The Ex and Her Riches

All the deleted documents were gone.

Kieran wasn’t upset by it. He continued to translate the remaining three documents.

However, his typing speed had slowed down a lot.

Once again, silence ensued in the office. Nobody said anything more.

Time seemed to tick by faster when everyone was busy. In the blink of an eye, an hour had passed.

Inez began to pack up her stuff to get off work. “Once you’re done organizing the translated documents, send them to me,” she said casually.

Kieran paused what he was doing and turned to look at her. “Aren’t you going to check them?”

“You’ve finished translating. What is there for me to check?”

Kieran lowered his gaze, finding it hard to speak. “I… I have two more documents left to be translated.”

Inez was stunned. She shot him a look and asked, “You had three documents left one hour ago. And now, there are still two left? What have you been doing for the past hour?”

Inez carefully recalled and didn’t remember seeing Kieran slacking off. He had indeed been focusing on his translation.

Kieran’s face stiffened slightly. He didn’t make any response.

Inez walked over suspiciously and took a look at his computer screen. Soon, she noticed something was amiss.

“I came by earlier and saw that you had translated these documents. Why are they gone? Are you trying to fool me?”

“I accidentally deleted them, so I had to translate them all over again,” Kieran explained calmly.

Inez stared at him in confusion. She immediately clicked the recycle bin on his computer, but it was empty.

“So you’re saying that you accidentally deleted them from the recycle bin too?” she teased.

Kieran fell silent.

you should be able to translate them again in no time.

pursed his lips. His ears were

good at lying, so he didn’t know what

face was gloomy. “You’re playing tricks right under my nose on your first day of work. Do you think I won’t punish you just because you have a

and I’m

him, feeling a

she had seen Kieran, who was always haughty and cold, being so

she seemed

I’m more than glad to help you complete your childhood memories,

and took out a

she had used that to educate her cousin brother who had interned at the company. Since then, she

using it on Kieran, who was the second son of the Harris family and also the most

pondered about it, there didn’t seem to be anything wrong with teaching her secretary a

what she

courage, she walked toward Kieran with steady

felt guilty as he watched her come over to him. He had been obedient since he was young and hadn’t caused any trouble. No one had used a ruler

had already walked up to him. “Please stretch out your left hand, Mr. Kieran,” she

he looked up at her and extended his hand

your fingers. Face your palm

had no experience of being beaten

Kieran followed her instructions.

hand, Inez slapped his palm hard with the ruler. A stinging pain seared through his skin in an

frowned in

with the ruler, she observed the expression on his face

asked in

his reddened palm

be the one to let you experience the feeling of getting hit with a ruler for the first time.” Inez

Kieran felt

her, he said seriously, “There are actually a lot of first times—first time kissing, first time being a secretary, first time apologizing, and

Inez was moved.

because of a mistake, she immediately regained her composure and reprimanded him, “Go ahead and play tricks if you’re not afraid of being punished. The

“Okay.”