Right Person, Wrong Time

Seeing Colton look back, Kendrick purposely took off his suit jacket and draped it around Nicole's shoulders. "Nicole, are you feeling cold? Let me put something on you," he said. If you can't let go, I'll force you to let go. Colton, I'll never let you off for what happened between the Gardners and the Hofsteads back then.

Colton's pupils shrank at the sight of this. He froze for a moment, not daring to look back. In the end, he could only stride off.

Startled, Nicole casually removed the suit jacket from her shoulders and returned it to Kendrick. "Sorry, Mr. Hofstead, but I don't need this," she replied before taking Chloe by the hand and leaving. She didn't know what Kendrick's intentions were, but she was now pregnant with Colton's child. Even if he wouldn't forgive her, she wouldn't seek solace in another man.

Kendrick smiled helplessly while watching her stubborn figure. Nicole, when will you accept me?

On the other hand, Wendy returned to their private room. Just when she gathered her belongings and prepared to leave, she saw Colton come back with a sullen expression. After swinging his suit jacket over his shoulder, he turned around and left.

Watching him storm off in a fit of rage, she was perplexed. What's going on this time? Curling her lips in resignation, she picked up her bag and caught up to him.

Colton walked ahead alone. He didn't know what to do anymore; every time he saw Nicole with another man, he felt trapped in a whirlwind of emotions that he couldn't escape from. What on earth should I do? I know full well that the baby in her womb belongs to Zachary.

"Slow down, Colton!" shouted Wendy helplessly. She tried to catch up to him from behind, but she couldn't close the distance between them no matter how hard she tried.

However, Colton acted as though he hadn't heard her at all. He kept walking ahead, completely oblivious to her calls from behind.

Wendy stopped in her tracks to catch her breath before looking at Colton with a sigh. He's probably upset again because of Nicole. After she managed to catch her breath, she broke into a trot, feeling relieved that she wasn't wearing high heels.

Meanwhile, Nicole was walking alongside Chloe on the street after dragging her out of the clubhouse.

"Nicole, maybe we should keep our distance from Kendrick from now on," said Chloe with a deep frown. Something's very wrong with his behavior today. As soon as Colton wanted to leave, he draped his suit jacket over Nicole's shoulders. It's not hard to figure out his intentions.

Nicole nodded. "I know, but he's our business partner now. To put it in a certain way, we can't keep a clear distance from him yet." She had also noticed Kendrick's odd behavior, but there were a lot of issues that they had to work together on. This was a troublesome situation.

"Uh-huh." Chloe nodded. "About Colton today…" She tried to bring up the subject of Colton, wanting to know what Nicole was up to.

Nicole froze for a moment. "It's fine." For some reason, whenever she saw Colton, she felt a mix of fear and nervousness. There were many times when she wanted to talk to him about the baby, but the words never seemed to come out. "Never mind. Let's forget about it," she said, not wanting to discuss this anymore.

Chloe shut up and followed behind her in silence.

After returning to the hotel, Colton passed the things he had bought from the clubhouse to Wendy and shut himself in his hotel room.