Chapter 50
Kenneth said seriously, “inderd. When first laid eyes on you all those years ago, the flames of desire ignited within me and is to marry you
Flames of desire?
Heidi smacked him in the chest. “Watch your wording! Nicole was born of the combination of our excellent genes, so every man would easily become stress her, let alone Mr. Compton
After Nicole and Aaron lett the Hood residence, Aaron handed her a document.
Nicole skimmed through it and realized that it was Information on every active orphanage in Silverwood in the year that Monica was adopted
Het eyes lit up, and she looked at Aren with pleasant surprise. “How did you know i wanted to look into this
Aaron tilted his chin up with an air of nonchalance. “The fact that Monica is so against thee Boyals recognizing you as their daughter again mema shar’a kanonen you were the Bords‘ real daughter for a long time.
“Don’t you suspect that Monica’s interference might be the reason your parents didn’t manage to find you for so many years?
Nicole’s smile widened. As expected, Aaron had the same idea as her! She was suspecting that as well
“Thank you, Aaron.”
Aaron arched an eyebrow at her, interest gleaming in his eyes. “You’re not addressing me as Mr. Compton anymore?”
Nicole’s heart thumped loudly in her chest. “Is there a difference?–
“It means you’ve become more intimate with me.”
From now on, they would be able to do more intimate things.
Nicole sensed that something was off about what Aaron said, but by the time she regained her senses, she realized that the distance between them ba while she hadn’t been paying attention. If he wanted to try anything right now, it would be far too easy to do so.
Feeling her cheels grow war, she immediately shrank back and put some distance between them.
She had never been a fan of intimate physical contact. In fact, perhaps because she was a doctor, she had a serious case of mysophobia.
But why was it that getting close to Aaron only made her face tum red and her heart beat faster?
Aaron’s eyes darkened when he saw Nicole shrinking away from him again.
“I’m not going to tolerate it for long, Nicole,” he thought to himself.
Meanwhile, Monica was standing by the second–floor window of the Boyd residence. She watched Aaron and Nicole leave by car, their intimate postu her green with envy.
Waves upon waves of
waves of hatred surged within her eyes. In the end, she couldn’t stop herself from dialing Jacob’s number,
The moment Jacob picked up, she asked in a terribly harsh voice, “When are we going to make a move? Once the relationship between Nicole and Aaron properly develops, it’ll be very difficult to do anything to Nicole!”
Atter all, she knew that Aaron pretty much had the entirety of Silverwood in the palm of his hands, and anyone brave enough to provoke Aaron Compton was basically courting death.
Jacob’s voice turned even more malicious. “Nicole certainly played her cards well by immediately running Into Aaron’s arms after dumping me well, she c blame me for not sparing her any mercy, then ”
He and Monica reached an agreement immediately, and in the blink of an eye, negative news about ecole spread throughout various social media plat
This time, news spread that Nicole was almost never in school outside of classes back when she was in university.
She worked various odd jobs back then, including that of a convenience store employee and a home tutor. Therefore, reports regarding Nicole being kept by a rich man during that period of time immediately became a trending topic.
Nicole frowned when she read these news reports.
Kept by a rich man?
She zoomed in on the number plate of the car pictured in the news photo and discovered that it was from when she had been working as a tutor.
The house of the student she had been tutoring was located quite a distance away from Sulverwood University, so the student’s parents had offered to fetch her from university
With the time she saved on commuting to and from their place, she could tutor their child for an extra hour.
