Chapter 40
Caroline froze. “How did you know that I’d bought a necktie?”
Kirk glanced at the bag and laughed. “I guessed it. What? Are you reluctant to give it to me?”
“No. I bought it because I wanted to thank you for giving me this bracelet. But now, you’re giving me this painting, and I… I don’t know what to do to express my gratitude,” Caroline mumbled.
Kirk swallowed, a tad touched by her explanation. The worry he’d had vanished into thin air. “Help
me tie it then.”
“Huh?” A blush crept up Caroline’s cheeks. Never in her life had she helped a man tie a tie. Besides, tying a tie for someone meant she had to get close to them, and she’d only do it for
someone she was close to.
Yet now Kirk was asking her to do it for him.
“We’re meeting my father next month, yet we seem distant from each other. We don’t look like a newlywed couple at all. Since you’re thinking of a way to thank me, you can get used to being my
wife. My family won’t doubt our relationship, and they’ll finally stop asking me to get married.”
Kirk’s voice was calm when he spoke, just like the look in his eyes.
Caroline lowered her head, somehow disappointed. She’d thought that he … Anyway, she was
overthinking things.
When she raised her eyes to look at him once again, she said, “This is my first time helping
someone with a tie. I’m not used to this.”
“That’s okay,” Kirk told her as he took off his coat, revealing the white shirt underneath. His
sturdy chest came into view, and Caroline tried to calm down by resting one hand against her
chest.
She took the tie into her hands and walked up to him.
As the distance between them decreased, Caroline could feel her heart beating like crazy. It was
Kuk lighed his warm breath tanning out at her cheeks.
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