“…”
Kendrick replied bluntly and successfully stopped Niamh from leaving.
“I need to work overtime tonight. Stay here with me.”
“…”
“I mean, I need you to stay and help me.” Kendrick corrected himself.
Niamh looked at the man who had a serious expression on his face and did not say anything more.
He walked over to his desk and sat down. Then, he touched his computer with his fingers.
“Did you turn on my computer just now?” Kendrick’s deep eyes met Niamh’s.
Niamh nodded because she felt that it would not be appropriate to lie. “Yeah, there was an urgent call for you just now, so…”
“How do you know the password to my computer?”
“I don’t.” Niamh declined quickly. “I just randomly guessed. Usually, men would use their beloved woman’s birthday as their password. So, I tried Mrs. Waldburg’s birthday.”
After Kendrick heard Niamh’s explanation, he nodded as if he was in deep thought.
Niamh saw a faint smile on Kendrick’s lips, and her heart started racing. It seemed as if the man did not believe her.
While she was pondering, Niamh heard Kendrick asking with a small smile.
“You’re pretty smart. So, does the man you love the most use your birthday as his password as well?”
“…Yes, that’s why I had that idea,” Niamh continued to explain while continuing the topic.
Kendrick nodded slightly. He turned on his computer and browsed around a little. “You’re not just smart. You even unlocked my inbox and took care of my urgent email.”
“It feels like a waste if I don’t hire you as my secretary,” Kendrick said as if he was feeling rueful. Suddenly, he walked over to Niamh and said, “Do you want to be my secretary? The kind who’s always around me no matter the time and place?”
“…”
Niamh felt as if she had never seen Kendrick like this before. He was saying this in such a serious manner and yet there was a frivolous smirk on his handsome face.
This should not be the expression he should have.
Niamh had nothing to say to that. However, Kendrick took one step closer to her.
His body towered over hers, and his aura that was like a shadow quickly enveloped Niamh.
Niamh sensed that something was amiss with Kendrick. She took a step back, but Kendrick suddenly grabbed her wrist.
“Are you declining my invitation?” There was a smile on his lips, and beneath his bottomless eyes, there was an unclear sense of sentiment.
Niamh tried to control herself and pretended to be calm. “Mr. Waldburg, you’re different from usual.”
“You can even sense that I’m different from usual. You pay a lot of attention to me indeed.”
“…”
Niamh felt as if she had fallen into some sort of trap after she heard that. However, Niamh’s reaction was quick. She was lucky that she was wearing a mask right now, so at least Kendrick could not see the changes in her expression.
Niamh smiled softly, and her eyes looked calm.
“I’m not paying a lot of attention to you, Mr. Waldburg. I mean, everyone out there knows you love your wife. In order to please your wife, you don’t even have a lot of contact with the opposite gender. If that’s the case, why would you want to hire a woman like me to stay by your side to be your secretary? Have you not considered Mrs. Waldburg’s feelings?”
“I have, so that’s why I made this decision.”
Kendrick said, suddenly grabbing Niamh’s wrist to pull her in front of him.”
“Including what happened between us last night, it’s all done with the consideration of the woman I love the most.”
“…”
Niamh widened her eyes in shock. She could feel that Kendrick was acting strangely when he said this.
Plus, what he said clearly proved that what happened last night was real and not a dream.
Niamh felt her face heating up horribly. She could not understand what Kendrick was talking about right now.
“Don’t worry. No one else will know about what happened last night.”
“…”
“No wonder you keep targeting my woman at home. It seems that you like me, Miss Quinny.” Kendrick smirked.
“I guess that makes sense as well, considering that your so-called boyfriend is pretty much useless. At least I’m much better than him.”
“…”
Niamh was speechless again. ‘What’s wrong with this man tonight?’
When she was trying to figure out what was going on, Kendrick continued in a mischievous tone.
“I want to keep this distance with Miss Quinny. Do you think this is doable? We can see each other and stay with each other all the time if you’re my secretary. Don’t you think this is ideal?”
When Niamh heard this, she felt a knot in her heart. ‘Kendrick, are you insane?
‘Are you trying to keep a woman who’s not your wife as a mistress?’
The more Niamh heard this, the more annoyed she felt. Niamh could not understand what Kendrick was saying and doing right now.
She knew she was not a stupid woman and she knew she understood Kendrick. However, at this moment, she was at a loss.
Kendrick’s smirk looked even more righteous and sinister after seeing Niamh’s hesitation and shock.
“You can’t come to a decision, huh, Miss Quinny? Then I shall make one for you.”
‘What?’
Niamh widened her crystal clear eyes, and for a moment, she could not understand what Kendrick just said.
However, while she was feeling confused, Kendrick suddenly grabbed her face. Through the thin layer of her mask, he leaned down and pressed his lips against Niamh’s features.
“…”
Niamh widened her eyes in shock. She had no words to describe how she was feeling now.
‘Kendrick, what’s wrong with you?’
Niamh thought she was pretty quick-witted, but at this moment, she could not see through Kendrick at all.
When she came back to her senses to push Kendrick away, she could feel his fingers landing on her ear. He wanted to take off her mask.
Niamh lifted her hand abruptly and grabbed his hand.
“Kendrick Waldburg.”
She was calling him by his full name.
Kendrick lifted his alluring eyes and looked into Niamh’s infuriated ones.
“Mr. Waldburg, don’t forget that you’re someone with a family,” Niamh reminded him.
“Of course, I know that.” Kendrick smirked, his expression still looking nonchalant and indifferent.
Niamh was even more confused now. “Since you know that, why do you want to have this relationship with me? Do you think you’re treating the woman you love fairly by doing this?”
She asked this, feeling offended. However, after she asked this, Niamh felt conflicted as well.
She was the person in his heart and also the person he was facing right now.
However, Kendrick had no idea about this. How could he flirt with her when he had no idea this was her?
Amidst the silence, Kendrick parted his lips slowly. “Of course, it’s because of a feeling.”
“Feeling?”
“Yeah.”
Kendrick answered lazily, his alluring eyes staring straight at Niamh.
“My feelings right now are telling me to get close to you. Don’t you feel the same too?”
“…”
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.