Bogus Billionaire novel (Caroline and Kirk) novel read online free Chapter 291

Chapter 291

Once Caroline settled matters regarding Evans Group, she had much more free time for a few days. Just as she had nothing to do, she received a call from Gwen.

“Carol, I have tomorrow off. Do you want to go and pick out a wedding gown together tomorrow?”

When it came to buying a wedding gown, Gwen was even more excited than Caroline was.

Caroline smiled. “Sure.”

“Didn’t you want to have your pictures taken in Macovo? I heard it snows there all year. Do you want to take ski equipment there too?”

Caroline wasn’t sure about it. “I don’t think we have that much time there.”

Hearing this, Gwen said, “That’s true. But I would really love to go with you to take your photos.”

Caroline leased, “You really want to go?”

“Yes.”

“Then why don’t you quickly make Sean official?*

Gwen scoffed. “I’m not talking to you anymore. I’ve noticed you’re biased toward him.”

Caroline smiled. After she hung up, she finished work and went home.

Kirk had come home early today, and he had cooked.

When Caroline saw Kirk busying himself in the kitchen, her fatigue disappeared. It seemed there were really some people who could soothe her and dispel her exhaustion when she saw them.

“What are you doing standing at the door?” Kirk turned to look at Caroline, smiling.

“Are you so stunned by how handsome I am that you can’t even move anymore?”

“I think your mouth is getting more and more out of control.” Caroline pulled out a chair and sat down.

Kirk handed her some cutlery. “This has always been my nature.”

Caroline looked up at him and thought of how things had been when she first met him. “Is it? If so, then this matches how things were when we first met.”

Kirk thought back to when they had first met too. He smiled wider. “What kind of a person did you think I was back then?”

“Frivolous. It was obvious you weren’t serious about anybody when it came to relationships.”

Kirk wiped away a sauce stain from the corner of Caroline’s lips. Then, he smoothly put his finger in his mouth to lick the sauce.

This action was an unconscious one, but it was unintentionally seductive.

Caroline hurriedly lowered her head. Looking at the food on her plate, she kept thinking of what Kirk had just done. She had no choice but to look up again.

“So you suspected that I had another woman back then?”

Thinking back on the misunderstanding back then, Kirk wanted to laugh. But when he thought of Daphne, he couldn’t laugh at all

Caroline nodded.

Kirk’s heart lodged itself in his throat. He played with Caroline’s hair with one hand while his other hand was clenched into a fist out of sight.

“If it were true back then, what would you have done?”

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Seeing the sweat on Kirk’s forehead, Caroline wanted to get up to get him some issues. But he caught her wrist.

“It’s not that,” he said, smoothly pulling Caroline into his arms. He kissed her, slowly urging her to open her lips.

Caroline was caught unawares by the sudden flurry of kiss upward slightly, and her waist was pressed tightly against Kir

Her hands unconsciously came to rest on Virk’s chest. Her head tilted

Later, Caroline stayed in Kirk’s embrace, unwilling to move at all. She pointed at the food on the table and said, “It’s all cold now”

Kirk Kissed Caroline’s earlobe. “I’ll go heat it up.”

At that, he suddenly thought of the way Sean had described him, Henpecked.

He smiled as he drew his finger downward, picking up a strand of Caroline’s hair. “Darling.”

Caroline replied weakly, “Hm?”

Kirk, lowered his head to press his forehead against Caroline’s. His warm breath brushed Caroline’s trembling eyelashes.

“But I’m still a little hungry. I don’t have the strength to go and heat up the food. What do we do now?”

As he spoke, Kirk’s lips landed on Caroline’s again. Then he moved to her neck, then-

Some time later, Kirk helped Caroline shower before going to the kitchen to heat up the food.

Caroline stood in a bathrobe in the kitchen, watching Kirk reheat the food. She was so exhausted that she stumped against the frame of the sliding door.

Kirk said. “Go and rest. I’ll call you when the food’s ready.” I

Caroline pressed her lips together and shook her head. “I nearly forgot. I want to talk to you about something.”

Kirk’s heart skipped a beat. He recalled how Caroline had met Daphne a few days ago.

She asked. “Didn’t you say you wanted to quit a few days ago?”

When Caroline didn’t mention Daphne at all, Kirk’s straight back relaxed a bit. “Yes.”

“Can you wait a little?”

Kirk looked up at her in confusion.

