Chapter 1921

John’s study was inside another courtyard.

Caprice walked to the adjacent courtyard.

Upon her arrival, she noticed that the windows of the study were open. Her eyes shone. She quickly tiptoed to the window, careful to not make any noise.

She heard voices coming from inside the study.

“It’s a very new project. If you’re planning to expand its scope, why don’t we work on it together? I just happen to be planning to expand into the Glanchester market.”

It was Liam’s voice. There was a gravitas in his voice that one usually would not expect coming from a person in his mid-twenties.

She could not resist the urge to poke her head through the window and steal a peek inside.

Liam and her father were seated on separate armchairs.

Her father was in the middle of taking a sip from a teacup. He started shifting some documents around on the table, and that was when he suddenly directed a piercing gaze in Caprice’s direction.

and quickly

of her sudden jerk of movement, she accidentally bumped into the wall.

by the pain, she groaned

then he quickly

was squatting on the ground, massaging a spot on her head with her fingers. The pain started to

it and prepared to get up, and that was when she noticed someone offering a hand to her from the

up with a

the slightly swollen part of her head while casting a displeased look into her eyes.

“I didn’t

continued massaging her forehead before asking. “Does it still hurt?”

Caprice answered with a childlike

at her and proceeded to pinch her fleshy cheeks.

his face which was cool with composure,

to do, and now she finally had a chance to.

briefly

to pinch

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