Emily quickly came to terms with the fact that her daughter was married, causing Charlotte to be surprised. Emily was always asking how Dalton was and if their relationship was improving.Charlotte thought at first that it was because her mother was worried about her, but with time she began to think it was something else. Something she was unaware of because her mother always wanted to know everything to the tiniest details: if Dalton smiled at her or not, and even how wide the smile was if he did.Charlotte had explained to her mother that he wore a mask, and she had never asked him to take it off. She was already on her way home the day she met up with his mother when she remembered that she hadn't asked Sarah about the severity of the injury on Dalton's face.She decided to ask Graham about it. He just looked at her for a while, and in those few seconds she could see that he was thinking of the right answer to give her. In the end, he did not give her any reasonable answer.Simila
Dalton has taken his mask off. Charlotte went into a coughing fit, slapping her hands on her chest as she tried to get the coffee out of the wrong channel. By the time she calmed down, her eyes were red, teary and bulging out, while her nose was runny.“Haaaa,” with a sigh, Charlotte raised her head to look at Dalton. He was sitting there calmly like he had not just seen her go into a coughing fits or like he wasn't the cause of it.Charlotte swallowed thickly, who said Dalton has a scar on his face? Holy shit! His face was milky white and clear of any injury, and as handsome as it was in the frame hanging on his office wall. It made her surprised as to why he was wearing a mask. The reason people must have thought he was scarred was because he was wearing a mask, she was so sure of it.“What do you think? Do you like what you see, wife?” Dalton asked after giving her a few seconds to admire his face.Charlotte, who was lost in her thoughts, found herself nodding but when she saw the
“Dalton might have stopped them from saying anything, and I'm sure he was also the one that suppressed the news”The words her mother told her kept ringing in her head as she left for home on Sunday night. After her and her mother's talk, she realized just how foolish she was again. Though she hated to admit it, her mother was right, these days, she was acting just as foolish as her father.“You are home late, wife,” Dalton said immediately as she entered their shared room. He was already on the bed and Charlotte knew that he was half asleep because of how deep his voice was and how sleepy his eyes were, the noise of her coming in must have aroused him.“My name is Charlotte,” she rolled her eyes at him before going inside their walk-in closet to take off her clothes and wrap a towel around her chest. She grabbed her pajamas and walked out.Dalton was laying on his back, now fully awake when she return to the room, “You never complained before about being called wife so what’s wrong t
“What do you want again, Collins? For goodness’s sake, I just sent you money yesterday?” Amarie had a distraught expression on her face and had her hand running through her hair repeatedly as she paced from one end of her shared room with Hughes to the other.She felt like her head was being banged on. It was so heavy, she wanted to hold it, move to lay on the bed and go to sleep forever. She wished she wouldn't wake up, so she would've had to deal with what she was dealing with right now: Collins calling to ask for more money. He was becoming greedy with each passing day, she was fed up already. Collins snorted, “So what if you sent me money yesterday? I need more money today and like the good and lovely wife of a rich man that you are, you would find the money and send it to me”“And where do I get the money from?” Amarie thundered as anger took the place of frustration that has been boiling in her heart since she picked his call. He'd called her more than fifteen times, and she ha
He'd asked her on the night of the day that the news went viral if she had anything she wanted to say to him, and she said she had nothing to tell him. She was stupid.“You saw the news, why didn't you say anything to me?”“Was I supposed to say something to you? You were the one who was supposed to report such things about your family fighting you to your husband. I asked you that night if you had something to say, and you said no.” Dalton told her with a small shrug.Charlotte's breath caught in her throat, this was not how she envisioned their discussion to go. She'd hoped that he hadn't known about the news, that he would be surprised, then he would get angry and throw her out. Not that she was wishing herself bad luck, but it was just the right thing for him to do: throw her out. “Since I didn't say anything to you, why didn't you say anything?” She really wanted to know why he did not say anything to her. Surely, he must have his reasons.“You did not report it to me, so I thou
“You wanted to see my medical records the other day, huh? Why haven't you asked me for it, since you have suddenly become so nosy about my business?” So Graham told him about it? If his personal assistant told him about it, then why has he not asked her why she wanted to see his medical records before today. “Yeah, I asked Graham about it, and he asked me to meet you for it. I don't know if it's because he is loyal or if it's because he doesn't want your anger directed at him.” or he does not see me as your real wife because of the rumors flying around, Charlotte held herself back from adding that part. “Why didn't you ask me for it then?”She turned to face him, he was looking forward and did not even spare her a glance. She knew that he was aware of her eyes on him. “Well, I'm asking now, am I not?”“My mom didn't show it to you?”Charlotte's breath caught in her throat, especially at how cold his voice sounded. None of the warmth she had grown used to these past few weeks was c
“My mom's house,” Charlotte told Peter as she slid into the car. She had not planned on visiting her mother again until the weekend, but she needed answers to the questions that plagued her mind throughout the night. She'd had troubles with concentrating on her job for the day and ended up making different mistakes: from messing up files, picking out the wrong documents for meetings and putting too much sugar in Walker's coffee. Even Walker had noticed and asked her what the problem was. “Are you sure you are okay? You keep staring into space. What are you thinking about?” Walker asked after she snapped out of her thoughts. He had called her three times before finally getting a response from her.Charlotte shook her head, “Nothing sir,”“It doesn't look like nothing to me. I have had to call you multiple times before getting a response from you,” he paused and cocked his head to the side to observe her, "Is it your husband?”“What? No,” She nearly snapped. Charlotte was shocked that
“The accident Charlotte” Charlotte was quiet for a while as she thought about her mother's words: the accident. Her brows furrowed in a deep frown when she remembered the accident her mother was talking about. She could remember that it happened when she was much younger. It happened when she was six years old, “What about the accident?”Emily sighed as she sat up straight, “You lost your memory that night Charlotte, and it was also the day your grandfather died and Dalton left for to study in America,”At the mention of her grandfather, who she could not really remember dying on the day of her accident, Charlotte suddenly felt sick to her stomach as a certain thought occurred to her, "You and dad said grandfather died because he was sick”“No Charlotte, he wasn't sick,” Emily gasped and slapped her hand on her mouth after the words left.“He wasn't sick? Then how did he die?” She grew up with people who always avoid talking about her grandfather in front of her. Her mother's reactio