Jay sighed.
"Avery, will you be okay if I leave Jay with you tomorrow? We have that bidding meeting tomorrow and I
cannot miss it. I have to return to the company,"
Nicole asked Avery.
Nobody could stop time. It would quietly pass by no matter what you wanted it to do. Time waited for no
one. The bidding event finally came.
"Yes, we'll be alright. I promise that I will take good care of him. But are you sure you want to leave with
Jay so soon after the bidding event? Jay still needs more rest. You should at least give it a little more
time. Plus, you haven't figured out the truth about what happened to Ning Group yet,"
Avery told Nicole in an attempt to make her stay longer.
"I know. I'll still have to think about it. Right now, the most important thing for me is Jay's health."
Nicole thought that perhaps God was playing tricks on her somehow. Right now, she had no choice but
to stay a bit longer so that Jay could recover completely. However, she also had a lingering feeling that
if she did not leave as soon as possible, she would never get the chance to leave again.
The next morning, Nicole made sure that she had all the documents with her before she left the
hospital and returned to the Gu Group.
"Director Ning, you're back," Lily greeted as soon as she saw her.
Lily looked at Nicole like she was a family member that she hadn't seen in a long time.
"I sent you messages every day, didn't I? How have you been? We are heading to the site soon, right?"
Nicole organized all the documents she needed to bring to the site.
Lily suddenly heard a voice from behind them when she was about to speak, which made her turn
around.
"Director Ning, your ride is ready. Mr. Gu is waiting for you in the car."
Jared stood stiffly by the door. He arrived so suddenly that it almost felt like he knew the exact time that
Nicole would arrive in the company.
"Okay, yeah, I'll head over there."
Without any hesitation, Nicole walked out of the office with the documents clutched tightly in her hands.
Before she left the hospital to go to the company, she had prepared herself. It wasn't just the necessary
materials that she prepared but also her mental state. Today was an important bidding event and she
knew that Kerr wouldn't miss it. She couldn't have avoided seeing him even if she tried.
When she got inside the car, she didn't bother to greet Kerr but instead, just silently took the seat
beside him. She felt like her heart was about to jump out of her rib cage based on how fast it was
beating. Maybe she wasn't as strong as she thought she was.
"How is Jay doing?"
Kerr glanced at the woman beside him as he asked.
Kerr left the hospital days ago but he still kept tabs on Nicole and Jay.
"He's okay. We're fine. Thank you for the concern, Mr. Gu," Nicole answered. "By the way, I need to
give this to you. I was meant to give it earlier."
Nicole fished out the written resignation letter from her bag and handed it to Kerr.
Even if she had decided that she would stay with Jay at the hospital for a few more days, she knew she
couldn't stay in the Gu Group any longer. She wanted to avoid any more encounters with Kerr.
However, Kerr didn't even want to open the letter.
"Is this what you really want?"
he asked, even though Nicole already looked seriously committed to resigning from the Gu Group. But
when Kerr was handed the letter, he just couldn't accept it in his heart. He was unwilling to let her go.
Upon hearing Kerr's voice, Nicole turned her head so that they were facing each other.
"Yes, that is what I— HMM!"
Before Nicole could finish her sentence, Kerr suddenly cupped her small face with his hands. His eyes
looked down on her plump lips. Without wasting any time, he suddenly kissed her.
As soon as his lips met hers, Nicole pushed him away with all her strength and slapped his cheek
instinctively.
Clap!
The loud noise quickly sobered up both of them.
Nicole immediately regretted slapping him as soon as she did it. She stared at her stinging palm in
shock but did not say anything to Kerr.
"Do you really hate me that much?"
When Kerr saw that Nicole was trying to avoid eye contact, he couldn't help but feel upset about it.
He had never felt so defeated before… all because of one woman.
"Mr. Gu, you should be old enough to know what is acceptable behavior and what isn't."
Nicole didn't want to look at Kerr in the eyes because she didn't want him to see how much she
struggled to hide her sadness. She hoped that they would arrive at their destination soon.
She just couldn't stand to be in the same room with Kerr anymore.
The aura in the car definitely became extremely awkward after what had just happened.
Jared sat in the driver's seat and tried his best to be as quiet as he could. He couldn't help but feel
even more respect for Nicole because she stood up for herself like that. Jared had worked for Kerr for a
long time but he had never witnessed a woman push away Kerr or even dared to act so rudely to him.
Inside a silver-gray Porsche, Sunny was driving alongside Kerr's car. She witnessed with her own two
eyes the kiss that had just happened between Kerr and Nicole.
She was enraged as she saw that scene. She reached for her phone and quickly dialed a number.
"Did you do the thing I asked you to do?"
She didn't want Nicole to have any more chance with Kerr. The person on the other side of the call
gave a positive answer and she hung up the phone with a satisfied smile on her face.
Even though Kerr asked Sunny to leave the Gu Group, he didn't explain anything about those pictures
to the public. For her, that meant that he didn't want to push her away.
Upon Nicole's arrival at the bidding venue, she immediately went straight to the lounge and sat there.
She was still upset by her sudden kiss with Kerr in the car.
"Director Ning, you are a really diligent employee."
Sunny reached for the door and pushed it open.
When she saw Kerr had left, she quickly went in to search for Nicole.
As soon as she heard Sunny's voice, Nicole stood up and walked over to the window. She opened it,
hoping that the breeze outside would wake her up.
"If I'm not mistaken, Miss He is no longer part of the Gu Group. So why are you here?"
The day that the news spread, Sunny had already left the Gu Group. People speculated that she did it
to avoid any suspicion of her relationship with Kerr.
"I may not be working for the company anymore but I'll still take over the company with Kerr in the
future. Am I correct to assume that Director Ning would have already left the company by then?"
Sunny noticed the USB flash drive that Nicole placed gently on the table. She walked over there
quietly.
It never occurred to Nicole that Sunny already knew the news soon after she handed her resignation
letter to Kerr. It seemed that Kerr really told Sunny everything.
"Ah, well, congratulations then, Miss He. I wish you the best."
Now that she decided to resign from the company, she hoped that Sunny would leave her alone. Nicole
knew that even Sunny was out of the picture, there would surely be other women. She had to let go of
Kerr as soon as possible to avoid any more heartbreaks.
"Of course. I have something to talk about with Kerr, so I'll be leaving now."
With the USB flash drive in her hand, Sunny quickly left.
She stared at the flash drive in her hand with delight. Her original plan was just to antagonize Nicole
but it seemed that she found something much more interesting.
While walking into the bidding venue, Baron immediately recognized Sunny as he walked past her. He
quickly stopped walking and turned around to confirm. He saw her get in her car and it swiftly drove
away. He was confused about what could Sunny be doing here.
"The He Group isn't participating in this bidding event, right?" he asked his assistant near him.
The assistant scanned the documents in her hand and replied, "No, the He Group isn't in this
bidding."
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