Mistaking the CEO for a Gigolo

Nicole blurted out the so-called flawless excuse of hers, which she had long rehearsed in her mind countless times, in a sincere and serious manner.

Evan gazed at her with his abysmal pair of eyes. He found her odd because she wouldn’t stop fidgeting with the edge of her shirt.

Knitting his brows together, he neglected the things that she had told him and asked in return because he couldn’t suppress his curiosity anymore.

“I heard that someone has delivered you a gift. What is it?”

Nicole stared at Evan, wide-eyed. She couldn’t figure out who had turned their back against her and told him of the things that they should have kept from him.

If I’m not able to convince Evan, the flawless excuse that I have just made up isn’t going to do me any good, right?

After falling silent for a few seconds, she explained, “It’s a present from my assistant. I thought that something bad might have happened to her when I received the gift. Thus, I rushed over to her place to check if everything was fine.”

“What is it?” Evan decided to probe further into the matter. He thought that there was something fishy going on behind the scene because he noticed that Nicole was being anxious in an odd manner.

reason that she would want to keep him in the

bracelet, but I have returned it to her because it’s not meant to be a gift.

she finished her sentence, Nicole felt as

something to prove the authenticity of her words, but the maid beside her exclaimed, “Oh! It’s a bracelet? I’d thought that it was something horrifying when I’d heard you screaming in the room back then. I’d even heard the sound

thereafter because of the maid’s words. She had never once noticed that the maids of Imperial

nerves were at breaking point due to

in suspicion. It was evident that he was

hearing things?” Nicole decided to put the blame on the maid to get herself out of

at Nicole with an odd look in return because she

Nicole’s words, yet she decided to give up in the end because she was

Nicole’s words, she apologized, “I’m so sorry, Ms.

because she had blamed the maid for something that she hadn’t done. “It’s fine. You should return

the maid left, in spite of the loopholes that he had detected, Evan decided to stop probing further because Nicole seemed to have her reasons for keeping him in the

approached Nicole. Holding her hand,

he detected the scent of the tobacco that

on her dress the last time