Semua Bab After Divorce, My Secretary Wife Becomes Rival Boss : Bab 11 - Bab 20

Charlotte’s POV Driving through the familiar streets of New York once again. It felt like it was just yesterday that I left this city for good. Barely anything has changed in the streets, but with what has happened to me in the past three years, it’s been quite a while. The memories I had made in this place came rushing back in, and instead of the positive emoji that usually accompanied them during the time I was still here, they were accompanied by negative emotions, one that acted as a fuel to what I had promised to accomplish the day I had nearly lost my life. I leaned my head backwards, enjoying the comfort of the leather seats used in this car. “Is anything the problem?” A familiar male voice came from beside me. I turned to face Sawyer, my date for tonight’s masked fundraiser gala, and simply offered him a smile. Before words could make their way past my lips, “No, nothing’s the issue… I guess I am just feeling… nostalgic,” I answered. “Are you sure?” Sawyer questione

Charlotte's POV The day for the meeting arrived faster than I thought it would. As it turned out, a meeting had been scheduled for a couple of days after my discussion with Reddington, and after our agreement, one he had no choice other than to agree to, he told me the date. All eyes were glued on me as I made my way inside and sat comfortably on one of the chairs with no regard for whether the chairs here were the exact number of the total board members—previous total. “May I know what you are doing here, Miss? This is a meeting for shareholders, and last time I checked, you weren't among them,” one of the shareholders whose name I had no interest in knowing when looking for the person to talk with said to me. “Well, there's a new addition to the collection, and it wouldn't hurt to welcome me to the board, would it?” I asked with a well-practiced and perfected smile plastered on my face. “I have no idea that there has been a new addition to the collection,” he replied with a sl

Drake's POV Three years. That's how long I had been in the shadows, monitoring the event of Watson Holdings and only interfering when I needed to. I made it hard to reach me; I was the only one who had the capability to reach my sister and tell her how she should run some certain things and what she needed to correct. Ah, at the beginning, my involvement had been too much, but over time it slowly reduced. She adapted and knew what to do and when to do it. I barely even communicated with her. How long has it been since she heard from me before the day before yesterday, huh? Two months? One month? I can't really remember; most of my focus had been on reflecting on myself and trying to pay for the sin I had done. Over the years, I tried to reduce the guilt that had overwhelmed me, but I can't really tell if I had done a good job. The last time a board meeting had been held was seventeen days ago, a little above two weeks. Another one had been scheduled to be held today. Fo

Charlotte's POV Waking up to the cloudy Monday morning did no good to me as it vividly reminded me of what had happened years ago. It was on a day like this that Drake told me he did not need me in his life. Funny enough, the cloud could not be questioned, and I could not help but stare at it with a bittersweet memory flowing through my head, but in the process, my phone chimed, and I picked it up without hesitation, only for the time to make me rise to my feet in a hurry. I was so late that I forgot why I picked the phone up. Shortly after, I took my bath and went about with my daily routine, and in an hour, I shut the door behind me and walked into the garage. “We should be halfway by now," My driver's gaze did not leave his wristwatch, and I could not help but press my lips together. As I slid into the car, a deep sigh escaped my lips like a balloon slowly deflating. "You know I'm not late on purpose, don't you?" I asked, raising an eyebrow and giving a pointed "Really?" lo

Drake’s POV I woke up to the sudden realization that even after my return from the shadows, my life is not the same as it was before I plunged into the shadows. I have no work to go to; my position as the CEO has been temporarily snatched away from me, and not only that, even the power I hold as the highest shareholder among the board members has been taken away from me. It’s all temporary and for a little time before I get back everything from her. But I still couldn’t shake off the question that troubled me: just what the hell happened in the three years that I have been away? I hadn’t noticed anything; I didn’t even keep my ears or eyes down for anything either. After I had been told that she was dead, I just accepted it and tried to move on with my life and deal with the guilt eating away at me. Even though her return was what I had desperately wished for, it wasn’t on the list of things I expected to happen at all. The takeover as the highest shareholder by someone e