Regret Novel 174

Chapter 174

Pick her up?

Charlotte frowned in confusion. Had he lost his mind today?

She hesitated to answer, and his voice on the phone dropped, low and insistent. “You don’t want to?”

There was no point arguing with him.

“I’m at the Market Street intersection.”

Evander grunted in acknowledgment and hung up.

Charlotte waited by the bus stop at the corner of Market Street for only a few minutes before that familiar car glided to a stop along the curb, beside the manicured hedges.

She got in, buckled her seatbelt without a word. Evander’s gaze lingered on her, unreadable as ever. “Are you feeling okay?”

Her hands paused for a beat, but her expression didn’t change. “I’m fine. I already took my medicine.”

Evander frowned but said nothing.

Suddenly remembering what was ahead, Charlotte turned to him. “Should I change clothes?”

Tonight’s event was bound to be a little formal.

pinched the bridge of his nose.

She didn’t ask again.

most renowned and lavish

minimum rental for this banquet space was close to ninety thousand dollars a night–and even if you had the money, booking it

a palace, all marble columns and gilded balustrades, breathtaking in its

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socialites and dignitaries approached to greet him–local officials, medical association board members, distinguished professors and

of them looked familiar to

Dr. Sterling from neurosurgery? Here with Mr. Howard,

a polite nod and smiled. “Mr. Howard gave

then took a glass

with the professor for a bit and was about to raise her glass for a toast when Evander, face dark, abruptly took her wine away.

best she doesn’t drink.”

exchanged surprised

stunned for several seconds before regaining

glass to a server

water instead.

along, smiling. “Dr. Sterling, if you’re

her gaze on Evander’s calm, impassive face, utterly

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