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.

pursed his lips. His ears were

wasn’t good at lying, so

day of work. Do you think I won’t punish you just because you have a distinguished

CEO, and I’m your secretary. Feel free to punish

her eyes on him, feeling a little

the first time she had seen Kieran, who

seemed like his

I’m more than glad to help you

desk and took out a sandalwood ruler from the

had interned at the company. Since then, she had been keeping the ruler in the

on Kieran, who was the second son of the Harris

as she pondered about it, there didn’t seem to be anything wrong with teaching her

knew what she was

walked toward Kieran

he watched her come over to him. He had been obedient since he was young and hadn’t caused any trouble.

walked up to him. “Please stretch out your left hand, Mr. Kieran,”

looked up at her and

Face your

of being beaten by a ruler, Inez

Kieran followed her instructions.

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

frowned in pain and stifled

on his face

hitting him ten times, she stopped and asked in a deep voice, “How

his reddened palm

honored to be the one to let you experience the feeling of getting

felt that the pain was worth

first times—first time kissing, first time being a

Inez was moved.

“Go ahead and play tricks if you’re not afraid

“Okay.”

furrowed her brows.

“Yes, Ms. Mossey.”