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.

both her feet did he

he said.

around, but Kirk held her legs together to stop

have some hot chocolate. I

and mumbled, “I don’t want that. I’m tired.

He coaxed her as if she were a young

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

off on the

her mind was still groggy. She absentmindedly opened her mouth to take sip after sip of the hot chocolate. She looked very

under the sheets and started mumbling

come sleep too.”

the blanket over her shoulders. Then, he stood up and walked out to the balcony.

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

party had ended long ago, and there wasn’t a person in sight.

the rippling water under the lights. Avery stood near Kirk,

pale.

silence made her heart clench in fear. She had grown up with him, so she knew just how

into the pool after getting surrounded by all those people?”

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

eyes.

and muttered. “I was changing upstairs.”

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

noisy. I didn’t think much

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