Divorce Time

Chapter 168

In the passenger seat of someone else’s car, Charlene managed to snatch a few moments of sleep, though it was far from restful.

Upon waking and noticing Granger pulling his hand back, she didn’t give it much thought and simply asked, “Are we there yet?”

“Almost.”

Two minutes later, the car pulled up at the hospital entrance. Granger, with Daisy in his arms, turned to Charlene and offered, “Want one of my guys to drive you back?”

Charlene shook her head, “No need, I’ll drive myself home.”

Granger didn’t press further.

As she was about to reach home, her phone buzzed with a text from Thorne: Grandma’s heading over to see Your grandma. Let’s all drop by the Ross residence together.

This was a text she couldn’t ignore.

Picking up her phone, she called Thorne back.

picked up

to pick up

she implicitly indicated she didn’t expect Thorne to accompany her to the Ross residence. After all, every time she had suggested he come with her in the past, he had always

wasn’t like her family was eager to

a brief silence on Thorne’s end before he finally said,

up, Charlene turned the car around and headed towards

Jasmine was already waiting, backpack slung over

to Thorne and averted her gaze, still miffed about being left out of

Charlene and paused, “Didn’t sleep well last night?”

him to ask. Perhaps her lack of makeup and

a noncommittal “Hmm,” not really wanting to get into details. Picking up on this, the butler chimed in helpfully, “Having trouble sleeping? We’ve got some great aromatherapy oils that could help. I’ll put some

sleep fine. It was just the camping last night. I’m not used to sleeping outdoors.”

Hope you didn’t catch a cold. That doesn’t sound fun at all.” Charlene chuckled, “Actually, winter camping is great. You can have snowball fights, build snowmen, and play

the other campers seemed to be having last

and gave her a thoughtful look. Jasmine, on the other hand, felt a pang of jealousy. Not only had her mom not coddled her

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