“I’m thinking of handing over Mackey Group to you.”

Before Kirk could answer, she continued, “I’ve done the research. The Mackeys are in the coffee business.

“Although they’re not doing so well now, they used to be a very reputable coffee shop chain. They have the connections and resources. If you take over, you can use their resources.”

Kirk listened intently to everything Caroline said. In his eyes, Mackey Group wasn’t a good enough company. Before, he wouldn’t even have listened.

But since it was Caroline, he thought about it seriously,

“Are you planning to acquire Mackey Group?”

“Yes, but I can’t do it right now. If I take over Evans Group, I’m confident that I can acquire Mackey Group in half a year.”

Kirk walked over and hugged Caroline’s waist, supporting her so she could stand more easity.

“Are you really going to take care of me like I’m your sugar baby?”

Caroline rubbed against Kirk’s chest. Yes.”

Kirk laughed as he pinched Caroline’s waist. He picked her up and brought her to the couch.

“Sure, but…”

He looked down at Caroline, his shadow stretching out behind him. “I can support you too.”

Even if the price of it was Caroline’s rejection once his identity was exposed.

Seeing the serious look in Kirk’s eyes, Caroline’s heart skipped a beal. “Okay.”

As Kirk held Caroline, his eyes started to sting.

At this moment of warmth, Caroline smelled something burning. She hurriedly pushed Kirk away. “Th–the

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The next day, after Caroline and Gwen met up, they went straight to Merry Color. As for Sean and Kirk, they had both been dumped at home. In Sean’s words, they had become latchkey kids.

Soon, Caroline and Gwen arrived at Merry Color.

When she saw Caroline, the new store manager quickly went forward. “You must be Mrs, Yates. Mr. Eddy said that you can choose any dress in the shop as long as you like it.”

Caroline and Gwen exchanged a glance and chuckled at the same time.

The manager didn’t know why they were laughing. She led them both to pick out wedding gowns.

Then, she moved away for a moment. Gwen went up to Caroline and said with a chuckle, “I wonder how Eddy would react if he found out you were the Mrs. Yates he was talking about.”

Caroline smiled for a moment before frowning. “Gwen, stop getting Sean to pretend to be my husband next time.”

“What are you afraid of?”

Gwen knew what Caroline was worried about. “Our relationship isn’t that fragile. Besides, I trust you 100%. You won’t covet my man.”

Gwen had a point.

True best friends always ended up disliking each other’s partners because they thought their best friend deserved someone even better.

Caroline held Gwen’s hand. “Sometimes, I think I’m really lucky. Although my family isn’t good to me. I’ve been gifted with a wonderful friend.”

Gwen smiled toward Caroline but said. “Ugh, are all women in love so sappy?”

Caroline shot back, “You’re in love too. Shouldn’t you know?”

Gwen squeezed Caroline’s shoulder as she laughed. As they were both giggling, the manager came back,

Since Eddy would be footing the bill Caroline and Gwen didn’t plan on saving him any money. They bought all the clothes on their listin one go. It came to a total of more than 30 million dollars.

Seeing that, the manager made a call to Eddy’s assistant. Soon after, Kirk transferred the money over.

Caroline felt some sort of way as she heard the ding of the transfer notification.

Although Eddy had helped Evans Group a lot, he had never spent a cent on her over the past eight years. He had never even bought her a

drink.

Plus, she had never thought that the Morrison family would give money easily.

But seeing how generous Eddy was being now, paying a bill for someone he had never met, Caroline thought she should probably change her perspective.

The Morrison family really did give money away easily.

After buying the wedding gowns, Caroline and Gwen went downstairs to get some milkshakes.

Gwen suddenly thought of Kirk and asked, “Don’t you need to buy Kirk some clothes too?”

Caroline looked at the person making them their milkshakes and said, “Yes, but I won’t have to buy it. Kirk said he would handle it himsel

“Do you trust a man’s fashion sense?”

“Kirk would probably look nice even if he were wearing a trash bag.”

Gwen paused before laughing. “You’re right. Carol, you’re really confident about your man. Oh, by the way, didn’t he talk about itting the

other day? How’s that going?”

After collecting their milkshakes, Caroline walked next to Gwen on the road. Then, she told Gwen her entire plan.

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Gwen nearly choked on ner milkshake. After a long while, she dropped ner jaw in astonishment

Seeing that Gwen was about to shout, Caroline quickly covered her friend’s mouth. She nodded enthusiastically.

