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

relationship, and they’ll finally stop asking me to

spoke, just like

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

overthinking things.

eyes to look at him once again, she said, “This is my first time

with a tie. I’m

Kirk told her as he took off

tried to calm down by resting

chest.

the tie into her hands and walked

decreased, Caroline could feel her heart beating like crazy.

it would pop out of her chest. She

toes.

was only five feet and four

Noticing this, Kirk crouched slightly. “Is this

distance between them was reduced. They were in such

his scent. Her hand trembled slightly, and she muttered almost unintelligibly,

I guess…”

breath

her lips stand out. There was always this naive and serene

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