Mr. CEO's Substitute Bride-Chapter 966 - 962: Two Hundred Yuan Labor Fee
Watching Sophie Foster take out two hundred from her wallet, Nicholas Croft paused his action of smoking. Just as he was puzzled, those two red banknotes were presented in front of him. Sophie, with a slightly shy smile, said, "Um, your skills are quite good, made me feel really comfortable... this two hundred is your tip. I know that with your skills, it should actually be more..."
Looking at the money handed to him, Nicholas took a drag of his cigarette, playfully blowing out the smoke, "Why shouldn’t I be the one tipping you?"
Sophie scratched her head while holding onto her backpack strap, "That wouldn’t be the same. If I took your money, the nature of it would change."
"Why?" Nicholas looked at Sophie with a half-smile, and she hung her backpack on her shoulder, meeting his gaze seriously, "I don’t sell myself."
"Then what would you call last night?" Nicholas leisurely exhaled smoke, seemingly enjoying teasing Sophie.
Puffing up her cheeks and blowing out a breath, Sophie looked somewhere, "Let’s call it a one-night stand."
"Do you often engage in this with men?"
Sophie...
She turned her eyes to meet Nicholas’s half-smiling gaze, blinked in a moment of daze, then shyly smiled and said, "Not often, just sometimes,"
She stuck out her tongue after speaking, and to make her words more convincing, she deliberately asked, "Handsome uncle, didn’t you feel there was a barrier last night? I specifically went to the hospital for it."
"Mm," a soft laugh, Nicholas responded lightly, curious about what’s going on in this little kitten’s head, wondering why she just wouldn’t admit it was her first time.
"How was it? Was it exciting, thrilling?" Sophie plopped down on the bed, leaned closer to Nicholas with wide eyes, and he smiled helplessly, cupping her head and pressing it against his forehead, saying, "You little thing, why are you so cute!"
Cute enough to make him want to tie her to his belt and carry her around every day.
"Hehehe... a lot of people say that about me." Sophie giggled cleverly, and when Nicholas let her go, she put the two hundred she had in hand on the pillow next to him, stood up, and took a step back. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺
"Handsome uncle, I have to go, or I’ll be late."
"Where do you work?" He used to think she was doing work-study, but now it doesn’t seem so.
"That’s a secret." Sophie smiled slyly, taking two steps back while waving her hand at Nicholas.
He beckoned her over with his finger, then pointed to the side of his face. Sophie understood and leaned in again to peck Nicholas on the cheek. As she was about to pull away, he caught the back of her head.
Pressing his thin lips down, he captured her lips, giving them a tender kiss before letting her go, "Off you go."
Sophie covered the lips that Nicholas had kissed, an evident shyness in her eyebrows, waved at him while retreating, and still covered her lips as she turned to leave the suite.
"Little thing!"
Nicholas muttered to himself, pressing the cigarette between his fingers into the ashtray. Just as he was about to lie down for a nap, the two hundred on the pillow beside him caught his eye.
He picked up the two banknotes, playing with them absentmindedly and occasionally sniffing at them, noting they were a service fee given by the little kitten, intending to keep them well.
He placed the money on the bedside cabinet, using a cigarette box to weigh it down. With a lingering curve at the corners of his lips, he pulled the thin quilt over and prepared to lie down again. On the bedsheet, spots of bright red came into view.
He lifted the thin quilt to the side, his long fingers brushing over each red stain. Nicholas’s smile grew wider, showing no trace of disdain.
