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 pat her cheeks to arouse her

up,” he said.

but Kirk held

good. Get up and have some hot chocolate. I don’t want you to get sick.”

want that.

He coaxed her as if she were a young

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

on

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

slid under the sheets and started mumbling again. “I

sleep too.”

pulled the blanket over her shoulders. Then, he

and said, “I want to know what happened at the pool

Kirk returned to the swimming pool. The party had ended long

moved was the rippling water under the

pale.

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

you when Carrie jumped into the pool after getting surrounded

the moonlight only served to emphasize the coldness in his

eyes.

and muttered. “I was

hear a

heard it, but parties are supposed to be noisy. I didn’t think much about it,” Avery explained.

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