Gwen mumbled behind Caroline’s hand. After a long while, the excitement in her eyes dulled, though her body was still sharing.

A moment later, Gwen finally relaxed and pulled Caroline’s hand away. Even so, her tone was animated. “Carol you’re

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Caroline said, “Yes.”

“My god, I really can’t believe it. Carol, you’re amazing.”

Caroline was a bit annoyed as she said, “I’m not 100% sure, though. Don’t praise me just yet.”

“No, but you’re already amazing for daring to take over a company. Some people don’t dare become bosses like this. Me, for example. I wouldn’t dare do such a thing. Just thinking about all the issues a company laces gives me a headache!”

Caroline replied, “Managing a company really is quite difficult. Besides, I don’t have much experience with it. But I don’t want my grandfather’s company to be ruined just like that.”

Although Caroline didn’t much remember Benjamin Evans, they were still family.

“You’re right about that.”

When it came to the Evans family, Gwen found it kind of sad. She had been young back then, but she could still remember a bit about what had happened.

Whenever the adults had spoken about the Evans family back then, they had been reverential and fearful. Now, they were mocking.

The difference was astonishing.

“Enough, let’s stop talking about this already. Let’s go to the bookstore.”

Caroline took out her phone. “Before coming out, I had Kirk send me a list of books. They’re all about management.”

Gwen took a glance at the list. Most of the books were in a foreign language. She couldn’t understand any of it, but she admired Caroline a lot for it.

“This list of books must have taken a lot of effort on Kirk’s part,” Gwen said.

“Honestly, this whole improving yourselves as a couple and creating a new life kind of deal is really touching.”

Caroline smiled. Indeed, being in step with each other made her look forward to what the future had in store. It was too bad that she and Kirk couldn’t agree on having children.

Thinking of that, Caroline clutched her chest and forced herself not to think about it anymore. She went into the bookstore with Gwen.

There weren’t many people inside. Books about management were boring, so not many people cared for them.

Caroline and Gwen pushed a cart down the aisles and quickly gathered most of the books on the list.

There was only one last book that they couldn’t find, no matter what. It was titled “The Essence of Management.”

Gwen said, “I’ll try and look for it on the computer up front.”

“Alright,” Caroline said. She stayed and kept looking. But after another round of searching, she still couldn’t find it.

When she turned around, she inadvertently saw Adrian.

Adrian obviously hadn’t expected to see Caroline there. He raised an eyebrow. “What a coincidence.”

Caroline replied, “Yes, quite. You’re here for…”

Adrian looked behind himsell. “Quentin wants to use the computer here, so I brought him.”

Caroline was stunned for a moment. Then, she smiled. “Don’t tell me this bookstore belongs to the Sorkin family.”

Adrian smiled. “It doesn’t.”

He continued before Caroline could say anything else, “It’s mine. It has nothing to do with the Sorkin family.”

Caroline was at a loss for words. Was there a difference?

“Carol, I found it. It’s in the C section.”

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She recognized him immediately. “Addlan Sotkinl

Adrian smilled dazzlingly. “Hello, Gwen.”

“You know me?” Gwen was surprised by this.

Adrian glanced at Caroline. “You’re Caroline’s Ilend, so of course I know you

When Gwen heard this, she looked meaningfully at Caroline. “Alt, so it’s like that. I thought it was my charisma that made you remember me, Mr. Sorkin.”

Right then, there was a slight breeze as someone rushed over. “I found I, I found It

It was Quentin.

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Quentin’s hair was messy and frizzy, and he had dark, heavy eyebags. It looked like he hadn’t slept in many days.

Adrian lugged at him.

It was then that Quentin noticed Caroline. But his expression was frozen, and he couldn’t even smile at her.

“No, I can’t anymore. I’m exhausted. I need to sleep first.” With that, Quentin slumped to the ground.

Neither Gwen nor Caroline had ever seen him like this before. Curiously, they asked, “What happened to him?”

Adrian gave the passed–out Quentin a kick. Then, he called some of the employees to move Quentin to the third floor.

Alter that, he answered, “He’s been investigating something. He hasn’t stopped for three days and hasn’t slept in all that time. Now he needs to catch up on sleep. You.

Adrian shot a glance at Caroline’s shopping cart. “Do you still have any more books to buy?”

