Nicole felt like the rain was falling onto her heart.
Jared held onto the steering wheel tightly, not daring to relax. It was dangerous to drive on a mountain
road in this kind of weather, and Nicole's questions were not helping.
"It's... Director Ning, I think it's better if you ask Mr. Gu yourself when you see him later."
Kerr did not tell Nicole where he was going. Jared did not think it was appropriate for him to tell Nicole.
"Is he hiding another woman up in the mountains?"
Nicole was speculating, but at the same time, she could not help feeling sad.
If that was the case, Nicole hurrying there to see Kerr with another woman would be the biggest joke of
all. However, she was still extremely worried. All she wanted was to see Kerr safe and sound.
"No, of course not, Director Ning. How can you think of Mr. Gu like that? He's doing everything for you!"
Jared felt compelled to defend Kerr from Nicole's baseless conjectures, but he soon realized that he
had just exposed Kerr's secret.
"Doing everything for me? What does that mean? Tell me, Jared Kang!"
Stubbornness and seriousness now took jealousy's place on Nicole's face.
Jared looked at Nicole through the rear-view mirror and sighed. The cat's out of the bag now. He had to
tell her the truth.
"Here's the thing. There's an undeveloped area up in the mountains with good environment. Mr. Gu
planned to develop the area and give it to you as a gift. He let Mr. Qin supervise the project.
Construction has been tricky because of the site's terrain. There has been an accident. The media
rushed there after finding out about the situation. Mr. Qin was afraid that it would affect the Gu Group,
so he told Mr. Gu.
When Mr. Gu learned about it, he was worried that Mr. Qin couldn't resolve it alone, so he rushed over."
Jared briefly explained the situation to Nicole. There was no point withholding information from her
since they were on their way to the site, but Jared concealed the seriousness of the matter so as not to
frighten Nicole.
"Give to me as a gift? Why would he do that?"
Processing Jared's explanation, Nicole felt even more confused.
"Mr. Gu wanted to give you the future you want. Please don't tell Mr. Gu that I told you about this,
Director Ning. He wanted to surprise you. He would've told you this himself after everything's sorted
out."
Kerr definitely could send Jared to a remote place for spilling the beans.
Nicole opened her mouth but said nothing. She just looked out the window in silence, her heart filled
with bitterness.
She never thought that Kerr would keep his promise little by little. It turned out that in his heart, she was
really special to him.
Maybe she was really the only woman that he wanted.
"Fine, but please hurry."
She could not wait to see Kerr.
"All right."
Jared felt relieved to hear surprise in Nicole's tone. As long as Nicole was happy, he would gladly take
whatever punishment Kerr decided to dole out later for his tattling.
Because of the heavy rain, they still had not reached their destination after driving for three hours. On a
normal day, the journey only took one and a half hours.
"Sit tight, Director Ning. It's difficult mountain road ahead."
Jared warned Nicole.
They were about to reach their destination when Jared stopped the car.
"What's wrong? Are we there?"
Nicole looked out her window. It was dark, but there was a dim light in front of their car.
"There's light ahead. I think someone's there. I'll go look. Please stay in the car, Director Ning. Lock the
door behind me. We're now in the mountains. We must be very careful."
Nicole nodded her understanding, and Jared stepped out of the car. He slowly approached the light
ahead.
Nicole stayed on alert. Jared was right. They were in the wild in the middle of the night, an area
sparsely populated and undeveloped. It was definitely unsafe.
Jared came back about ten minutes later. A strong-looking man entered the car with him and took the
passenger seat.
"Director Ning, this is Kim, a confidant of Mr. Gu. Kim, this is Miss Ning."
Kim turned to look at Nicole who was sitting at the backseat, nodded, and spoke with great respect.
"Pleasure to meet you, Miss Ning. You can call me Kim."
Nicole could not see Kim clearly because of the car's dim light, but from his hoarse voice, she could tell
that he was a young man.
"Okay, Kim. What's going on here? Have you gotten hold of Kerr?"
Obviously, Kim came up here to help Kerr.
"When we got here, we found lightning-struck trees blocking the road. A car couldn't have gone
through.
I've already called in a cleanup crew, but they're going to take a while because of the bad weather. I
haven't gotten in touch with Mr. Gu, but don't worry, Miss Ning. Mr. Gu had passed this road before the
trees fell down. Otherwise, he'd be stuck here."
Kim had sent some of his men to check if there was a car pressed under the fallen trees but found
none. It was a relief.
"When will the road be cleaned up?"
Nicole could not stop worrying.
"It's hard to say, but it can't be done in a short time. Besides, it's raining heavily now and the road is
hard to travel. I checked the surrounding environment and found tire tracks on the edge of the cliff."
Kim did not withhold information, and it scared Nicole to death.
"Could it be Kerr's car?"
Nicole's heart was now pounding wildly against her chest. Even if she did not know how high the
mountain was exactly, she was sure that nothing and no one could survive a fall from one of its cliffs.
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