Bogus Billionaire By Shining Riviera

Chapter 41

Caroline’s eyes fluttered open to see Kirk smirking at her. “What are you doing?” he asked, amused.

Immediately, her face flushed red. “N–nothing!”

“But you closed your eyes just now-”

“I was… I just couldn’t make myself look at the tie.” In her haste, she told him the first excuse she could come up with. She looked around the spot she was standing in, trying to think of a way to get out of this predicament.

Suddenly, the painting he’d given her popped into her mind, and she mumbled, “I–I have to keep the painting somewhere… I’m going back to my room.” With that, she darted out of the dining room and into her room, closing the door with a bang.

Kirk watched her the entire time. As he stared at the closed door of her bedroom, the smile in his eyes faded and was replaced with his usual icy look.

He’d almost lost control of himself… and he’d never done that in front of a woman before!

Maybe Sean was right. Maybe he did like Caroline a bit. But that didn’t mean that it was love!

her blanket. She hid, as if she could delude

her face with her hands when she recalled what had happened and immediately felt the urge to dig a hole and bury herself in it. What the heck

as if she’d

Right! Bewitched!

reacted like that because Kirk was too handsome! She definitely wasn’t in love

her phone rang, making her jump out of her skin. She glanced

Gwen.

“You scared me! Why are you even calling me at

can’t I call you now? Don’t tell me that you were doing

into her mouth. Her mind

you sound very guilty

your ass.” Caroline buried herself deeper into the depths of her blankets. “Why are you

one who knows me best!” Gwen started sounding

“Why?”

came from the other end of the line. “When I switched on my phone today, I got thousands of

trying to get positive publicity, but when I clicked the notifications, the news was all about Brie and her people cornering us at the auction

of nowhere at that time. “Weren’t those reporters