Kern Lo looked inscrutable and nodded with smile, “Any room for me tonight?”
“Sure! We have vacant rooms.” Carol worked in the inn to welcome and bid farewell to numerous guests, but this was her first time to meet such a good-looking guy of mysterious feature.
Kern followed Carol to the lobby. He could see the clean windows of the inn all the way. Standing in front of the reception, he also got the view of the yard as well as some of the further Erhai Lake through a glass folding door.
Right now, he noticed a bamboo recliner on the corridor of yard; soon he shifted his eye contact.
Carol introduced to him, “Sir, we have an agreement for you before check-in. Could you please read it and sign?” She never knew the reasons to make such a weird agreement with guests. Yet she had to do as the owner told and there was not exception since she started to work here.
If guests wanted to live in, they had to sign the agreement.
Kern got it and seemed to be curious…he neither heard about the rule that guests would make an agreement with some other hotels or inns.
Anyway, it did not matter. He read through it and came to realize that, why the young couple in the recent news was ordered to leave here by the owner.
Carol was a little bit nervous to watch Kern who was extremely handsome! She even worried about what to do if he refused to sign the agreement.
In her eyes, this was a bossy man coming out of some love dramas.
But now she heard Kern talking, “Do you have a pen?”
Carol was so happy to give him a pen, “Oh...of course.”
Soon, Kern signed his name on the paper.
Waiting for check-in, he looked at the outside recliner in the corridor of yard; it was swinging by the wind. Then he smiled faintly.
Carol asked, “Sir, what are you looking at?”
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The readers' comments on the novel: I've Been There Before (Grace and Caden)
How can a woman suffer so much? How can a man be too cruel initially robbing her of dignity and all, then deceiving her after he knows he loves her? How can they not remarry, making their offspring illegitimate? The line between love and hatred is truly fine indeed! Thank you for this story....