Chapter 95

Karl stomped his right foot as soon as he sat down in his chair, cursing Stephen for preferring to get out of the man's study alone and leave him and Nikki there. Again and again, he snorted in frustration. He wanted to throw his best friend with his shoes if he didn't remember that the shoes he was wearing had just been made yesterday.

His attention then turned to Nikki who returned to focus on the report he showed Nikki. Even though he was one hundred per cent certain that she was actually harbouring the same irritation towards Stephen, she was far more successful at not showing it on the woman's cute face when responding to Stephen's attitude. In fact, she had managed to do something she had never seen in any of the other women who had approached Stephen or been around Stephen at all: responded to his argument in a confident tone.

In fact, he was willing to bet that Stephen was as surprised as he was. He must also not have expected that the young human woman named