Chapter 79

Nicole was about to say something until she saw the injury on Colton's face.

Then, she chose to quietly lower her head as she gobbled up her food.

After picking up the courage to look at the man again to say something, she was stopped by Annie, who had abruptly entered the room.

"Miss Anderson," she started. "I have washed and dried your clothes. They are now in your room upstairs."

"Alright. Thank you," Nicole quickly nodded and said her thanks.

With a smile on her face, Annie replied, "You are welcome."

Right when she was about to head upstairs, Colton suddenly called out to her from behind. "Come down after you've changed into your working attire. We'll go to work together."

Nicole only gave a simple 'Okay' as she nodded in response. At the same time, she couldn't help but

take a peek at Colton's face. Seeing that he didn't seem to be in a particularly bad mood, she let out a sigh of relief before hurrying upstairs.

much time to change into something else. They soon got into Colton's

to each other throughout their journey on the road. Nicole was the first one to break the silence when she gingerly brandished a Band-Aid she had procured from Annie on her

piece of Band-Aid,

way too conspicuous to

hand, and with raised brows, he humorously asked in return, "You think this Band-Aid on me can hide

"It can at least cover a

turned and started to walk away

ignored, Nicole's gaze started to shift between the man's retreating figure and the Band-Aid in her

couldn't understand his anger. After all, he was hurt consecutively 3 times because of

when she recalled how she had kicked Colton out of the bed that morning, but she soon brought herself out of her reverie with a shake of her head. Then, she immediately started making her way to her

girl seated in her office. With her little back toward Nicole, she had her head tilted downward as she swiped the screen of her phone. Besides that, the sound of her phone was set on speaker at

She then took small steps toward the girl and lightly knocked on the

girl's head whipped around to look at the source of the voice as she began to blatantly stare at Nicole. Her eyebrows began to wiggle mischievously as a smile appeared on her face. At that moment, Nicole couldn't

the young girl kept her phone away before staring into Nicole's eyes. "I saw Colton carrying you home last

sentence, yet one could easily tell that there were

Nicole asked with uncertainty after raking

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