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Chapter 339

Author: Walking on Clouds
"I can't, Mom," Shayne answered in a pained voice.

Seeing that Charlotte couldn't come up with a suitable solution to his problem, he said, "You can go back now. I want to calm down for a bit."

"You're a grown man. How can you let a woman make you this miserable?" Charlotte scolded him angrily.

Shayne grew even more frustrated. "I love her. I don't know when I started loving her. But from the day I realized it, I've been unable to live without her."

"As long as you're willing to work at it, you'll forget about her eventually."

Shayne didn't want to hear Charlotte continue to criticize him. "I have work to do, Mom."

It was obvious that he was trying to get her to leave. Charlotte realized that Shayne didn't want to hear her nag and said, "I'm saying this for your own good."

"No need," Shayne decisively responded. "I want to be alone."

Charlotte scolded him again, calling him hopeless. When she saw that he truly didn't want to talk, she left reluctantly.

Shayne sat alone in the
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