Gwen quickly answered. “There’s one more: ‘The Essence of Management.”

Since he was familiar with the layout, Adrian led them to the C section and pulled out a book with a red cover. He handed it to Caroline.

Caroline and Gwen both looked over. Indeed, it was “The Essence of Management.”

Gwen was stunned. “You didn’t even look. How did you know where the book was?”

Adrian smiled. “This is my bookstore. Of course, I know where the books are. As for Caroline

He glanced at “The Essence of Management” in the shopping cart. “Few people know about this book. How do you know about it?”

“Caroline’s husband told her about it.”

Gwen held a measure of unconscious pride, the kind a mother would have for her son–in–law. “He recommended all of these books.”

Adrian regarded the books in the shopping cart. After a long while, he looked back up. “He’s an old hand at this. Can I ask what company he’s the director of?”

Gwen and Caroline exchanged a glance. In the end, Gwen said, “He’s not a director. He’s just a regular office employee.”

Adrian raised a brow. “Really?”

“Why would I lie to you?”

Then, Gwen took out her phone and glanced at it. “It’s getting late. Carol, we should be getting back.”

There were still a couple of latchkey kids waiting at home for them for dinner.

Caroline nodded before saying to Adrian, “Thank you, Mr. Sorkin. We’re going to pay now.”

Adrian’s frown disappeared. “Consider these books a gift.”

Caroline blinked. “That wouldn’t be right.”

“It’s fine. Just consider it

Adrian chuckled and said, “My wedding gift to you.”

Caroline took another glance at the books before looking at Adrian again.

Adrian said, “If you think this gift is too cheap, I-*

“No, no! This gift is too valuable. I will take good care of them.”

A brilliant smile appeared on Adrian’s face. “Good.”

Once they got out of the bookstore, Gwen couldn’t hold it in anymore. “Carol, I would bet a bag of chips that Adrian likes you!”

Caroline put the books in the backseat of the car. “Gwen, don’t joke about this.”

“I’m not joking. Didn’t you see the way he looked at you? It’s so tender! It’s definitely the way someone looks at their crush.”

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Caribe hard. When did you get the special ability to know at a glance whether someone likes me or not?

“Hey, don’t knock it I had already wanted to ask you about it when we first met.”

Caroline pulled on her seatbell. “When we first met, we were about seven years old? Or eight years old?”

Yep. Back then, there were already rumors about Adrian liking you.”

This time, Caroline laughed even louder. “Alright, stop leasing me. Does a seven–year–old even know what liking people is about?”

Gwen shrugged.

“Besides, I don’t even remember what happened back then.”

Caroline started the car. Then, she asked Gwen, “Gwen, do you remember the stuff that happened when you were a kid?”

“Vaquely, I don’t remember it all very clearly.”

Caroline sighed. “I can’t remember a thing.”

“Maybe something happened to you when you were small, so you automatically blocked it all out?”

Caroline shot a glance at Gwen. “Which novel did you read about that one in?”

“Hey, you have to believe it. There’s a scientific basis to it!”

Thus, Gwen spent the car ride informing Caroline about how people could have different reactions after going through certain stimuli.

By the time they got home, it was already past 6:00 pm.

Sean and Kirk were at home playing some games. When they heard Caroline and Gwen return, they both turned their heads.

Seeing these two overgrown kids, Gwen couldn’t help but turn to whisper in Caroline’s ear, “Honestly, your husband’s pretty capable. He

can get along with Sean like they grew up together. I’m impressed.”

“That’s why I’m not worried about him starting his own business.”

“What are you two talking about?‘ Seeing Caroline and Gwen chatting so secretively, Kirk discarded his game controller. He walked up and

pulled Caroline into his embrace, claiming her as his own.

Gwen pouted. “We were saying you could be a courtesan.”

Kirk raised an eyebrow, but he didn’t get mad. He kissed Caroline’s earlobe. “Is that a compliment, darling?”

Caroline couldn’t help but feel her face heat. Even though they were her friends, there were still other people here. She shoved Kirk aside.”

What kind of compliment is that?”

“Saying that I could be a courtesan means that I’m good–looking.”

Caroline gripped Kirk’s hand. “You’re shameless.”

“Alright, alright. Can you two stop showing off? I’m hungry. Don’t tell me you’re feeding us with that show?” Though Sean sounded disgusted, he learned from Kirk and went forward to hug Gwen’s waist.

