Mistaking the CEO for a Gigolo

Nicole blurted out the so-called flawless excuse of hers, which she had long rehearsed in her mind countless times, in a sincere and serious manner.

Evan gazed at her with his abysmal pair of eyes. He found her odd because she wouldn’t stop fidgeting with the edge of her shirt.

Knitting his brows together, he neglected the things that she had told him and asked in return because he couldn’t suppress his curiosity anymore.

“I heard that someone has delivered you a gift. What is it?”

Nicole stared at Evan, wide-eyed. She couldn’t figure out who had turned their back against her and told him of the things that they should have kept from him.

If I’m not able to convince Evan, the flawless excuse that I have just made up isn’t going to do me any good, right?

After falling silent for a few seconds, she explained, “It’s a present from my assistant. I thought that something bad might have happened to her when I received the gift. Thus, I rushed over to her place to check if everything was fine.”

“What is it?” Evan decided to probe further into the matter. He thought that there was something fishy going on behind the scene because he noticed that Nicole was being anxious in an odd manner.

He couldn’t figure out the reason that she would want to keep him in the dark when it was a mere gift.

have returned it to her because it’s not meant to be a gift. It’s merely something to get me to rush over to

the doubtful look that Evan shot her after she finished her sentence, Nicole felt

her exclaimed, “Oh! It’s a bracelet? I’d thought that it was something horrifying when

and started to race thereafter because of the maid’s words. She had never once noticed that the maids of Imperial

were at breaking point due to the maid’s

Evan’s direction and noticed that he had narrowed his eyes in

sure that you were not hearing things?” Nicole decided to put the blame on the maid to get herself out of

maid stared at Nicole with an odd look in return because she wasn’t aware of such

about to rebuke Nicole’s words, yet she decided to give up in the end because she

she apologized, “I’m so sorry, Ms. Lane.

maid for something that she hadn’t done. “It’s fine. You should return

Evan decided to stop probing further because

Nicole. Holding her hand, he suggested,

expression turned gloomy because he detected the scent of the tobacco that was exclusive to a

could vividly recall the similar scent on her dress the last time she had made her way out abruptly in

Levant because it was a unique scent, exclusive to his favorite cigarillos brand. It might have been a coincidence