Meanwhile, Catelyn brought Miles back to the kindergarten and fretted he would try to provoke the teacher on purpose. To her surprise, however, Miles’s performance was perfect. 

He addressed all the teachers as ‘pretty ladies’ with a smile, his behavior as elegant as a high-born gentleman. Because of that, he enslaved the hearts of many easily, leaving all the teachers with nothing to say but praise him for how adorable he was. 

Miles sneakily winked at Catelyn with a smug look on his face, as though trying to tell her that he was fully capable of making people like him as long as he wanted to. 

Catelyn remained quiet with resignation. 

As soon as she settled the admission procedures, she hurried back to the office. She had only been out for an hour, and she might still be able to convince Anne to consider her working for a full day. 

With that thought in mind, Catelyn sped up, only to run into someone’s warm, strong chest around the corner at the end of the street. 

Thump! 

She lost balance and stumbled to the side as her bag fell to the ground. She held onto the handrail to steady herself before she turned to look. 

It was a tall man with an athletic build. He strode away without stopping and even seemed to be moving faster. 

It was not that big of an issue to begin with, but the fact that he ignored her had provoked Catelyn. Her body acted before her brain, and she grabbed onto his wrist before he left. 

You’re just

was that he at least needed to say something

and caught a whiff of the familiar scent of gardenias.

it. Ever since he had the perfume department in his company manufacture a perfume with gardenia scent four years ago, countless women approached him smelling like gardenia flowers to get close to

hand, the scent on the woman before him was not as intense and smelled more like

before him and realized she resembled Maia in some ways. Instinctively, and not liking to be touched by random women, he spoke, “Let

Catelyn saw the man’s face, her mind went blank. The features and especially the lips of the man looked dangerously

through Catelyn’s mind as she stared

your ex-boyfriend now?” Cedrick looked

you know?”

after Catelyn had asked the question that she realized

was suspected of flirting

my ex. It’s the truth,

lifted her chin. With a

as she probed her hands against his chest nervously to put some distance between them.

to one another that they could feel

lashes quivered even

do something out of line, she heard his devilish, mocking voice from above, “If you want to seduce me, remember to change your perfume

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