Right Person, Wrong Time

Chapter 39 Her Lips Rub Against His Cheek

After Amber left, Nicole lowered her head and sorted out her design drafts. One of the drafts had a very visible footprint left on it, and it seemed that the footprint couldn’t be erased at all.

Colton glanced down at the woman. Seeing her trying to erase the footprint from the design draft, he paused for a moment before saying apologetically, “I’m sorry, Miss Anderson. It was my fault for being negligent.”

Nicole shook her head. She used to come across things that were even worse than this back when she worked as an assistant, so she didn’t take it to heart. “It’s okay, President Gardner. Perhaps your secretary was just trying to keep the ladies away because there are too many ladies trying to throw themselves at you,” she replied half-jokingly.

Colton opened the door and invited Nicole in without responding to her remarks.

Shortly after Nicole entered Colton’s office, Tony came in holding a cup of coffee. “Miss Lisa, I’m not too sure about your preferences, so I brought you a cup of drinking water. If there’s anything you’d like to drink, please do tell me so that I can get it for you.”

her was, Nicole took the cup from him with both hands. Putting on a faint smile, she shook her head, saying, “Oh, it’s okay. Drinking water will do. Thank

what had happened just now. “You said you’d be coming in the morning, but I didn’t expect

button of his shirt was

fault for coming without

at all, Miss Anderson. Gardner Corporation is lucky to have such a diligent partner like you,”

for a while out of courtesy. After flattering Colton a bit, Nicole came straight to the point by pointing at the design drafts, saying, “These are the drafts for the

beside Nicole, Colton lowered his eyes to

were brief, but they had all the general features of her design outlined. Next to the drafts were comments on the suitable fabric and the details, so

its clothing brand’s reputation wasn’t as good as that of those old