Chapter 18

Once again, Gwen’s imagination rendered Caroline speechless. “If he truly is some rich man’s son, why would he marry me so quickly?”

Gwen scratched her head, searching for an answer that never came to her. Caroline smiled, amused. “Fine. I’ll ask him about it when I go back home. Then we’ll get our answer.”

“Oh, right,” Gwen said, beaming.

After the two of them said goodbye, Caroline gave Kirk a call. “Let’s have dinner together tonight.” Even though they were married, they stayed in their respective homes. Strictly speaking, they had never even had lunch or dinner together. “Sure,” Kirk replied, the corner of his lips already tilting upward in a smile.

“Well then, come to my house. What do you want for dinner? I’ll go buy the ingredients to make it.”

“Just cook something you like.”

Eddy’s face suddenly popped into her mind. Whenever she made dinner for him over the past eight years, he would always list out the dishes that he wanted. He never asked her about the food she liked. It was as if she never had a favorite food.

“Alright,” Caroline replied. Although the sun had set, signaling the end of the day, her voice was bright and cheery.

Affected by her spirit, Kirk said in a soft voice, “Wait for me

to come home.”

Caroline muttered a “Yes,” hung up,

” Recently, Easton’s market has focused on cosmetics. Do any of you have anything to say about the results of this survey?”

shook their heads in unison. They assumed that Kirk’s gentle side was merely a

grabbed his phone and documents, and left the meeting room, leaving the company’s executives staring blankly at each other in confusion. These

years. This was their first time seeing him leave the office early, and it was needless to say that

were all astonished.

from Sean just when he reached the

guess who I met

around

Kirk was about to end the call, Sean cut straight to the point and said, “I met your wife! She was at the jewelry store in

the bracelet. He

his conversation with Caroline not long ago and could not remember anything strange about it. The drive back to Caroline’s

still on. A smile spread across her face when she saw Kirk at the door.” You’re here.” She took

was cozy. There was no TV in the living room; there was a sofa

with a teddy bear printed on it. Her face was red,

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touched her. Kirk froze, and after a moment, he let his hand slide slowly down to her soft lips. Now, it was

met, and a chill ran up her

she pushed Kirk away. “T–This isn’t in our contract…” She stuttered so much that

said, “Yep, it isn’t. But if we were in public and you had pushed me away as you did just now, others would start to doubt our relationship as man

reply. “So you’re saying

our cover, right?” After knowing that Kirk was married, Jude had started asking him to bring her home to meet her and never ceased urging him to do so. He never expected

come.

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