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

and they’ll finally stop asking

calm when he spoke, just

somehow disappointed. She’d thought that he …

overthinking things.

to look at him once again,

with a tie. I’m not used

he took off his coat, revealing

Caroline tried to calm down by

chest.

took the tie into her

decreased, Caroline could feel her heart beating

out of her chest. She took a deep

toes.

tall, and she was only five feet and four inches tall.

Noticing this, Kirk crouched slightly.

They were in

trembled slightly,

I guess…”

lighed his warm breath tanning out

light make–up, which made her lips stand out. There was always this naive and serene look in her

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