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
relationship, and they’ll
voice was calm when he spoke,
somehow disappointed. She’d thought that he …
overthinking things.
him once again,
with a tie. I’m
as he took off his coat, revealing
tried to calm down
chest.
tie into her hands and
Caroline could feel her heart
pop out of her
toes.
feet and
figure. Noticing this, Kirk crouched slightly.
reduced. They were in such close proximity that
smell his scent. Her hand trembled
…
I guess…”
lighed his warm breath
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