Walker placed his hands on top of his desk and leaned forward. He had been keeping this in his mind for a long time, but he was pushed to tell her. He could not have her married to someone else when he wanted her. "I have known you since you were sixteen”. "Pardon?” Charlotte felt like she couldn't hear properly. He had surprised her twice this morning. First, he had asked her to divorce Dalton and now, he was telling her that he knew her when she was sixteen. "Yeah,” Walker nodded his head, “Not even when you're sixteen. I knew you before you turned sixteen, but we officially met on your sixteenth birthday.” Charlotte's brow furrowed in deep thoughts at his words. They met when she was sixteen? She could not remember ever meeting him. Hell, she could not even remember anything that had ever happened to her in her younger days. The only memories she had left were of when Amarie showed up at her father's mansion with Bethany in tow. She believed that because it was a deep scar o
“What on Earth were the both of you thinking when you went to Charlotte's working place to cause trouble?” Hughes yelled in anger as he swept everything from his study desk to the floor. Amarie flinched back in fear. She has always been able to manipulate Hughes and his family, but one thing she knows for sure is that he won't hesitate to push them aside if it means making more money. He would pick money over both she and Bethany. “We were not causing trouble. You don't know everything that happened. Charlotte was the one feeling so big because she got married into the Moore's family, and she also insulted mother. We were just paying her a friendly visit since we can't go to her house. We wanted to eat with her and get to know if she and Dalton's relationship is progressing alright,” Bethany briefly explained. She had never seen her father this angry before. He has never raised his voice at her, and it was all her faults that he was angry with her.If she had listened to her mother
“Oh, I see that the first young Miss of the Enfield's family was scolded and fired this morning for bringing her family's shit to her place of work. Are you going to be doing the walk of shame today?” Angela asked, drawing the name; first young Miss of the Enfield's family as she popped the gum in her mouth.Charlotte rolled her eyes as she resumed walking to her desk. She wondered the expression on her face that must have given away that she was scolded or fired. Now Angela knew her father's name and was addressing her with it, albeit sarcastically. Once she left her father and began to attend college and then started working, she stopped using his name and adopted her mother's maiden name; Cooper.“What? Do you need my help with packing your things?” Angela asked as she propped herself on Charlotte's desk.Charlotte ignored her sarcasm and powered on her computer, “I don't have your time, Angela and no, I don't need your help with packing” Charlotte was right to think that Angela w
Charlotte's heart was beating fast, and her palms were sweaty as the hospital building appeared in her line of sight. She seemed to have forgotten when she woke up this morning that her mother had developed the habit of watching the news and staying current since she got admitted to the hospital. Her mother would even find out what happened before Dalton did. She was sure that her mother waited for her to close from work before calling. Charlotte felt like a sheep to the slaughter as she walked into the hospital and in the direction of the elevator, this would take her to the floor where her mother's room was located. She was grateful that she had eaten. If not, she was so sure that she would have immediately fainted after receiving her mother's call. Her palms were clammy and sweaty as she drew close to her mother's room.Charlotte hesitated when she got to the door, and she could not bring herself to push the door open with her hands, which were suddenly too heavy. She could feel
Charlotte's words were cut off as she heard her mother burst into loud sobs that made her heart stop beating in her chest for a second and when it started beating again, it was very fast.Charlotte immediately let go of her work back to hug her mother, "Mom, please don't cry," as she said these words, she too felt her eyes clouding with tears.One of the reasons she never wanted to tell her mother that she got married even when she knew that she would eventually have too. Charlotte knew that her mother would feel guilty. Her mother would feel like she ruined Charlotte's life because she was sick and couldn't afford her treatment."I'm so sorry Charlotte, it's all my fault. If only I was a good mother, if only I didn't fall sick all this wouldn't have happened. You wouldn't have had to get married to a man you don't know or like, I'm so sorry." Emily said amidst sobsThe tears immediately began to drop down Charlotte's face at her mother's words. She opened her mouth to stop her mother
“How was your day at work today?” Charlotte jumped on one foot, nearly screaming in shock as she spun around and came face to face with Dalton. She swallowed thickly before responding, “I have had better days,” Was it her eyes playing tricks on her, or did his eyes soften at her words?“Right, you are not going to fall sick, right?” He asked as he wheeled himself inside the room.She shook her head, “No, of course not”“Good. Do you have anything you want to tell me?” He asked with his gaze fixed on her.Charlotte shook her head again. When she got home, he was still at work, but she thought that she would meet her luggage outside or be stopped from entering the house, nothing like that happened. Though, the servants all gave her the same looks like the one she was given at work, anytime she caught them staring they would immediately turn away. The only person who behaved like she normally did was Mrs. Brittany. Charlotte half expected Dalton to be waiting for her in the room with
She even enjoyed the kiss. Charlotte brought her hand up to touch her swollen lips before sliding down to the floor as a foreign feeling enveloped her. She snapped back to her senses in the next minute.This was not supposed to be happening. She was not supposed to be waking up in his arms, nor was he supposed to be kissing this morning.There was no way neither him nor his family has not seen the news. If not, why did he question her last night if she was okay and if she had something to tell him?Charlotte stood back up from the floor before she began to pace around in the bathroom. What was Dalton's plan? Was he going to pretend like he didn't see the news and continue being her husband? Was it all for a show, so it wouldn't be like her family played his? Charlotte was in the bathroom, just pacing about for a long time, trying to come up with an explanation for Dalton's behavior. In the end, she couldn't come up with anything.Bethany was supposed to be his fiancé so of course he
“No, I don't have anything to say” Charlotte kept cursing herself all the way to her place of work. She should have just told him to clear the air, but she was too much of a chicken and could not bring herself to do so.Like yesterday and all the other days she had been gossiped about, every eye was on her. This morning, on her way to work, she was scared that the paparazzi would have found out where she worked and would be waiting for her, but she thought wrong. Looked like they were not really taking this news seriously, but she thought that something or someone else might have stopped them from coming.She hated Angela's eyes that were following her around, the snarky remarks sent her way, and also the looks Walker kept throwing her way. Walker warned everyone to stay away from her and if anything about her family was discussed, that group of people would be fired. It came as a shock to her, but she was grateful and did not hold back in thanking him.Charlotte went straight to th