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.”

with both hands. Putting on a faint smile,

explained what had happened just now. “You said you’d be coming in the morning, but I didn’t expect you to arrive so early. I had a

suit today. He wasn’t wearing a necktie, and the top button of his shirt was undone, revealing his Adam’s apple, which lent him a seductive charm as

desk. “It was my fault for coming without notice. I had nothing to do at home, so I

all, Miss Anderson. Gardner Corporation is lucky to have

Nicole and Colton were sophisticated, so they exchanged nothing but polite remarks 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 next summer season, as well as the fall and winter season, so I thought you might want to take a look. If these designs need improvements, I can revise them at

Colton lowered his eyes to glance at

divided into two types. The first type was clothes for everyday wear, whereas the second type was clothes designed for fashion shows. The drafts were brief, but they had all the general features of her design outlined. Next to the drafts were comments on the suitable fabric and

had only dabbled in the clothing industry for five years. Despite being financially strong, its clothing brand’s reputation wasn’t as good as that of those old and established ones. Colton picked out the design of an evening dress and put it before Nicole, asking,