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

at lying, so he didn’t know what

my nose on your first day of work. Do you

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

on him, feeling a little

was the first time she had seen Kieran, who was always haughty and

seemed like

glad to

and took out a sandalwood ruler from the

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

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

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

what

courage, she walked toward

guilty as he watched her come over to him. He had been obedient since he was young and hadn’t caused any trouble. No one had used

then, Inez had already walked up to

up at her and

Face your

of being beaten by a ruler, Inez taught

Kieran followed her instructions.

hand, Inez slapped his palm hard with the

a thin line, he frowned in pain and stifled

she observed the expression on his face at the same time. She didn’t go easy on

stopped and asked in a deep voice,

at his reddened palm

to let you experience the feeling of getting hit with a ruler

Kieran felt

of first times—first time kissing, first time being a secretary, first time apologizing,

Inez was moved.

thought that he was punished because of a mistake, she immediately regained her composure and reprimanded him, “Go ahead and play tricks if you’re not afraid of being punished.

“Okay.”

furrowed her

“Yes, Ms. Mossey.”