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.

change into something else. They soon got into Colton's

first one to break the silence when she gingerly brandished a Band-Aid

you like a piece of Band-Aid,

conspicuous to be left out in the

brows, he humorously asked in return, "You think this Band-Aid on

grumbled, "It can

turned and started to

the man's retreating figure and the Band-Aid in her

wasn't like she couldn't understand his anger. After all,

she recalled how she had kicked Colton out of the bed that morning, but she soon brought herself out of

sight of a petite young 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 a loud volume without consideration

knocked on the surface 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 help but notice

that her interest was piqued, the young girl kept her phone away before staring into Nicole's eyes. "I saw

could easily tell that there were tons of hidden messages underlying

asked with uncertainty after

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