Chapter 0019

Candice’s straightforwardness left Jackson speechless.

“It’s okay if you can’t.” Candice looked down. She realized she was out of line as well. “I’m just simply asking. Don’t take it seriously.”

Jackson stayed quiet for a moment and asked, “Candice, can I ask why?”

“Nothing. It’s just that I’ve been single for too long and I should try dating,” she

said.

She did not mention Alex at all, and Jackson did not ask.

After dinner, Jackson sent Candice home.

At the neighborhood’s entrance, they ran into Alex.

Alex’s black Bentley was parked next to Jackson’s car. He glanced at Candice, who had just come out of the car, before looking at Jackson.

Jackson nodded at him. “Good evening.”

Alex hummed and then with a meaningful look, he said, “Ms. Renault, it seems like you are not just good at being a secretary.”

Candice noticed his sneer in between the lines but she could not understand why.

He already had Sonia, and because of the girl’s insecurity, he hinted at her to find a boyfriend regardless of doing it openly and secretly.

Yet he sneered and teased her in front of Jackson.

looked down for a bit before she parted ways with Jackson. “Thank you. I’ll return the jacket after I

okay.

Jackson was being

what she proposed to him earlier was considered offensive, then she would have crossed Jackson’s boundary already.

he was young and

right about her menstrual cycle. It came

middle of the night, causing her to

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turned pale. She got up to take some painkillers and curled up

knocked her out after a while and when she opened

it was

aching all over, and her

was buzzing on the table as messages

random group chat with Alex’s friends and they were talking about going somewhere

for a moment. She texted the group,

unwell and could not show

went to the kitchen

corn soup was soothing and it warmed

through the soup, the doorbell rang.

the spoon down to answer the door.

in his casual outfit, was standing at

looked at her and frowned. “You caught a

It’s just my period,”

period had always been on time and Alex used to remember her

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