Yet Gwen pushed him away.

“Don’t touch me. You haven’t passed your probation yet.”

Sean was speechless.

Kirk looked at Sean with pity.

After dinner, Gwen and Sean finally left. Once they did, Kirk picked Caroline up and carried her upstairs.

Caroline hugged Kirk’s neck, looking at him smilingly. “Do you know what you are?”

“What?”

“Insatiable,”

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Kirk laughed. “I can’t help it. A man’s gotta eat.

Alright then. It seemed that Kirk really couldn’t help but be inappropriate.

Right then, on the other end of the city, Adrian was looking at the document before him, unable to sleep.

He was looking at the Information Quentin had found about Jack. According to this, Jack was a UFC champion. He had been living a all this time. But after Caroline had returned to the country and started working, he started driving her to and from work

Jack was an athlete. Why did he have to be Caroline’s driver?

Adrian looked at Quentin, who was still fast asleep, and resisted the urge to wake him. Adrian could tell that Quentin was already

limit.

There was no way Jack’s identity was so simple.

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Time passed quickly. It was getting closer to the day when Evans Group’s new CEO would be chosen.

Yel Caroline only became more calm as the days went by. Even so, she completed her work for Thome Corp very well.

However, the HR department still hadn’t found a suitable new design director. Thus, Jules had yet to approve Caroline’s resontw

Actually, there was another reason Jules didn’t do it. He just didn’t have the guts to say it.

During this time, Layla had also been attending various events with Eddy.

Anyone with sharp eyes could tell that Eddy was in support of Layla. There was even word that many people were waiting to invest in

Evans Group once Layla took over.

Once the shareholders found out about this, they would surely be on Layla’s side. That was why Jules didn’t think Caroline could become Evans Group’s CEO. He was worried since Eddy was so invested in Layla now.

Jules‘ direct superior was Eddy’s second uncle. He was afraid his boss would side with Layla too and forget about Caroline.

If he approved Caroline’s resignation but she didn’t get the CEO position, she would be out of a job. Then, she would lose it all.

Caroline wasn’t that worried, though. After finishing her work, she wanted to go grocery shopping and prepare a feast to welcome the next

day’s competition.

But when she went out, Caroline bumped into Vivian.

When Vivian saw Caroline, she smiled. “Oh, it’s Ms. Evans! What a dedicated worker.! Do you think you can keep your job if you just work

hard enough?”

The people behind Vivian laughed. They were all the ones who had always stood behind Vivian. They had chilled out after Caroline sent

Susan to prison.

Now that they found out Caroline was leaving, they were back to their bad behavior.

Caroline glanced at all these people. “Mr. Hawkins hasn’t approved my resignation yet. Strictly speaking. I’m still this company’s design

director.”

Vivian glanced at the time. “What a shame. It’s already 5:30 pm now. If you said it a second earlier, you would still be the respected Ms.

Evans. But now ****

Vivian then said, “Oh, I forgot to tell you. Mr. Hawkins called me in to say that I will be the design director starting tomorrow.”

Caroline looked at her calmly. After checking through her bag to make sure that she hadn’t left anything, she walked slowly toward the

elevator.

Vivian’s underlings thought Caroline had been cowed, so they gathered before Vivian.

“You’re amazing, Vivian. You finally managed to chase that hateful woman out.”

“That’s right. Now, the design department is finally yours!”

“Viv, when the time comes, you have to take good care of me.”

All these praises and more had Vivian on cloud nine. She said, “Don’t worry. I won’t forget how you’ve stood behind me during this time.”

The others were all pleased. Instantly, the other employees still in the office became stormy–faced.

Everyone had been having a great time under Caroline’s leadership. Naturally, they all approved of her.

Now that their superior was suddenly changing and they were getting a director who liked kiss–ups, they knew that the future would be

grim for them.

Cheryl was among these people.

Cheryl watched as Vivian entered the office in delight. She sniffed. She really wanted to quit with Caroline, too.

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In the office, Vivian settled ner emotions before calling Layla. “Ms. Layla, its me.”

Right then, Layla was sitting in the CEO’s chair at Evans Group. She touched the armrests, her eyes alight with greed. “Why are you calling

me?”

“I just wanted to tell you that Caroline has left Thorne Corporation.”

“Alright. Did you take a picture of what she looked like when she left?” Vivian froze for a second. Then, she laughed. “I forgot to.