The Ex and Her Riches novel (Gwendolyn and Maverick)

All the deleted documents were gone.

Kieran wasn’t upset by it. He continued to translate the remaining three documents.

However, his typing speed had slowed down a lot.

Once again, silence ensued in the office. Nobody said anything more.

Time seemed to tick by faster when everyone was busy. In the blink of an eye, an hour had passed.

Inez began to pack up her stuff to get off work. “Once you’re done organizing the translated documents, send them to me,” she said casually.

Kieran paused what he was doing and turned to look at her. “Aren’t you going to check them?”

“You’ve finished translating. What is there for me to check?”

Kieran lowered his gaze, finding it hard to speak. “I… I have two more documents left to be translated.”

Inez was stunned. She shot him a look and asked, “You had three documents left one hour ago. And now, there are still two left? What have you been doing for the past hour?”

Inez carefully recalled and didn’t remember seeing Kieran slacking off. He had indeed been focusing on his translation.

Kieran’s face stiffened slightly. He didn’t make any response.

Inez walked over suspiciously and took a look at his computer screen. Soon, she noticed something was amiss.

“I came by earlier and saw that you had translated these documents. Why are they gone? Are you trying to fool me?”

“I accidentally deleted them, so I had to translate them all over again,” Kieran explained calmly.

Inez stared at him in confusion. She immediately clicked the recycle bin on his computer, but it was empty.

“So you’re saying that you accidentally deleted them from the recycle bin too?” she teased.

Kieran fell silent.

“Even if you happened to delete the files for real, judging from your ability, you should be able to translate them again in no time. Do you think I’m easy to fool?” she went on.

his lips. His ears were slightly

wasn’t good at lying, so he didn’t know what

under my nose on your first day of work. Do you think I won’t punish you just because you have a distinguished

this office, you’re the CEO, and I’m your secretary. Feel free to punish me for the mistakes

her eyes on him, feeling

the first time she had seen Kieran,

seemed like

that case, I’m more than glad to help

desk and took

she had used that to educate her cousin brother who had interned at the company. Since then, she had been keeping the ruler

a little bad for using it on Kieran, who was the second son of the Harris family and also the most powerful man in

about it, there didn’t seem to be anything wrong with teaching her secretary a lesson

what she

she walked toward Kieran with steady

had been obedient since he was young and hadn’t caused any trouble. No one had used a ruler to hit him before, so he didn’t know how

apple bobbed. By then, Inez had already walked up to him. “Please stretch out your left hand, Mr.

looked up at her and

fingers. Face your palm

had no experience of being beaten by a ruler, Inez taught him

Kieran followed her instructions.

hand, Inez slapped his palm hard with the ruler. A stinging

his lips into a thin line, he frowned in

him with the ruler, she observed the expression on his face at

and asked in a deep voice, “How

looked at his reddened palm

the feeling of getting hit with a ruler for the

felt that the

he said seriously, “There are actually a lot of first times—first time kissing, first time being a secretary, first time apologizing, and the list

Inez was moved.

because of a mistake, she immediately regained her composure and reprimanded him, “Go ahead and play tricks

“Okay.”

furrowed her

“Yes, Ms. Mossey.”