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

the

both her feet did he pat her cheeks to arouse her from

up,” he said.

Caroline tried to toss around, but Kirk held

hot chocolate. I

then pouted and mumbled, “I don’t want that. I’m tired. I want

He coaxed her as if she

he helped her up slowly and gingerly

rub off on the

her mouth to take sip after sip of the hot chocolate.

drink, she slid under the sheets and started mumbling again. “I wanna sleep…

come sleep

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

said, “I want to know what happened at the pool party

Kirk returned to the swimming pool. The party had ended long ago,

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

pale.

clench in fear. She had grown up with him,

pool after getting surrounded by

face was firm. The soft glow of the moonlight only served to emphasize

eyes.

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