Chapter 139

Caroline toyed with a roly–poly in the living room. When she looked at Kirk, he was staring back at her. It was as though they were telepathic. She tossed him a smile.

Kirk swallowed before finally speaking into the phone. “I’ll ask Carrie about it.”

“Okay.” Ivan finally heaved a sigh of relief. After ending the call, he went back to the living room.

Avery’s parents were there. As Ivan returned, they asked him, “Ivan, what did Kirk say?”

“I told him to ask Caroline what she thinks of this.”

Still, Avery’s parents didn’t relent. Instead, their faces were full of worry when they spoke. “Ivan, we’re so sorry about this. Avery didn’t know that something like this would happen either.”

Ivan waved a hand in the air to dismiss it. “Enough talk about that. What’s important is that

Caroline and Kirk are okay now.”

His words made the Mendeley couple feel even more guilty.

They glanced at Avery beside them, but they didn’t have it in them to reprimand her. She was their own daughter, after all. Besides, she was usually very gentle and obedient.

Ivan found this incident rather odd. Perhaps it had nothing to do with Avery.

Caroline saw him coming and placed the roly–poly back

arms around her waist from

“I rarely see you looking so troubled. Did something happen at work?

you to go back?”

It was a call from Dad,” Kirk answered. “He

smile on Caroline’s face

replayed in her mind. Her gut instincts told her that Avery liked Kirk, even though there was nothing to prove it.

Avery.

want to go back there?”

and asked, “I have a question. Can you give me

“Sure.”

Avery have known each other since childhood, right? Were you ever… together

past?”

chin with his hand and said, “No. We’re just friends.”

“Really?”

believe me?”

I do.” Caroline laughed. “Does she

he were contemplating it. “I think

like

“Are

being serious

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