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

at lying, so he didn’t know

face was gloomy. “You’re playing tricks right under my nose on your first day of work. Do you think I

hard, Kieran clenched his fists. “In this office, you’re the CEO, and I’m your secretary. Feel free

her eyes on him, feeling a little taken

Kieran, who was always haughty

she seemed like his

than glad to help you complete your childhood memories,

and took out a sandalwood ruler from

cousin brother who had interned at the company. Since then, she had been keeping the ruler

for using it on Kieran, who was the second son of the Harris family

be anything wrong with teaching her secretary

she knew what

walked toward

hadn’t caused any trouble. No one had used a ruler to hit him before, so

up to him.

he looked up at her

fingers. Face your

had no experience of being beaten by a ruler, Inez

Kieran followed her instructions.

moment he spread his hand, Inez slapped his palm hard with the ruler. A stinging pain seared through

line, he frowned in pain and stifled the urge to withdraw his

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

him ten times, she stopped and asked in a deep

looked at his reddened palm and said honestly, “It

the feeling of getting hit with a ruler for the first

Kieran felt that the pain

her, he said seriously, “There are actually a lot of first times—first time kissing, first time being

Inez was moved.

and reprimanded him, “Go ahead and play tricks if you’re not afraid of being punished. The tasks in these seven days will only increase. Please be prepared,

“Okay.”

furrowed her

“Yes, Ms. Mossey.”