Chapter 10
Ashley’s offer caught Koi completely off guard.
“What?”
At first, he thought he had misheard. Blinking, he looked up, only to see Ashley smiling in that usual way of his.
“I said I’ll help. Where should we start? Cleaning?”
“W-What? Why?”
This time, he had definitely heard correctly. But Koi still couldn’t believe his own ears. Ashley Miller was offering to help him clean? All of a sudden? Why? For what reason?
There has to be some kind of ulterior motive.
His first instinct was suspicion, but even that didn’t quite make sense. Someone only acted like this when they had something to gain. Ashley Miller had absolutely nothing to gain from Koi Niles.
Even the dust in my house is probably more useful than I am to him.
Adding a self-deprecating joke in his head, Koi barely stopped himself from laughing bitterly and instead looked at Ashley with a serious expression. He still couldn’t let his guard down. Even if there was nothing for Ashley to gain, believing that he was being kind for no reason was even harder.
“I don’t believe in kindness without reason.”
His voice was laced with wariness. Slowly, Ashley’s smile faded. The two of them stared at each other in silence for a moment.