Louis spoke neither hostile nor friendly, “Go ahead, please!”
“I would like to know Mr. Baxter’s preference for architecture style. Could you tell me something about it?”
Whether to answer or not was Louis’s business, she just had to ask it to fulfill her job responsibility.
Louis felt a bit disdain, but he replied seriously and politely, “About this question, I think it would be better for you to ask him by yourself. He happens to be right here. Would you like me to hand him the phone?”
Kingsley was right there?
Nora’s expression froze. Louis’s words were like a pot of muddy water splashing on her body, her whole body stiffened.
When she recovered, she said hastily: “No, no, you must be very busy, you can get your work done first!”
Then she hung up the phone abruptly, sat down on the chair and took deep breaths.
Louis hung up the phone, turned around and said to Kingsley, “Boss, just… just now your wife called.”
“What did she say?”
“She asked me your preference for design style of architecture, I told her to ask you by herself, and then she hung up the phone.”
It was Kingsley who asked him to kept Nora’s phone number, to keep in touch when necessary.
Louis had been working with Kingsley since the establishment of Rivertwon Group. There were quite a few rumors about Mr. Baxter outside, but actually he was extremely discreet about his private life and he would not mess with women. Sometimes Louis even suspected that Mr. Baxter didn’t like women. But he didn’t expect that his boss had got married without any indication, moreover, with a woman he didn’t like. In Louis’s opinion, that woman was good for nothing except her beauty.
Kingsley signed his name on the last page of the document, capped his pen, and rubbed his temple, “Give me the documents about her company.”
“Okay, I would prepare them for you.”
Kingsley nodded, “By the way, about the thing I asked you to check, did you check it?”
Louis shook his head, “Boss, the security-camera footage of Palace Hotel about that day was all gone, the manager resigned long ago and disappeared. But it should be someone else who had drugged you.”
Although Louis didn’t like his boss’s wife, he was an honest man after all.
Kingsley pursed his lips. It wasn’t Nora, then, was she involved the whole thing by mistake, or was there a conspiracy behind it?
“Boss, is it possible that someone wanted to frame you up by that incident so as to have something against you, but Ms. Cole happened to show up at that time? Or was she…” Louis paused for a second, “The one who set the whole thing up and made herself a victim, her purpose was to get money from you?”
Kingsley was silent. Getting along with her these days, he found that it seemed Nora was just a silly girl instead of the scheming type, or was she hiding too deep?
The memory of that night came back to Kingsley’s mind. He was so drunk at that time, and he remembered he had asked her name. She said her name was Nora, and then he had indulged himself in his desire.
After drinking some water in the chair, Nora told Shawn that Mr. Baxter’s assistant did not answer her phone and she could do nothing about it. Shawn was kind to her, told her it was all right and she could call him again next time.
Spencer snorted disdainfully after hearing it, “Why don’t you keep calling until he answers, you can’t even deal with such an easy task!”
Nora smiled, “Then you can keep calling him, I have things to do!”
Although Nora had a good temper and a nice personality, she was definitely not the type who endured bully without any protest.
Sure enough, Spencer had nothing to say to retort.
Shawn stood out to smooth things over, “All right, all right, I will think of other ways. Nora, you can go to do your other works now.”
The weather was getting cold these days. Nora was going to go to the mall to buy a few autumn clothing after work. The clothes in the mall were not cheap, she walked around and bought a turtleneck sweater and took the bus to go home. On the way, she saw the latest advertisement of People Weekly on the electronic display in downtown. Kingsley was on the front cover.
This man was destined to stand at the top of the world in future.
Kingsley came home soon after Nora arrived. Nora didn’t expect he would come home so early. Before she could say hello to him, Kingsley asked with a poker face, “Did you call Louis?”
With her head down, Nora answered, “Yeah, I did.”
“Why didn’t you just call me?” Kingsley curled his lips, and there was a hint of irony in his smile.
Nora returned him an embarrassed but polite smile, “You are busy, and I didn’t ask anything important.”
Kingsley moved close to her, leaned down, and gently tilted her chin up, “It is much easier to ask me for help than ask him. Perhaps you could beg me, and I would promise you something if I was in a good mood!”
Such a good bargain would never exist in this world. Nora was not stupid. She was absolutely aware of the dark desire in the man’s eyes. She swallowed hard, leaned back to try to avoid his hot breath.
“What do you say, Huh?” He drawled, with an indescribable flirtation.
Nora leaned back and supported herself with her hands on the sofa, looked up at him with pretended calm, “Did it mean that I have to sleep with you?”
Her heartbeat thundered in her ears. She tried get rid of his flirtation and intimacy given that the memories about it the last two times were not very pleasant.
Kingsley smiled. At that moment, the jealousy hidden deep in his heart broke out. The smile on his lips even turned malicious. He tightened his grip slightly, although he was smiling, his smile was cold without the slightest warmness, “You can sleep with Ringo, why can’t you sleep with me?”
Apparently, he believed what Maisy said, and it had become a thorn in his heart, which he didn’t show until now.
She felt short of breath and flushed with embarrassment.
Kingsley had a full view of her expression, pushed her directly onto the sofa, leaned over her and narrowed his eyes, “Are you really a virgin before that night with me? Nora, did you speak anything truth?”
Nora’s heartbeat was accelerated to its limit. she shrank, “Kingsley, stop it, we could talk in a nice way.”
She instinctively rejected this kind of intimacy with him, because she was afraid that she would suffer the overwhelming pain again the next second. Kingsley didn’t leave her any good memory about it, and it overshadowed her heart.
The man sneered, “why are you still pretending to be innocent? Or are you afraid that I can’t satisfy you?”
She gritted her teeth, tried to push him away, “Let go of me!”
Kingsley didn’t move an inch, “It is enough to play hard to get for once, paly it for too many times would be meaningless, right?”
Nora was so angry that her eyes were red and she was short of breath. Why did this man come to tease her? Sometimes she didn’t even understand what she meant to him. Why would he show up immediately when she was in trouble since he apparently hated her? And why would there were the gossips about him with so many women if he liked her?
The man’s eyes were scarily dark as he stared at her clothes, which were loosen due to her struggle. He leaned over, and suddenly bit on her collarbone.
Nora was dumfounded and felt ashamed. She knitted her eyebrow and pushed Kingsley frantically, “Don’t touch me!”
“Then do you want to be touched by whom? Ringo?”
Kingsley raised his head, asked with his lips curled up.
His smile was sarcastic and insulting. With her red eyes, Nora raised her hand to slap him without thought.