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.”

Nicole took the cup from him with both hands. Putting

be coming in the morning, but I didn’t expect you to arrive so early. I

the man before her, who was wearing a navy blue suit today. He wasn’t wearing a necktie, and the top button of his shirt was undone, revealing his Adam’s apple, which lent

nodded while laying the design drafts flat on the desk. “It was my fault for coming without notice. I had nothing

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 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

Colton lowered his eyes to glance

designed for fashion shows. The drafts were brief, but they had all the

good as that of those old and established ones. Colton picked out the design of an evening