Chapter 881

In the next instant, a large pair of hands gripped Caroline's wrists. The coldness they brought frightened her.

The mask fell back lightly onto Kirk's face.

Caroline withdrew her hand and stared at him anxiously.

"You weren't asleep?" she asked.

"No, it's not that." Kirk straightened his back and put some distance between them.

Despite his efforts to appear indifferent, she still managed to sense that there was something off about him.

"How did you know that someone was close then?"

Under the mask, Kirk's eyes met Caroline's briefly. She gave off a faint scent. He never failed to recognize it when she approached him.

At first, he had assumed that it was his imagination because he missed her too much. It was only when her hand had touched his mask that he had snapped wide awake.

"How did you come out here?" Kirk tried to divert her attention from the topic.

"I …" Caroline faltered. She was unable to come up with an answer when she noticed that he was trying to distan