"How generous! I need three days to get my affairs in order. I don't want to do things sloppily."
Jared's eyes widened in surprise as he heard Nicole's words from the recorder, and he looked at Kerr.
But Kerr remained calm, as if what Nicole had said didn't matter to him at all.
"Mr. Gu, Miss Ning..."
"How are constructions of the Sea Heart Island progressing?"
Kerr glanced down at the documents in his hand.
"The development is ongoing, and it will take some time."
Jared stared at Kerr in confusion.
"Mr. Gu, do you believe the recording to be fake?"
"It's true. It is Nicole's voice. We need to speed up the construction of the Sea Heart Island, and
strengthen security around Jay."
Kerr knew Nicole well. She must have her reasons. No wonder she suddenly came to him. It seemed
that she had gradually begun to see him as someone she could depend on.
'Three days?' It seemed that he would have to cherish the sweetness that Nicole gave him as there
were only three days left.
A slight smile tugged at the corners of Kerr's mouth, confusing Jared. Instead of becoming vexed by
what Nicole had said, Kerr seemed almost happy, which was illogical.
But Jared didn't dare to question any further, so he had to resolve matters according to Kerr's orders.
Nicole didn't know where to go while she was driving the car. She couldn't reveal any of this matter to
Avery or Baron. She couldn't bring the power of the Gu family down on them, and neither the Lin family
nor the Fang family could oppose them.
While she was considering this, Nicole's phone rang. She looked at the caller ID and saw it was a call
from Avery. She immediately answered it.
"Avery."
When Avery heard Nicole's voice, she seemed to have found someone she could vent her spleen on.
"Nicole, are you in the hospital? I'll come to you. I can't carry on like this."
Avery slammed the door shut while she held the phone tightly in her hand. Her anger was obviously
detected from her tone.
Even though Nicole could only hear her over the phone, she could hear her impatience, and she
couldn't help shaking her head.
"I'll come pick you up. I'm not far from your home now. Wait for me there."
"Okay."
After hearing Nicole's offer, Avery agreed and hung up the call. She turned back to look at the villa
behind her and glanced up at the window on the second floor. She could no longer see the man.
It was sunny outside, but she stubbornly refused to look back. Instead, she squatted on the steps
leading up to the villa, waiting for Nicole.
Fortunately, only ten minutes later, Nicole's car pulled up at the door of the Lin family's villa.
"Finally, you are here! If you didn't arrive now, I would have contracted sunstroke!"
Avery quickly opened the passenger door and immediately got in.
"Why didn't you wait for me inside your home? So, where do you want to go?"
Nicole started the car again and started driving.
"Anywhere but here is fine. I don't want to go back home anyway!"
leaning back against the car seat, Avery replied in an impatient tone.
"Your adoptive elder brother came to see you again?"
Avery recalled that only seven years ago, she had seen Avery behave like this. Although she was the
only daughter of the Lin family, her parents had adopted a boy child who was one year older than
Avery. As the adopted son of the Lin family, he became her brother.
"Don't even mention him. I must have wronged him in a previous life, and that's why he comes seeking
revenge on me in this life. How did you get out of the hospital? Is Jay still in the hospital?"
The thought of Zachary Lin gave Avery a throbbing headache, so she changed the topic, not wanting to
even think of him.
"Jay is still in hospital. I also ran into some trouble. I didn't mean to say anything about it to you, but
now I don't know what to do. Please help me."
Parking the car in front of a private club, Nicole accompanied Avery inside.
Once they were seated in a private room, Nicole explained everything that had happened earlier that
morning to Avery.
"So you are really going to take the check and leave Kerr?"
Avery sipped at her glass of water. She was used to this type of thing happening. After all, it often
happened in their circles, and most people had become accustomed to using money to solve all their
problems.
"What do you think?"
Nicole cradled her head in her folded arms on the table, feeling absolutely dejected. While she easily
spoke so aggressively, it was an entirely more complex matter to actually do what she had said.
She didn't want to leave Kerr at all, but now she was at her wit's end.
"I don't think you can be bribed with money. But you really need to be more careful. The Gu family is
the most powerful family in the city, but since you have Jay, what are you afraid of? You can ask for a
paternity test with Kerr.
Then you simply need to show the DNA test result to the Gu family, and that will sort things out. I don't
think the Gu family will refuse to accept Jay, do you?"
Avery believed that Jay was like a protective amulet for Nicole. Families like the Gu's placed high value
on their descendants.
"I don't want Jay to grow up in the Gu family because I know how the Gu family deals with things. I
don't want him to grow up in such an environment. Can you help me with the money to get him away
from here?
I'm staying here to fight against them to the end."
Nicole's eyes lit up, and she looked at Avery excitedly. This way, she didn't need to give up Kerr as Jay
could be moved to a place of safety.
"I really want to help you, but Zachary Lin has taken my passport and identity card. I can't leave A City
now. I'll even have to rely on you to shelter me tonight."
At the mention of Zachary Lin, Avery's anger surged to the forefront again.
"I still have an apartment where I once lived. You can stay there for a while."
Nicole's hopes were instantly shattered, and once again she lay her head on the table, feeling a sense
of despair.
"Don't throw in the towel yet. There will be a solution. If you were a princess of a powerful and rich
family, the Gu family will surely ask Kerr to marry you. In fact, I really believe that you are a princess."
Having known Nicole for so many years, Avery always felt that Nicole looked like a princess who had
accidentally lost her way and ended up in the place where the common people lived.
"Thank you for your kind words, Miss Lin. If I do become a princess one day, I will not forget you."
Although Nicole said this, she didn't believe it even for a minute.
Even if she were a princess, she wouldn't solve every problem. A princess was seen as being noble,
shining like a diamond in everyone else's eyes. But only the princess herself knew how she felt. It was
the similar situation to Kerr's. To outsiders, he seemed to be a successful man, but only she knew how
lonely he really felt.
At that time, Nicole had no clue that Avery's words would come true one day.
In the old house of the Gu family
After parking her car at the front gates of the Gus' home, Sunny got out of the car as soon as she saw
Kelvin coming outside.
"Uncle Kelvin, is Mrs. Gu at home? I've come to see her."
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