Chapter 137

Kirk’s heart missed a beat. One of his hands was still placed against the door as he asked, “What happened?”

Henry then briefed him about what had happened before.

Kirk fell silent afterward, unsettling Henry. “Mr. Kirk, did I do something wrong?”

“You’ve done a good job.” Kirk assured Henry, despite the gloom in his eyes.

“You’ll be the new owner of this hotel starting–tomorrow.”

Henry’s eyes turned as wide as saucers when he heard that. He stared in a daze at the closed door before him, flabbergasted.

He was merely one of the staff there. How did he just turn into its boss all of a sudden?

In the room, Kirk carefully took off Caroline’s shoes. Once her feet were bare, he finally saw the cuts and blisters on the bottom of her feet. His eyes widened in shock.

After taking out the bottle of ointment from the bag that Henry gave him, he started to slowly and gently apply the ointment.

Only after he was done with both her feet did he pat her cheeks to arouse her from her sleep.

Wake up,” he said.

Still sleepy, Caroline tried to toss around, but Kirk held her legs together to stop her.

“Be good. Get up and have some hot chocolate. I don’t want you to get sick.”

Caroline then pouted and mumbled, “I don’t want that. I’m tired. I want to sleep.”

“Come on.” He coaxed her as if she were a young child.

With one hand on her waist, he helped her up slowly and gingerly so that the ointment on her feet wouldn’t rub off on the sheets.

Although Caroline was sitting up now, her mind was still groggy. She absentmindedly opened her mouth to take sip after sip of the hot chocolate. She looked very much like a cute little bunny.

After finishing the drink, she slid under the sheets and started mumbling again. “I wanna sleep…

Kirk… come sleep too.”

After planting a kiss on her cheek, Kirk pulled the blanket over her shoulders. Then, he stood up and walked out to the balcony.

He dialed Charles‘ number and said, “I want to know what happened at the pool party tonight”

Half an hour later, Kirk returned to the swimming pool. The party had ended long ago, and there wasn’t a person in sight.

The only thing that moved was the rippling water under the lights. Avery stood near Kirk, her face pale.

His silence made her heart clench in fear. She had grown up with him, so she knew just how terrifying he could be at times like this.

“Where were you when Carrie jumped into the pool after getting surrounded by all those people?”

His face was firm. The soft glow of the moonlight only served to emphasize the coldness in his eyes.

Avery shuddered and muttered. “I was changing upstairs.”

“Are you saying that you didn’t hear a thing even though something like that happened?”

“I heard it, but parties are supposed to be noisy. I didn’t think much about it,” Avery explained.

Kirk turned to face her. His eyes were cold and indifferent. “Charles,” he called out.

Charles appeared, shoving two women in front of Kirk. The women were tied up, and they were Avery’s good friends, Lily and Amy.

They started crying for help the moment they saw Avery. “Ave, help us!”

Avery felt panic wash over her, and she found herself trembling uncontrollably. Clenching her fists, she took a deep breath and asked, “Kirk, what are you doing?”

“They’re your friends. Do you need me to say more?”

Kirk’s brows were drawn closely together now, and the look in his eyes was sharp and ruthless.

When he’d watched the video, a thousand ways to torture these two women had flashed through his mind after seeing how they had bullied Caroline.

Avery raised her eyes to meet him and smiled softly at him.

“I don’t understand. Care to explain?”

Slowly, Kirk opened his lips to say her name, pausing at every syllable. “Avery!”