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 th
Drugged one night by her ex-boyfriend, a mysterious man took advantage of her in an ecstatic night filled with sex.
To take her revenge, she married the man, and used him.
"As long as I'm alive, I'm still his legal wife, while all of you are just his mistresses."
She remained adamant even when he was involved in scandals with other women.
Eventually she stormed off after she learned that he had betrayed her again.But life brought her back to him a few years later, to his astonishment.
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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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