Chapter 137

Kirk’s heart missed a beat. One of his hands was still placed against the door as he asked, “What happened?”

Henry then briefed him about what had happened before.

Kirk fell silent afterward, unsettling Henry. “Mr. Kirk, did I do something wrong?”

“You’ve done a good job.” Kirk assured Henry, despite the gloom in his eyes.

“You’ll be the new owner of this hotel starting–tomorrow.”

Henry’s eyes turned as wide as saucers when he heard that. He stared in a daze at the closed door before him, flabbergasted.

He was merely one of the staff there. How did he just turn into its boss all of a sudden?

In the room, Kirk carefully took off Caroline’s shoes. Once her feet were bare, he finally saw the

cuts and blisters on the bottom of her feet. His eyes widened in shock.

After taking out the bottle of ointment from the bag that Henry gave him, he started to slowly and

gently apply the ointment.

he was done with both her feet did he pat her cheeks to arouse

he

to toss around, but Kirk held

chocolate. I don’t want you to get sick.”

and mumbled, “I don’t want that. I’m

He coaxed her as if she were a young

one hand on her waist, he helped her up slowly and gingerly so that the

rub off on the sheets.

up now, her mind was still groggy. She absentmindedly opened her mouth to take sip after sip of

finishing the drink, she slid under the sheets and started mumbling again. “I wanna sleep…

sleep too.”

pulled the blanket over her

“I want to know what happened at

swimming pool. The party had ended long ago, and there wasn’t a person in

rippling water under

pale.

made her heart clench in fear. She had grown up with him,

were you when Carrie jumped into the pool after

glow of the moonlight only served to emphasize the coldness

eyes.

“I was

you saying that you didn’t hear a thing even though

but parties are supposed to be noisy. I didn’t think

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