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

won’t doubt our relationship, and they’ll finally stop asking me

when he spoke, just like the look

head, somehow disappointed. She’d

overthinking things.

at him once again, she

I’m not used

took off his coat, revealing the white shirt

chest came into view, and Caroline tried to calm down by resting one

chest.

the tie into her

could

her chest. She took a deep breath and

toes.

too tall, and she was only five feet and four inches tall. She looked tiny before

this, Kirk

reduced. They were in

hand trembled slightly, and she muttered almost unintelligibly,

I guess…”

breath tanning

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