“Hmph! My brother’s gone too far, Lory! He knows you’re here because of him, yet he’s tossed you aside and left without so much as a word. Why the hell should we even continue with this karaoke? Let’s go!”Miranda sulkily glared at Charlotte and dragged Lorraine away, leaving Charlotte all alone.‘I’m not leaving! I promised Zachary to wait for him to pick me up. So I’m going to stay here and wait for him.’The excitement and songs from next door served as a foil for her loneliness.Time passed slowly. Finally, after an unknown measure of time, someone pushed the door open.“Za—” Her voice immediately trailed off when she saw that it was Miranda. The joy in her eyes instantly turned to disappointment.Miranda stood by the door and stared at her with disdain.“What a joke. Zach’s abandoned you long ago, and you, his deserted wife, are still waiting for him like an idiot.”Charlotte lifted her face curtly.“Miranda, I know you don’t like me, and I’ve never once expected for anyt
“Wait here, Miranda.”She climbed up the wooden ladder as she spoke and poked her head out of the skylight. Suddenly, she felt as if she had been doused with a bucket of cold water. The smirk on the corners of her lips immediately froze in place.She had actually seen Zachary, and he wasn’t alone. The woman held tightly in his arms was most definitely Lorraine.Initially, she wondered if she had been imagining things. However, she focused her gaze and saw Zachary’s chiseled face underneath the sun, clear as day. There was no mistake!“Zach, I felt like the world’s luckiest woman when you told me you still loved me. I want to hear you say it again.”Lorraine, who lay the side of her face against Zachary’s chest, looked like she was drowning in bliss.The man’s thin lips gently nibbled against Lorraine’s ear.“Lory, I love you. It’s always been you.”“Zach…” Lorraine’s beautiful figure trembled while tears streamed down her face like pearls.“I love you too. My heart will always
Charlotte returned to the karaoke room.Charlotte sat on the loveseat that she had shared with Zachary. She had been consumed with thoughts of Zachary when she waited for him here, and her heart was filled with warmth.Now, this room felt more like an ice cave. Every pore in her body was screaming from the chill.“Lory, I love you. It’s always been you.“I will continue this nominal marriage with her. Lory, as long as our hearts are one, no one can tear us apart.”Zachary’s voice reverberated in her ears like a spell. That kiss he shared with Lorraine felt like a poisonous dart to her heart. Her heart ached every time she thought of it, and her body trembled.However, she was determined to wait for Zachary here!Zachary had told her to wait for him here, so he would come back to her.She was going to ask him, personally, once he returned—he clearly still loved Lorraine, so why was he still lying to her and making her think that he was determined to break it off with Lorraine?
“Must be nice to be rich. You can afford a luxury car, comfortable interior, more than enough space…”The girl forcefully pulled on the man’s arm, “Let’s go home and continue that dream then. You’ll never be able to afford the tires off that car with your pay.”“Sigh…” The man stared pointedly at the intertwined figures in the car. His eyes filled with envy.“Hmph! You men are all alike. You just can’t stop staring at beautiful women. If you don’t leave now, you can forget about coming home!” The girl pushed the man away and left in a huff.The man reluctantly tore himself away from the scene in the vehicle and ran after the girl. “Mary, I was just enjoying the show. Don’t be angry…”Based on the couple’s conversation, Charlotte knew that someone was getting busy in the car parked in lot number 17. Usually, she wouldn’t miss out on such an entertaining show. However, she wasn’t in a good mood at this point, so she did not peer inside the car at all. Instead, she headed toward he
The corner of Lorraine’s lips curled up as a hint of profundity that did not match her innocence crossed her alluring eyes. “I will tell and apologize to Zachary myself about this in the future. For now, you have to keep it a secret.”Miranda chuckled. “Don’t worry. I know my brother better than you do. I wouldn’t risk my neck to lie to my brother if I had the choice. I just hope that he never learns the truth.”Zachary was the person who doted on her the most in this world.The thing he hated the most was that the people he cared about lied to him. Therefore, Miranda had silently vowed that she would never deceive or tell him any lie no matter what happened.‘Zach, please forgive me this time. That slut Charlotte Simmons doesn’t deserve you. Everything I do is for your own good!’Lorraine went back into the car, and a clear voice erupted from the back. “You’re playing with fire. Once Zachary finds out everything you did behind his back, you’re screwed.”Lorraine gave a dry smile
Charlotte cracked her eyes open, and Garrison’s handsome face rammed into her vision.Garrison was standing in front of the bed. He looked at her fondly and said, “Well, you were driving against traffic on a one-way street yesterday afternoon, and we crashed into each other. My personal doctor was with me at that time, and since your injuries were not serious, he said that there was no need to send you to the hospital. After he tended to your head injury, I carried you back to my home to rest since you were still unconscious.”It was only now Charlotte remembered the scene of her car accident after she heard what Garrison had said.‘Hold on a second!’Charlotte looked around the room in a panic.“You just said I had an accident yesterday afternoon, so how long was I out!?”Garrison lifted his arm to look at his watch and then replied, “To be precise, you have been sleeping on my bed for 15 hours and 6 minutes. It’s 7:02 a.m. in the morning now.”‘Oh my good lord!’Charlotte’s f
Charlotte looked toward Zachary.He was wearing a black suit, and he looked as regal and perfect as always. Even in her current circumstances, she still could not help but stare at him blankly when she saw his handsome face.Then, in the next second, she snorted with disdain.Zachary—he was nothing but a monster draped in a beautiful shell to seduce people.Aloof? Uninterested in women? A man of principle? B*llshit! He was a sc*mb*g who clung to his old lover!“Get out of the car.” Zachary hissed, freezing Charlotte to the core.If it were in the past, Zachary would have owed her to obedience, but this time, she was going to stand up for herself and say no to him.“I’m not getting out of the car. I’m staying in the car. What can you do to me? Threaten to destroy my family like you used to do in the past?”Zachary did not threaten her. Instead, the darkness in his eyes grew even deeper, and his voice grimmer. “I’m not going to repeat myself again. Get out of the car.”Yet, desp
‘D*mn it! What the hell is wrong with you, Zachary Connor!? How can you lose it? She hadn’t said she had slept with another man yet. Just pull yourself together!’“Ahem!” Zachary cleared his throat. By the time he talked again, he had returned to his usual taciturn and cool-headed self, his gaze cold.“Skip the details. You just need to tell me, did you cheat on me or not?”Charlotte was stunned. She wanted to explain for herself, but the word “cheat” in Zachary’s mouth felt like a pinch of salt that sprinkled on the wound in her heart. Those scenes of Zachary and Lorraine “cheating” on her in the car burst forth like a breaching dyke and flooded her head.All of a sudden, her fear left her. There was only sadness, jealousy, and a trace of unfounded rage—as if someone she loved deeply had cheated on her—twinning and twisting like the tentacles of an octopus that sucked the reason from her brain.She raised her head, looking straight into Zachary’s cold eyes that reminded her of th