Chapter 197

“No way. Don’t be silly.” Gilbert paused, a look of confusion crossing his face. “Why would you even think that?”

Caroline laughed, hiding her displeasure behind a playful smirk. “Just kidding. Why so serious?”

She continued, “I’m here on business.”

Nexus Media Group, a subsidiary of the Johnson Group, naturally had its offices within the grand Johnson Group building.

Today, she had come to hand over her responsibilities to her agent, aiming to scale back her workload as much as possible. Any ongoing projects, of

course, had to be completed.

“All settled.” Standing up, Caroline added, “Just thought I’d drop by and say hi. I’ve got to go now. Big show tonight.”

“Okay,” Gilbert nodded. “I won’t keep you…”

“Oh, right.” Before Gilbert could finish, Caroline glimpsed the two brown paper packages on the coffee table, pointing at them curiously. “What’s these?”

“Oh, these?” Gilbert had just noticed them himself then. They were the candy apples he had asked his secretary to buy.

“It’s candy apples,” he admitted.

“Huh?” Caroline couldn’t help but laugh. “Since when did you start liking

these?”

say they

for snacking,” he said vaguely.

they good?” Bending down, Caroline opened one of the packages

candy into her mouth. “Hmm, pretty good.”

up the now–unwrapped package. “Here, you

chuckled. “Isn’t this

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are you saying?” Gilbert laughed. “It’s just a bag of desserts.

Caroline had opened it, he couldn’t give

“Just kidding. Thanks, I’ll

Gilbert replied, “Sure.”

expression darkened instantly. Candy apples for himself? She would never believe such

Sherilyn, right?

Riding the elevator to the lobby, Caroline saw the receptionist leading Sherilyn toward the CEO’s private elevator.

instructions from the CEO’s office.

out, “Sherilyn!”

turned at the call and

her.

frowned. “What do you want?”

smirked, “Just saying hi when I saw you. That’s

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