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 pat her cheeks

up,” he said.

sleepy, Caroline tried to toss around, but Kirk held her

hot chocolate. I don’t want you

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

her as if she were a young

her waist, he helped her up slowly and gingerly so that

on the

opened her mouth to take sip after sip of the hot chocolate. She looked very much

slid under the sheets and started mumbling again.

come sleep too.”

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

want to know what

returned to the swimming pool. The party had ended

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

pale.

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

into the pool after

face was firm. The soft glow of the moonlight

eyes.

muttered. “I was changing upstairs.”

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

heard it, but parties are supposed to be noisy. I

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