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.

happened to delete the files for real, judging from your ability, you should be able to translate them again

pursed his lips. His ears were

lying, so he didn’t know

nose on your first day of work. Do you think I won’t punish you just because you

Kieran clenched his fists. “In this office, you’re the CEO, and I’m your secretary. Feel free to

fixed her eyes on him,

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

she seemed like

to help you complete

walked to her desk and took out

educate her cousin brother who had interned at

bad for using it on Kieran, who was the second son of the Harris

as she pondered about it, there didn’t seem to be anything wrong with teaching

what she

courage, she walked toward

to him. He had been obedient since he was young and hadn’t caused any trouble. No one had used a ruler to hit him before, so he didn’t

bobbed. By then, Inez had already walked up to him. “Please stretch out your left hand, Mr.

up at her

fingers. Face your

that he had no experience of being beaten by

Kieran followed her instructions.

his hand, Inez slapped his palm hard with the ruler. A stinging pain seared

he frowned in pain and stifled the urge to withdraw

Inez hit him with the ruler, she observed the expression on his face at the same time. She didn’t

hitting him ten times, she stopped and asked in a deep

at his reddened palm and said honestly, “It

of getting hit with a ruler for the first time.”

her casual tone, Kieran felt that

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

Inez was moved.

her composure and reprimanded him, “Go ahead and

“Okay.”