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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.

bit before she parted ways with Jackson. “Thank you. I’ll return the jacket after I clean it.”

a smile. “It’s okay. It’s just one

knew Jackson was being

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

gentleman since he was young and

her menstrual cycle. It came early.

middle of the night,

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to take some painkillers

and when she opened her

it was

all over, and her hands and

phone was buzzing on the table as messages spammed her.

a random group chat with Alex’s friends and they were talking

for a moment. She texted the

and could not show up.

down and went to the kitchen to prepare some

warm corn soup was soothing and it

soup, the

spoon down to answer the door.

outfit, was standing at

and frowned. “You caught a cold?”

my period,” Candice

on time and Alex used to remember her