In Kerr's villa
After a busy day in the kitchen, Nicole picked up the cake she baked and contemplated it. Pleased with
the result, she smiled slightly.
"Mommy, you'll spoil Dad like this."
Jay stood by the kitchen's door with a frown. It seemed that all women were quite gullible. They would
spend the whole day cooking for men who hadn't even married them yet.
Therefore, Jay sounded helpless, completely forgetting that the man in question might be his father.
"I don't think so. Don't you love cheese cake? Because I've made it for you."
Afraid that Jay would be jealous of Kerr, Nicole tried to appease her son as she stared at his serious
face. He resembled so much to his father, Kerr.
However, Jay didn't seem to buy Nicole's words. Helplessly, he just shook his head and walked out of
the kitchen.
Meanwhile, outside, Avery was approaching the villa when she spotted a postman, wandering around
the front gate as if he was in some sort of dilemma. Immediately, she stopped the car.
"Can I help you?"
Avery asked, getting off her vehicle as she walked towards the man.
"Hello, I have a package for Miss Ning, but..."
The postman trailed off, looking embarrassedly at the heavily guarded villa.
"Let me handle it. I'll give it to her."
Reaching out to take the package from the man's hand, Avery squeezed it slightly. It felt like there was
nothing besides a few papers in there, so she thought it shouldn't be dangerous. Afterward, she turned
around and carried on to the Gu's villa.
At that moment, Vedder came up to greet her in person.
"Welcome, Miss Lin. Master has told me that you would come over. Miss Ning is baking now at the
kitchen."
An hour ago, Vedder received a call from Kerr in which he was informed that Avery would stop by.
"You don't have to worry about me. I'll go and find Nicole myself. Is Jay at home?"
Avery had never been a fan of such formalities. On the contrary, she had always been unrestrained.
Thus she decidedly made her way through the house by herself and intended to head straight to the
kitchen. Yet as soon as she heard the clear voice of Jay in the living room, she stopped.
"Godmother!"
Jay ran to Avery and hugged her leg. His eyes glinted in surprise when he looked up at her.
"Good boy, where is your mommy?"
Avery just couldn't help rubbing Jay's head.
"She's in the kitchen." Jay pointed to the kitchen's entrance and obediently went back to the sofa and
his laptop.
Avery smiled at the boy and then went straight to the kitchen. Once she went through the door, she
found Nicole with flour on her apron and instantly wanted to laugh.
"Let me see, who's the cook now?"
Nicole's smile widened the moment she heard Avery's voice. Turning around, she walked to her friend
and stretched out her hands to hold hers.
Noticing Nicole's flour-covered hands, Avery simply stepped back with a disgusting expression on her
face.
"Don't touch me!"
"Oh, I forgot it," Nicole suddenly said and turned to put her cake into the oven.
After she set the time, she washed her hands and took Avery upstairs as she changed into clean
clothes.
"Why are you here?"
Recently, Nicole had been so busy with Kerr that she hadn't seen Avery in a long time.
"Mr. Gu was worried that you would be bored at home and asked me to spend some time with you.
Honestly, I wasn't expecting you would get married so fast. How is it going? Should I call you Mrs. Gu
now?"
Avery couldn't help but make fun of the shy little woman in front of her.
"Are you mocking me?" Embarrassed, Nicole pushed Avery slightly before she sighed.
"But I must say it's not that easy. We are taking the first step towards this thousand-mile road. I don't
really know what to expect for the future."
Nicole didn't hide that she was worried, but she also smiled when she thought of Kerr's firmness.
"No matter what problems you run into, Kerr is always there. What are you worrying about? Oh, I
almost forgot. When I arrived at the gate, I came across a postman. He had this package for you, so I
brought it with me."
Avery handed the package to Nicole and curiously watched her as she opened it.
"What is it? Is it a surprise from Kerr?" Avery wondered.
Nicole was also curious about what this was about, but once she opened the package, a stack of
photos fell out, spreading through the floor. She then quickly crouched to pick them up but didn't get up
as expected.
With her eyes turning red, she froze when she saw the familiar face in one of the photos.
"Nicole, what's wrong with you?"
Standing next to Nicole, Avery couldn't see her face but sensed something was wrong.
Nicole managed to get back on her feet and then pulled a bunch of papers from the package. As she
scanned through the content, her face darkened.
Finally, understanding the meaning behind those photos and papers, Nicole let go of them and absently
clenched her fists on either side of her body with her eyes hollow.
Apprehensively, Avery collected the documents Nicole released and widened her eyes in shock as
soon as she saw the content.
"Is that true? Kerr is the one responsible for your father's death? Was the Gu Group the company
which destroyed the Ning Group? Nicole... Do you really believe this?"
In fact, Avery had found some clues leading to this before, but then so much happened, and the clues
never took them anywhere.
"All the clues you've collected pointed to Kerr, right? Avery, I remember you've told me this before."
The serene look on Nicole's face, in contrast to Avery's shocked expression, seemed as if she wasn't
asking about Kerr but rather someone unimportant altogether. However, only Nicole knew how uneasy
she felt on the inside. But there was no room for this feeling now.
The more challenging the situation was, the calmer she needed to force herself to be.
In the meantime, Avery looked back at Nicole with a frown, recalling the investigation she did.
"I did investigate this, but I found that more people were looking into the matter as well. Before I could
get actual evidence, someone had been faster than I was.
What I do know is that your father wanted to work with the Gu group, but for some reason, they
stopped cooperating. The Ning Group suffered from this loss and lost many projects.
The Gu Group, however, managed to get the projects your father lost."
In fact, Avery had found some clues leading to this before, but then so much happened, and the clues
never took them anywhere.
"All the clues you've collected pointed to Kerr, right? Avery, | remember you've told me this before."
The serene look on Nicole's face, in contrast to Avery's shocked expression, seemed as if she wasn't
asking about Kerr but rather someone unimportant altogether. However, only Nicole knew how uneasy
she felt on the inside. But there was no room for this feeling now.
The more challenging the situation was, the calmer she needed to force herself to be.
In the meantime, Avery looked back at Nicole with a frown, recalling the investigation she did.
"| did investigate this, but | found that more people were looking into the matter as well. Before | could
get actual evidence, someone had been faster than | was.
What | do know is that your father wanted to work with the Gu group, but for some reason, they
stopped cooperating. The Ning Group suffered from this loss and lost many projects.
The Gu Group, however, managed to get the projects your father lost."
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