Right Person, Wrong Time

Chapter 79 The Thing Between You and Colton

Nicole was about to say something until she saw the injury on Colton’s face.

Then, she chose to quietly lower her head as she gobbled up her food.

After picking up the courage to look at the man again to say something, she was stopped by Annie, who had abruptly entered the room.

“Miss Anderson,” she started. “I have washed and dried your clothes. They are now in your room upstairs.”

“Alright. Thank you,” Nicole quickly nodded and said her thanks.

With a smile on her face, Annie replied, “You are welcome.”

Right when she was about to head upstairs, Colton suddenly called out to her from behind. “Come down after you’ve changed into your working attire. We’ll go to work together.”

Nicole only gave a simple ‘Okay’ as she nodded in response. At the same time, she couldn’t help but take a peek at Colton’s face. Seeing that he didn’t seem to be in a particularly bad mood, she let out a sigh of relief before hurrying upstairs.

much time to change into something else. They soon got into Colton’s vehicle

them did not speak a word to each other throughout their journey on the road. Nicole was the first one to break the silence when she gingerly brandished a Band-Aid she had procured from Annie on her

like a piece of Band-Aid, President Gardner?” she

his chin was way too conspicuous to be

with raised brows, he humorously asked

rubbed her nose and grumbled, “It can

started to walk away instead of answering

gaze started to shift between the man’s retreating figure and the Band-Aid in her

understand his anger. After all, he was hurt

but she soon brought herself out of her reverie with a shake of her head.

door open, she was greeted by the sight of a petite young girl seated in her office. With her little back toward Nicole, she had her head tilted downward as she swiped the screen of

lightly knocked on the surface of the table to get the

voice as she began to blatantly stare at Nicole. Her eyebrows began to wiggle mischievously

girl kept her phone away before staring into Nicole’s eyes. “I saw Colton carrying you

sentence, yet one could easily tell that

Wendy?” Nicole asked with uncertainty after raking