My CEO Daddy by ELAINE MALLIN

When their eyes met, Kerr stared at the girl's pupils that were a little stunned. He was mesmerized as the pair of eyes closely resembled Nicole's.

As he continued to study her, he could discern a hint of panic on the young girl's face. He silently watched her, noting every detail of her unsteady physical movement like a frightened kitten. When she managed to pull herself up, she quickened her pace, and almost dashed towards the door. But she instinctively held back when she heard Kerr's distinctive voice. It was distant, and yet it sounded dangerously compelling. She couldn't help but stand frozen in fear.

"Don't make me say it again."

Kerr gazed at the door, and he realized what the surprise that Ken mentioned was. The girl in front of him looked like the one who escaped seven years ago.

The girl's legs were so weak that she wobbled and fell to the ground. She wordlessly stared at him with her watery almond eyes as if she didn't know what had happened.

"I feel so uncomfortable." Her words were barely a whisper. She didn't know what was wrong with her. She felt confused and frightened at the same time.

Scanning the girl's clueless and blushed face, Kerr subconsciously recalled the night seven years ago.

Kerr couldn't contain himself any longer, so he approached her. His face showed a complicated expression as he bent down slowly. Raising his fingers, he lifted her chin gently, fully revealing the girl's profile in front of him. She had a delicate face. Then he exhaled, suddenly realizing that he was holding his breath all this time.

She bore quite a resemblance to Nicole, but she lacked the elegance and confidence of the latter.

Squatting in front of the girl, Kerr suddenly reached out for an empty glass from the table behind. He then directly aimed and threw it at the crack of the door visibly emitting a glimmer of light.

Unexpectedly, in that very second, a beautiful woman suddenly pushed the door open from the other side.

"Ah!"

The glass knocked on Nicole's head with a loud thud.

As a reflex, she reached for her forehead and covered it with her hand. But the sudden dizziness in her head made her unable to support herself to stand firmly.

"Watch out!"

Kerr yelled, pushing the girl in front of him away. Then he raced past her to catch Nicole. His eyes eventually became dark while examining the wound on her forehead.

that he certainly needed to orient Ken

heard the impact of the glass against her. But Nicole was so fast that

"Nicole?"

Leaning in Kerr's arms, she tried to move her head a little to dispel the light-headedness slowly engulfing her but to no avail. She could only see that there were still many stars in the sky

wound on her forehead, and in a steady flow, trickled down in her cheek to

"You..."

take you to the hospital," he

by at Ken, Kerr threw him a meaningful

Kerr's eyes. Looking quite depressed, he couldn't help patting himself

the sound of the broken wine bottle coming from the room. He scurried back as he remembered that there was another

to enter the room and swiftly picked up the girl

at him, she instantly remembered the main reason she traveled to Good Times. And the mere thought of it jolted her fully

"Send me back

She frantically reached out and worriedly

should go to the hospital now,"

face. Luckily, she didn't look in the mirror, he thought, or she

me back to the Good Times. My sister is still waiting

she pleaded. It was not until she received a phone call from her stepmother that she learned that her

your sister

as he asked. It was clear that she broke

"Yes! You were there, too. Did you see

The throbbing pain in her head reminded her of what had happened.

to the hospital. I'll find someone

and called Ken, but he didn't answer his call. As the waiting tone kept reminding him, his face

going? Let's go back.

speck of blood on her finger, she lost her

his head, seeing her sitting

emergency room. He took out his phone again and redialed Ken's number.

from the other end of the