Upon noticing Kieran’s icy gaze, Shannon was so frightened that she stopped protesting immediately.

“Mr. Morgan, Lila was the one who pushed me! Aren’t you going to address that issue? Are you that biased toward her?”

She knew that she still stood a chance as long as Kieran displayed even the slightest hint of displeasure toward Lila.

However, he merely looked at Shannon coldly.

A moment later, he finally said impatiently, “You can let Cole know how much compensation you want.”

Shannon clenched her fists tightly. “Do I look like I’m in dire need of money?”

“Then, do I look like I’m in dire need of clothes?”

Kieran had already accepted the bag from Lila earlier. The moment his words fell, he hurled the bag to the bottom of the steps.

When he and Cole visited the Bolton Group that day, one of the interns had accidentally spilled coffee on his shirt. That was why he changed into a new shirt

on the spot.

Both of them completely forgot about the stained shirt when they left Bolton Group.

It was sometime later that Cole informed Kieran that he notified Shannon to throw the stained shirt away the moment she called to offer to return the shirt.

Unexpectedly, she still came to Evergreen Heights in the end. Not only that, but she also picked a fight with Lila.

Based on the impatience in Lila’s eyes, it was obvious that she was frustrated by the disturbance caused by Shannon.

Lila watched the way Shannon paled with disbelief and pain in her eyes. Clearly, Kieran had broken her heart for real this time.

Cole wanted to help Shannon out of the grounds, only to get shoved away. “You’ll regret treating me like this!” she shrieked at Kieran.

But Kieran never spared her a glance. Instead, he wrapped an arm around Lila’s waist before leading her back into the mansion. He didn’t even bother glancing at the bag of clothes left on the steps.

“And to think you claimed you’re doing fine.”

Kieran glanced at the bloodied scratch marring Lila’s wrist before grabbing some cleaning alcohol to disinfect the wound for her.

Lila cast a look at it. She did feel pain shooting from her wrist earlier, but Kieran and Cole had already arrived before she could take a look at it.

After that, she chose to explain the situation instead. She didn’t use that much strength in pushing Shannon, after all. So, she had no idea how Shannon fell down the steps.

Lila looked down at her feet, though she soon forgot all about the incident.

Even if Shannon did end up getting hurt from the fall, Lila’s actions were still classified as justifiable defense.

After that, Lila pulled out her phone and rebooted the game. This time, she reloaded enough money so that she could draw from the banner ten times in a row.

In the end, all she got was a useless SSR card.

Hmph! Her luck was affected by Shannon, that was for sure!

Thanks to her bad luck, Lila wasn’t in the mood to play the game anymore. Meanwhile, Cole carried two plastic bags into the mansion. They looked quite heavy, so Lila rose to her feet and lent him a helping hand.

“Oh no, it’s fine. I’ll just put these bags in the kitchen.”

She was about to retract her hand

when the thing in one of the bags suddenly squirmed. It scared her so much that she shuddered

instantly.

Kieran couldn’t help but smile when he noticed Lila’s frightened look.

“I bought a fish. Since there were quite a lot of people at the market, I decided to personally kill it at home.”

Lila nodded in response. He knew that Kieran was an amazing cook.

Geniuses would always be geniuses regardless of what they did. But to think that Kieran would be the one killing the fish…

“Is the helper not coming today? Are you going to kill it yourself?”

Kieran had already tied the apron around his waist skillfully as he listened to Lila’s questions. Cole did the same thing.

Lila felt a little embarrassed. “I should help out too.”

“All you have to do is get as hungry as possible. If you’re able to polish off the

food later, you’ll be doing me a huge favor.”

Kieran’s tone was laced with a hint of amusement.

Lila really wanted to help, but the fact that she was a culinary idiot still stood. After spending a few more moments screwing everything up, she decided to leave the kitchen to the other two men.

After that, she returned to the living room and continued playing her game.

About ten minutes later, she received a text message from Terry.

“Are you free tomorrow?”