The Reunion After Seven Years

When Kerr saw the distant and cautious expression on Nicole's face, he couldn’t help but feel upset about it. He tried to hold her in his arms again, but she quickly dodged his attempts.

"Nicole, why don't you trust me?"

He was already aware that Nicole tended to be stubborn. His scandal with Sunny also didn't help; it was probably imprinted in Nicole's mind. Even though he couldn't explain everything to her yet, he still didn't want her to push him away.

Despite hearing Kerr's question, Nicole still didn't look up at him. She just raised her hand to her cheeks to wipe away the remaining tears and took a deep breath, as if she was trying to gather the courage to look at him in the eye.

"What do you want me to believe, Mr. Gu? Do you expect me to believe that nothing happened between you and Sunny? Even if you were innocent in this, it is obvious that you cannot deny your relationship with Sunny to the public. You can't even explain anything to me. If it was really nothing, you wouldn't have let the rumors go for this long," she explained to him.

"But what did you do? What else did you do besides telling me repeatedly to trust you? Be honest with me. You and Sunny are meant to be together, right?" she asked.

"You can't change the relationship, can you?"

Nicole's voice was calm. Recently, she found out many things that she wished hadn't. Admittedly, she was angry when she found out those things but eventually, she calmed down.

She wanted to believe in Kerr but she knew in her heart that she shouldn't dare. The more she gave herself time to think about it, the clearer everything became for her. She couldn't afford to entangle herself with Kerr and his life. It was just too complicated. Someone more powerful was probably behind Kerr.

She didn't want to be someone who would depend so much on Kerr. She wasn't that kind of person.

"Nicole, please just give me some time. I promise I will take care of it."

If he were being honest, Kerr was pretty surprised at how calm Nicole looked while they talked. He didn't expect that she would see the situation clearly.

was a defense mechanism for Nicole so she could protect herself and Jay from any more pain. All these years, Nicole had done everything by herself. She had to remain strong for both her and

but feel sorry

this will take for you to fix? I didn't mean to make things so hard for you. Please, just let me go. I just can't convince myself to be your mistress," Nicole

is always going to live under your shadow, Mr. Gu. I'm sorry. I am grateful for everything you did yesterday and today. I appreciate you staying with me and I'm thankful for you helping

pay you back for

to Kerr and

in her chest as she walked away from him. She also felt like there was something stuck in her throat. It felt as if something was preventing her from breathing. She felt a different kind of pain spread all

was for her to not hug Kerr. She had never thought that it would be so difficult for her to

didn't object. Kerr knew that as long as the situation was not yet solved, he

under his shadow didn't even cross through his mind. That wasn't what he wanted for her. If he loved a woman, he wanted her to be standing proud beside him, not

had an aura of

"Nicole?"

other end of the hallway, Nicole

"Hi, Avery," Nicole greeted.

at Avery, she really wanted to smile at her. But no matter how hard she tried to flex the

I understand that this isn't the best time for you. How is my

arms to Nicole and gave her a tight hug. She

sad to see how miserable Nicole looked. Nobody

they were immune to pain. It just meant that they

worry about it. I am okay. Jay is also out of danger. As long as I take good care of him, he will recover soon

her and led