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 her

up,” he said.

Caroline tried to toss around, but Kirk held her legs

good. Get up and have some hot chocolate. I

don’t want that. I’m tired. I want

as if she were a

her up slowly and gingerly so that the ointment on

rub off on

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

she slid under the sheets and started

come sleep too.”

her cheek, Kirk pulled the blanket over her

dialed Charles‘ number and said, “I want to know what happened at the pool

hour later, Kirk returned to the swimming pool. The party had ended long ago, and there wasn’t

thing that moved was the rippling water under the lights. Avery stood near Kirk, her face

pale.

She had grown up with him, so she knew just

jumped into the pool after getting surrounded by all those

firm. The soft glow of the moonlight only served to emphasize the coldness in

eyes.

muttered. “I was changing

saying that you didn’t hear a thing even

supposed to be noisy. I didn’t think much

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