My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)
Chapter 137

She smiled forcefully and said, "Director, that's not what I mean. You know I rarely bring up my private life with people in the company. Besides, the female employees were told that we can't get married nor have kids in the first five years joining the company."

No doubt, the Roberts Group was a good company. But when Dalton first started the company, he considered how the marital and maternity leave entitled to female employees might affect their job performance. As a result, he laid down a rule for female employees to not get married nor have kids for the first five years after being employed.

That rule was unreasonable in the first place, so when Hendrix took over the company, he didn't stress to execute that rule. But since it was set by his grandfather, Hendrix couldn't just remove it from the system. Even so, he wouldn't make things difficult if a female employee came up to him to apply for marital or maternity leave.

However, that was Kelsey's private life, and it wouldn't be appropriate if I asked any further. So I smiled and said, "It's fine if you don't want to share. I'm just curious."

After handing over the documents, I said to her, "Go ahead and do your work. Since Hendrix has decided to personally monitor Alford Audit's matter, you should spend more time and energy on it. Not to mention, you also have to conclude Brilliant Audit's auditing report."

"Sure!" she replied.

Seeing that she went out of the office, I looked up at the clock. It was already noon.

I felt strange. According to Hendrix's recent behavior, he should have already come to take me to lunch by this time.

A sudden knock on the office door startled me. I looked up to see Josiah hurried in. Before I could say anything, he was already pulling me away from the office.

"Doctor Saunders, what's wrong?" I asked. With my short legs, I couldn't keep up with him. I was basically trotting behind him the whole time.

After entering the elevator, he frowned and said in a deep voice, "Hendrix got into a car accident. He's now at the emergency room."

A car accident?

I was confused. He was still fine the night before.

"How is he? How did the accident happen?" I questioned. With Hendrix's driving skills, he could easily participate in the National Championship. How did he, of all people, end up in a traffic collision? "Let's get to the hospital first," Josiah said. Then without saying much, he took me to his car after coming out of the elevator.

Josiah was driving very fast all the way, and it didn't take long for us to arrive at the hospital.

I followed him to the emergency room, only to see Austin was already guarding by the entrance.

"What happened?" Josiah asked while catching a breath from how fast he walked.

Austin looked fine, but he didn't answer Josiah's question. He glared at me with slight embarrassment and then cast his glance away towards the end of the corridor.

I followed his gaze and looked in that direction. Then I understood Austin's expression. Andrea was standing there with messy hair and some wounds on the back of her hand. She looked a little disarranged. "I wasn't at the scene either, so I don't know what happened," Austin said before walking towards Andrea.

I snorted.

It was clear to me what really happened, seeing how Hendrix and Andrea were injured together.

"Mr. Roberts' family!" A doctor called out. He had just walked out from the emergency room with medical records in hand.

"Doctor! Is Hendrix alright?" Andrea stood up and asked as soon as she heard the doctor's voice.

As a fellow physician, Josiah was calmer than most of us. He looked at the doctor and asked, "How is the patient doing now?"

"The patient is still in a coma for now since he hit his head. We can only learn the specifics once the patient wakes up. Also, pieces of glasses got into the patient's ribs, and they are deep. Well have to perform

a minor surgery after getting informed consent from the patient's family. Is any of the patient's family members present?" The doctor explained and looked around us while he got the papers ready.

Andrea was anxious and said in a hurry, "1-1 will sign it!"

The doctor nodded and asked, "Miss, what's your relationship with the patient?"

Andrea froze and bit her lips.

I was standing aside with my arms crossed and asked lightly, "Will it be legally effective if the patient's mistress signed the papers?"