Steal my heart novel (Grace James and Caden Shaw)

Kern Lo looked inscrutable and nodded with smile, "Any room for me tonight?"

"Sure! We have vacant rooms." Carol worked in the inn to welcome and bid farewell to numerous guests, but this was her first time to meet such a good-looking guy of mysterious feature.

Kern followed Carol to the lobby. He could see the clean windows of the inn all the way. Standing in front of the reception, he also got the view of the yard as well as some of the further Erhai Lake through a glass folding door.

Right now, he noticed a bamboo recliner on the corridor of yard; soon he shifted his eye contact.

Carol introduced to him, "Sir, we have an agreement for you before check-in. Could you please read it and sign?" She never knew the reasons to make such a weird agreement with guests. Yet she had to do as the owner told and there was not exception since she started to work here.

If guests wanted to live in, they had to sign the agreement.

Kern got it and seemed to be curious...he neither heard about the rule that guests would make an agreement with some other hotels or inns.

Anyway, it did not matter. He read through it and came to realize that, why the young couple in the recent news was ordered to leave here by the owner.

Carol was a little bit nervous to watch Kern who was extremely handsome! She even worried about what to do if he refused to sign the agreement.

In her eyes, this was a bossy man coming out of some love dramas.

But now she heard Kern talking, "Do you have a pen?"

Carol was so happy to give him a pen, "Oh...of course."

Soon, Kern signed his name on the paper.

Waiting for check-in, he looked at the outside recliner in the corridor of yard; it was swinging by the wind. Then he smiled faintly.

Carol asked, "Sir, what are you looking at?"

"There is stunning view, and a lovely recliner. May I use it? It is interesting."

"Oh, the recliner. Sorry, you cannot. This is for the owner. She usually has a nap under the sun around noontime." Carol was too honest to hide anything in her mind.

Kern seemed not to be angry about this, just answered, "I see." But he felt some of pity and went on to say, "It belongs to the owner. I cannot try it." Then he and his sharp-short-hair assistant went to the stairs with their luggage.

They would live in the rooms on the second floor. In the afternoon, Kern finished a shower to be in a clean causal wear and stood beside the room window, watching the recliner downstairs.

His assistant said, "Boss..."

"Chester, I told you not to call me boss here."

"What may I call you instead?"

"Call my name."

Kern was talking with the assistant but kept his eyes on the recliner. Here he could see some of the one lying on it.

All of sudden, Grace moved up slowly from the recliner. Kern stood behind the curtain and had a look at his watch to say, "Chester, go to buy something to eat. I will not have dinner downstairs tonight." He should have something else to do without going down.

Now there was nobody on the recliner.

It was getting dark outside.

Grace, the owner of the inn, finished her meal and stepped slowly to the yard. As normal, she stopped in front of the glass door but looked at the swinging recliner. She wondered who used it, so she walked closely to it but became shocked.

There was a man on it.

And he was using her tea cup to enjoy some tea...nevertheless!

Kern turned around to her and had a gorgeous smile on his face. He said to her, "How are you...I am Kern Lo."☐☐