Wooing My ex-wife (Gwendolyn and Maverick) novel Chapter 457

All the deleted documents were gone.

Kieran wasn’t upset by it. He continued to translate the remaining three documents.

However, his typing speed had slowed down a lot.

Once again, silence ensued in the office. Nobody said anything more.

Time seemed to tick by faster when everyone was busy. In the blink of an eye, an hour had passed.

Inez began to pack up her stuff to get off work. “Once you’re done organizing the translated documents, send them to me,” she said casually.

Kieran paused what he was doing and turned to look at her. “Aren’t you going to check them?”

“You’ve finished translating. What is there for me to check?”

Kieran lowered his gaze, finding it hard to speak. “I… I have two more documents left to be translated.”

Inez was stunned. She shot him a look and asked, “You had three documents left one hour ago. And now, there are still two left? What have you been doing for the past hour?”

Inez carefully recalled and didn’t remember seeing Kieran slacking off. He had indeed been focusing on his translation.

Kieran’s face stiffened slightly. He didn’t make any response.

Inez walked over suspiciously and took a look at his computer screen. Soon, she noticed something was amiss.

“I came by earlier and saw that you had translated these documents. Why are they gone? Are you trying to fool me?”

“I accidentally deleted them, so I had to translate them all over again,” Kieran explained calmly.

Inez stared at him in confusion. She immediately clicked the recycle bin on his computer, but it was empty.

“So you’re saying that you accidentally deleted them from the recycle bin too?” she teased.

Kieran fell silent.

“Even if you happened to delete the files for real, judging from your ability, you should be able to translate them again in no time. Do you think I’m easy to fool?” she went on.

Kieran pursed his lips. His ears were slightly red.

He wasn’t good at lying, so he didn’t know what to say.

Inez’s face was gloomy. “You’re playing tricks right under my nose on your first day of work. Do you think I won’t punish you just because you have a distinguished status?”

Swallowing hard, Kieran clenched his fists. “In this office, you’re the CEO, and I’m your secretary. Feel free to punish me for the mistakes I made.”

Inez fixed her eyes on him, feeling a little taken aback.

It was the first time she had seen Kieran, who was always haughty and cold, being so humble.

Indeed, she seemed like his boss.

“In that case, I’m more than glad to help you complete your childhood memories, Mr. Kieran.”

Inez walked to her desk and took out a sandalwood ruler from the drawer.

Previously, she had used that to educate her cousin brother who had interned at the company. Since then, she had been keeping the ruler in the drawer.

Inez felt a little bad for using it on Kieran, who was the second son of the Harris family and also the most powerful man in Salinsburgh.

However, as she pondered about it, there didn’t seem to be anything wrong with teaching her secretary a lesson for being dishonest.

Moreover, she knew what she was doing.

Mustering her courage, she walked toward Kieran with steady steps.

Kieran felt guilty as he watched her come over to him. He had been obedient since he was young and hadn’t caused any trouble. No one had used a ruler to hit him before, so he didn’t know how it felt.

His Adam’s apple bobbed. By then, Inez had already walked up to him. “Please stretch out your left hand, Mr. Kieran,” she ordered sternly.

While sitting, he looked up at her and extended his hand as told.