The Reunion After Seven Years

"Mr. Gu, please don't take me for a fool. I know my place and that is someone who is merely an employee of the Gu Group. Whatever it is that happened between us, it was nothing but my wishful thinking. Rest assured, it won't happen again in the future. So, I'm kindly asking you to please let me go. Miss He is the perfect person for you. You both belong with each other; you're a match made in heaven."

Nicole had very little trust on the man to begin with. She let her guard down for a short while and this happened. This couldn't go on and she refused to believe him anymore.

Her mind wandered back to her plan to return to Manhattan with Jay. Perhaps she shouldn't give up her intention of leaving because of Kerr. However, her heart sank in sadness and disappointment when she chose to leave again.

"Nicole."

Even if he knew his words were useless, Kerr couldn't do anything else but to try and pacify Nicole.

"Mr. Gu, you don't have to explain anything to me. I'm just a nobody. I will do my best to finish this bidding successfully and I hope you can approve of my resignation."

Restraining her sadness, she turned around and left.

As she turned around, tears fell from the corners of her eyes. She raised the back of her hand and wiped them away. She didn't want Kerr to see her fragility.

She became stronger because of Jay, but she became extremely fragile because of Kerr. She didn't like who she was becoming and how vulnerable she turned because of the latter.

Following the disappearing back of Nicole with his eyes, Kerr clenched his fists and punched the wall beside him, blood flowing down from the cracks of his fingers.

As Kerr went back to his office, Jared happened to see the wound on his boss's hand. He immediately took out the first-aid kit and simply bound up the wound.

"Mr. Gu, do you need me to explain it to Director Ning?"

He looked at the dark face of Kerr and carefully tried to figure out what he was thinking. For the entire morning, the CEO was like a mad lion ready to pounce and no one dared to get close to him.

Jared stood by Kerr, trembling with fear. He didn't expect that this entire dilemma would have such a large effect on his boss.

"She hasn't eaten lunch yet."

Though his tone was indifferent, the hint of sadness couldn't be hidden in his eyes.

had been watching every move of hers with his eyes and

knew that this time around, Nicole was incredibly upset, and maybe all the efforts he had made had been in

Mr.

A moment later, he headed towards Nicole's office with a paper bag of

she

I heard that you haven't eaten yet. Mr. Gu asked me to bring to you

at Nicole and wanted to take the opportunity to put in a good word for Kerr. But when he saw the serious look on her face, he

at the exquisite paper bag, and continued

meaningless thing anymore. I don't need it and I don't want it. He

it seemed that no matter how hard she tried to

Miss He are really not what he wants. There are things he

thoughts, he was

don't care what Mr. Gu wants. If he has nothing to do with Miss He, I don't care either. He

difficult for me to trust

for Kerr. Yet still, she wasn't given a reasonable explanation. She couldn't put trust on a man based on

sense of security after she had been betrayed by Gregory. Over the years, she was still

would end up

"Director Ning."

the firm look of Nicole,

"Wait!"

he could walk out of the office, he heard the voice of the director.

"You forgot something."

the paper bag of food on the table and motioned

doomed to lose everything, she chose to reject it all. This was her

she was a hedgehog. She would gather the thorns around her to protect herself whenever she

for a while, Jared didn't take the

Miss Ning. Even if you're upset, please take care