The Reunion After Seven Years

Chapter 39 Talking In His Sleep

"I'll just keep Jay to believe that Baron is a good friend to me. There's no need for Jay to know who he really is."

The only thing she wished for in that moment was Kerr to understand her. If he ever found out that she was lying to him, he would let Jay know that his mother was a liar.

Nicole promised to herself that she would always teach Jay good values, such as telling the truth. Although she had to lie to Kerr for her own sake, she would never let her lie to be discovered by her child because he'd probably end up learning a bad habit.

Besides, she had a feeling that Kerr somehow drew Jay's attention a long time ago by persuading him and making some kind of deal between them.

"Baron will never get the respect that Jay has for me. He didn't acknowledge himself as Jay's father and I know he won't do it now.

I can assure you that you'll realize that I'm better for you and Jay rather than Baron. I don't care if your relationship with him was relevant or not."

Kerr kept his sight at her with such kindness.

Kerr was probably the hardest man on Earth to trick. He could tell with ease that no signs of love or any type of emotion manifested in Nicole's eyes when she talked about Baron.

Deep inside of Kerr, he truly felt that there wasn't place awaiting for Baron in Nicole's heart.

"I appreciate that you agreed to keep Baron's true identity to Jay as a secret, Mr. Gu. But I'd like to maintain the situation as it currently is. It's been quite a long time since Jay and I've been living together, I don't want anything or anyone to come and change it all.

And judging by the time, I think I should get inside the apartment. Thank you so much for the ride back home."

Nicole gave a sign of gratitude to Kerr, turned to her right to pull the car door's trigger and got out. She wouldn't look back until she was sure that he had left as she was walking towards the building.

She took a deep breath and released a sigh of satisfaction as she watched the black Porsche vanish.

She didn't deny it though. She was scared to hell in his car because she thought that he would question her about the truth in any second. Fortunately, she succeeded in hiding her fear with calmness.

In case that anything wrong had happened in that car, she wouldn't have known how to react against Kerr and how to protect her child.

A sentiment of worry and anxiety emerged inside of Nicole as she realized that she had never felt so defenseless and weak with someone's presence before.

She heavily stepped forward the apartment's door and walked in. As she approached the living room, she could see that the main light was still turned on but no one was in there. Then she realized that her child was already asleep as she watched the clock hung on the wall.

She walked towards Jay's room as she was quietly taking off her high-heeled shoes. He had his sheets down to his feet, so she put them back on his body to cover him from the cold as she was just thinking about stuff. Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.

"...I love you too, Father."

Jay whispered with his soft voice as he was smiling from left to right.

Nicole had a hard time trying to understand what she just witnessed. She was so shocked that she couldn't even move a muscle. She stood still for a couple of minutes and then left.

She had no clue that Jay was somehow interested in his father that he even had dreams about him. He was a kid, after all, no matter how smart he was.

She started to feel sorry for her boy.

Maybe she should've never kept secrets from Jay. She wondered for a moment if Kerr would be willing to take care of Jay if he ever found out about his true identity.

However, she totally discarded that possibility of her mind since she remembered the amount of women that were around Kerr. She wasn't sure if he could be able to behave nice towards Jay all the time.

Right after Nicole had left the bedroom, Jay immediately got rid of his sheets as he jumped out of the bed, smiling happily.

Early when the sun had just awakened, Nicole arrived to the company as she felt a strange feeling of dislike when she walked in.

Lily was just chilling as she was cleaning up her desk and getting rid of her trash. However, Nicole sensed that the atmosphere in the company was dense.

"Hi Lily, is there something wrong today?"

Lily stopped cleaning for a second and turned her body around as she heard Nicole's voice. It seemed by the look on her face that she was flustered. She just made a gesture of hesitation as she always did and went back to cleaning.

Then she turned around again and said to Nicole with such zero interest, "You don't need to worry about anything. It's just that the employees here are focused on nothing but being unproductive."

Lily heard the rumors as soon as she arrived at the company this morning, but she hadn't seen the gossip in the flesh until now. However, she knew how Nicole was at work, so she took the rumors with a grain of salt.

Nicole didn't give it a second thought as she heard Lily's words. She headed to her computer and started working on the partnership with the Chu Group which was more important than anything else at the moment. The only thing that was missing now for Nicole was Kerr's signature.

"Hey Lily, could you do me a favor? I need you to hand this document for Mr. Gu to sign."

Lily didn't bother and went straight to Kerr's office with the document. When she was about to knock the door, his new secretary showed up and stopped her.

"Not so fast! Do I know you? Well, I don't think so. Why are you looking for Kerr?"

Sunny couldn't help but be suspicious as she was wearing a white suit and stood firmly in front of Lily.

She wouldn't let any other woman get close to Kerr since she wanted only herself to be around him.

"Hello, may I introduce myself? My name is Lily and I am Director Ning's assistant. She needs Mr. Gu to get this document signed as soon as possible."

Lily would've naturally said something back to her, but she decided not to when she realized how expensive Sunny's white suit was. It was obvious that she wasn't the right person to mess with.

"Cool, let me check it."

After hearing that it was Nicole who sent Lily to Kerr's office, she made cheerful noises.

It was explicit that Sunny had a personal matter with Nicole. She saw Nicole getting out of Kerr's car yesterday. Therefore, she thought that Nicole was looking for any chance to reach out to Kerr today.

She took the document and carefully scanned it as she turned around. She didn't find any notes with messages in the document. She turned back again and handed the document back to Lily abruptly.

"I guess that you're professional enough to notice what the mistake is here. You have no idea the losses that this company may suffer with such errors like this! You seriously need to take a training course again! Go and hand back this atrocity to your director and ask her to redo it."

Sunny was apparently mad as she aggressively shouted at Lily.

Lily couldn't believe what she just witnessed. She felt truly blown away as she headed her way back to Nicole's desk with concerning eyes.

Lily had always been confident when it came to Nicole's performance in the company since she hardly ever made mistakes. Nevertheless, Sunny looked pretty serious. So she decided to check it out with Nicole.

As Kerr could also hear Sunny's heated show, he asked Jared without even bothering to land his sight on him.

"Could you go and check that everything is alright, please? And take the chance to tell Sunny that she's working in one of the biggest companies in the city, not in some kind of vegetable market."