Jess thought since it was her first weekend in Mumbai she could go out and explore the city, however, Dr. Sison gave her enough paperwork to bury herself.

She hasn't seen June since they arrived. She asked Aadir and he told her that June hasn't come home since they had arrived. She was in the lab. He knew because one of the women packed some clothes and toiletries for her.

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Jess wondered what they were working on in the lab that they couldn't leave. Their house wasn't far from the laboratory, and ANAT employed a driver who brought them there and back.

There shouldn't be a reason for them to sleep in the lab, but they all did. Jess had never experienced such a sense of helplessness. By giving her files about which she has no idea what they are about, she felt that Dr. Sison was not serious at all to mentor her and was just humoring her.

Just like now, for example, Dr. Sison is in the laboratory but instead of taking her since she was her assistant, she was left at home where her given task was to organize her files, read the document she left and that was it.

She wondered if Dr. Sison has a plan to bring her into the team or she will be forever filing her documents, encoding, and even dictation. She was doing all of it. She was really thinking of asking Dr. Sison if she needed a secretary.

She glanced at the time, it was already two in the morning. She could sleep but she doesn't want to leave the files that needed to be filed unfinished.

She doesn't mind sleeping late tonight since tomorrow is still the weekend. She doesn't have anywhere to go. So, she decided to just work on whatever reading Dr. Sison would give her.

Markus promised to take her around but after picking them up at the airport, taking them to a good restaurant, she didn't see him again.

It seemed like everyone was busy at the lab and she was the only one who files documents and basically does nothing during the day.

The coffee shop became her office with how often she went there to work.

When she finally finished the last document. A yawn escaped her lips as she stretched her arms over her head. Sleep is slowly engulfing her but she fought it. She needed to wash up before climbing her bed.

She stood up from the chair and walked to the door of Dr. Sison's study in the house. As she walked, she kept on bending her body left and right. Her muscles were cramped after sitting for a long time.

She was rolling her neck to ease the taut muscles on her shoulder when she jumped in surprise.

"Sorry, Miss Zimmerman if I startled you," said Aadir.

He was waiting for Jess in the hallway.

She gave Aadir a tired smile. She wanted to ask him what he was doing in the hallway but she was so tired, she had no energy to say anything, so she just smiled.

"Let me draw your bath, Miss Zimmerman," he smiled.

Jess knitted her eyebrows, "It's late Aadir. You should sleep."

"But Miss Zimmerman, my boss told me you must have your bath before going to bed."

Before Jess had no idea who owned the villa they were staying in since Aadir told her that the previous owner of the laboratory ANAT Pharma and Co. gave this villa to Mr. Tiefenbacher when he acquired the company.

ANAT was owned by three generations of Tiefenbacher. She had no idea which Tiefenbacher received the villa as a gift. But now, Aadir was telling him that his boss wanted to make sure that she took a bath before going to bed. Jess knew that it was Noah who owned this villa!

She has no energy left to argue with Aadir, hence, when she opened the door of her bedroom, she invited him to enter and told him to go ahead and prepare her bath.

While Aadir was preparing her bath, she walked to her closet and took out a fresh change of clothes. She chose another old college shirt from Noah. His old shirts and hoodies were now her favorite sleeping wear. She used to wear a lot of band shirts but since she found Noah's old shirts at the back of his closet, she took all of them and used them as her pajamas.

Noah doesn't seem to mind.

"Miss Zimmerman, your bath is ready." Aadir bid her goodnight and left her room.

She watched the door closed behind Aadir and found it strange to have someone act as her butler, drawing her a bath in the middle of the night.

She slowly moved to the bathroom and found the tub filled with warm water. There's also a lighted candle on the bathroom counter.

Aadir was too good at his job and once she's back to the states, she would definitely miss him. Or maybe, she could ask Noah to bring Aadir to the states. She giggled with the thought as she stepped inside the tub.

She stood in the tub for a few minutes before lowering herself in the warm water. It's already late and she has no plan to soak for a long time. She just wanted the warm water to ease the fatigue on her body from working on her ass all day.

She slid down her body on the length of the tub, submerging her whole body in the warm water, and felt better.

She had no plan to soak for a long time but the water felt too good on her skin and tired muscles. She closed her eyes for a minute and when she opened her eyes the water in the tub was cold and she was shaking.

'Fuck, how long did I stay on the tub?'

She wanted to stand up, but her body was so heavy and her eyes were beginning to blur.

"Help," her voice was hoarse from being in the water for too long.

Jess tried to get out of the tub, but her body had no strength to move, and the last thing she remembered was hitting her arm against the tub wall before everything turned black.