Chapter 137

Kirk’s heart missed a beat. One of his hands was still placed against the door as he asked, “What happened?”

Henry then briefed him about what had happened before.

Kirk fell silent afterward, unsettling Henry. “Mr. Kirk, did I do something wrong?”

“You’ve done a good job.” Kirk assured Henry, despite the gloom in his eyes.

“You’ll be the new owner of this hotel starting–tomorrow.”

Henry’s eyes turned as wide as saucers when he heard that. He stared in a daze at the closed door before him, flabbergasted.

He was merely one of the staff there. How did he just turn into its boss all of a sudden?

In the room, Kirk carefully took off Caroline’s shoes. Once her feet were bare, he finally saw the

cuts and blisters on the bottom of her feet. His eyes widened in shock.

After taking out the bottle of ointment from the bag that Henry gave him, he started to slowly and

apply the ointment.

was done with both her feet did he pat her cheeks to arouse her

up,” he

to toss around, but Kirk held

chocolate. I don’t want you to

mumbled, “I don’t want

as if

her waist, he helped her up slowly and

off on

Caroline was sitting up now, her mind was still groggy. She absentmindedly opened her mouth to take sip after sip of the hot chocolate. She looked very much like a cute little

sheets and started mumbling again. “I wanna sleep…

sleep too.”

over her shoulders. Then, he stood up and walked out to the balcony.

said, “I want to know what happened at the

hour later, Kirk returned to the swimming pool. The party had

only thing that moved was the rippling water under the lights. Avery stood near Kirk, her

pale.

silence made her heart clench in fear. She had grown up with him, so she knew just how terrifying he could

Carrie jumped into the pool after getting surrounded by all

glow of the moonlight only served to emphasize the coldness in

eyes.

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