Chapter 40

Caroline froze. “How did you know that I’d bought a necktie?”

Kirk glanced at the bag and laughed. “I guessed it. What? Are you reluctant to give it to me?”

“No. I bought it because I wanted to thank you for giving me this bracelet. But now, you’re giving me this painting, and I… I don’t know what to do to express my gratitude,” Caroline mumbled.

Kirk swallowed, a tad touched by her explanation. The worry he’d had vanished into thin air. “Help

me tie it then.”

“Huh?” A blush crept up Caroline’s cheeks. Never in her life had she helped a man tie a tie. Besides, tying a tie for someone meant she had to get close to them, and she’d only do it for

someone she was close to.

Yet now Kirk was asking her to do it for him.

“We’re meeting my father next month, yet we seem distant from each other. We don’t look like a newlywed couple at all. Since you’re thinking of a way to thank me, you can get used to being my

My family won’t doubt our relationship, and they’ll finally stop asking me to get

calm when he spoke, just

lowered her head, somehow disappointed. She’d thought that he …

overthinking things.

to look at him once again, she said, “This

a tie. I’m

as he took off his coat, revealing the white

and Caroline tried to

chest.

the tie into her

decreased, Caroline could feel her heart beating like crazy. It

that she thought it would pop out of her chest.

toes.

was only five feet and four inches

Kirk

them was reduced. They were

his scent. Her hand trembled slightly,

I guess…”

breath tanning out at

her lips stand

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