Chapter 40
Caroline froze. “How did you know that I’d bought a necktie?”
Kirk glanced at the bag and laughed. “I guessed it. What? Are you reluctant to give it to me?”
“No. I bought it because I wanted to thank you for giving me this bracelet. But now, you’re giving me this painting, and I… I don’t know what to do to express my gratitude,” Caroline mumbled.
Kirk swallowed, a tad touched by her explanation. The worry he’d had vanished into thin air. “Help
me tie it then.”
“Huh?” A blush crept up Caroline’s cheeks. Never in her life had she helped a man tie a tie. Besides, tying a tie for someone meant she had to get close to them, and she’d only do it for
someone she was close to.
Yet now Kirk was asking her to do it for him.
“We’re meeting my father next month, yet we seem distant from each other. We don’t look like a newlywed couple at all. Since you’re thinking of a way to thank me, you can get used to being my
and they’ll finally
spoke, just
head, somehow disappointed. She’d thought that he …
overthinking things.
him once again, she said, “This is my first
a tie. I’m not used
off his coat, revealing the
into view, and Caroline tried to calm down by resting one hand
chest.
took the tie into her hands and walked up
the distance between them decreased, Caroline could feel her heart beating
out of her chest. She took a deep
toes.
too tall, and she was only five feet and four inches tall. She
this, Kirk crouched slightly. “Is this
between them was reduced. They
scent. Her hand trembled slightly, and she muttered almost
…
I guess…”
lighed his warm breath tanning out at
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