? Thought the pajamas don't fit me, they are better than a shirt. I will not come to your company anymore."

Brian couldn't help laughing. "You were so excited to run out to look for me just now, what did you want to say?"

Joanne pointed to the window, "Look by yourself."

The restroom and Brian's office faced different directions, therefore, Brian did not notice the rainbow even after it stopped raining.

He raised his eyebrows. "Is there anything wonderful to look at the rainbow? Why are you so excited?"

Joanne got up and covered her exposed legs with the quilt. "When was the last time that you saw a rainbow?"

Brian squinted his eyes and did not answer her for a long time.

Joanne looked disappointed. "You really forgot it."

After a pause, she gave Brian a hint.

"Was there a rainbow at that time?" Brian seemed to have no impression of that. "I only remember that you wetted my quilt and clothes with your tears."

"...Your quilt?" Joanne was astonished at that moment. "The quilt I used was yours? How could it be possible?"

"Why is it impossible?" Brian smiled faintly. "You didn't want to go to sleep in my mom's room and didn't leave my room. Who else could the quilt belong to?"

Joanne felt like being hit by thunder. She was only 10 years old that year; how could she be so shameless to insist on sleeping in Brian's room?

She thought harder about it and faintly remembered that... It seemed to be true. At that time, her mother even teased her. "Joanne, do you like brother Brian?"

Brian saw her expression and knew that she remembered it. He said in a low voice, "Joanne, I suffered loss twice."

Joanne couldn't understand his words. The last time she wetted his clothes and quilts, which made him have to change his clothes and wash his quilts. It was indeed a big loss. But this time... What loss did he suffer?

She looked at Brian blankly, and his lips had covered hers-

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