Bogus Billionaire by Shining Riviera

Chapter 18

Once again, Gwen’s imagination rendered Caroline speechless. “If he truly is some rich man’s son, why would he marry me so quickly?”

Gwen scratched her head, searching for an answer that never came to her. Caroline smiled, amused. “Fine. I’ll ask him about it when I go back home. Then we’ll get our answer.”

“Oh, right,” Gwen said, beaming.

After the two of them said goodbye, Caroline gave Kirk a call. “Let’s have dinner together tonight.” Even though they were married, they stayed in their respective homes. Strictly speaking, they had never even had lunch or dinner together. “Sure,” Kirk replied, the corner of his lips already tilting upward in a smile.

“Well then, come to my house. What do you want for dinner? I’ll go buy the ingredients to make it.”

“Just cook something you like.”

Eddy’s face suddenly popped into her mind. Whenever she made dinner for him over the past eight years, he would always list out the dishes that he wanted. He never asked her about the food she liked. It was as if she never had a favorite food.

“Alright,” Caroline replied. Although the sun had set, signaling the end of the day, her voice was bright and cheery.

Affected by her spirit, Kirk said in a soft voice, “Wait for me

…

to come home.”

muttered

around him and said, ” Recently, Easton’s market has focused on cosmetics. Do

heads in unison. They assumed that Kirk’s gentle side was merely a fleeting

his phone and documents, and left the meeting room, leaving the company’s executives staring blankly at each other

than ten years. This was their first time seeing him leave the office early, and it was needless to

were all astonished.

call from Sean just

I met today?”

beating around

if knowing Kirk was about to end the call, Sean cut straight to the point and said, “I met your wife! She was

not hold back his laughter now. When they both attended the auction that day, he had assumed it was because Kirk wanted to participate in the grandest auction in Easton. In the end, they left right after Kirk got the bracelet. He had been wondering to whom Kirk would give the bracelet before he chanced upon the latter driving to the hospital. The eagerness on his face then made Sean suspicious about Kirk and Caroline’s relationship. Were they really just

anything strange about it. The drive back to Caroline’s place was no longer

smile spread across her face when she saw Kirk at the

kitchen and then glanced around the house. It was not huge, but it was cozy. There was no TV in the living room; there was a sofa set and table. A pot of spider plant stood in one corner of the room. It was simple yet

the kitchen, carrying the soup pot with her. Kirk’s gaze fell on her. She was wearing an apron with a teddy bear printed on it.

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them shuddered from the spark of static when he touched her. Kirk froze, and after a moment, he let his hand slide slowly down to her soft lips. Now, it was Caroline’s turn to freeze.

lips met, and a chill ran

“T–This isn’t in

at the sight of the blushing young woman before him. He licked his lips and said, “Yep, it isn’t. But if we were in public and you had pushed me away as you did just now,

to reply. “So you’re

next month. You don’t want to blow our cover, right?” After knowing that Kirk was married, Jude had started asking him to

come.

Kirk’s family was abroad. This meant that she would have to go overseas. Foreigners were usually pretty open–minded, so kissing should be common to them. This would also