Divorce Time

Chapter 177

Thorne barely glanced up from his phone when he heard her, muttering a distracted, “Sure”

Seeing him agree, Charlene felt a wave of relief wash over her.

Irma had been chatting with the butler, missing the exchange entirely, but the sight of them talking brought a warm smile to her face.

After dinner, Irma had someone bring Charlene her medicine.

Thorne excused himself from the dining room to make a call.

Charlene, having finished her medicine, was just stepping out of the dining room when the sound of a car engine caught her attention.

“Did he leave?” she wondered aloud.

Irma huffed, clearly annoyed, “Yes, off in such a hurry. Who knows what he’s up to.”

Charlene frowned, suspecting he might be off to Neural Nexus Tech to help Vesta again, despite his promise to

chat with her later.

She hoped he would return that evening. But Thorne didn’t come back.

were hectic over at Neural

Charlene and Stewart headed straight to the Neural Nexus Tech entrance to meet

and her team were already there when they arrived.

an eyebrow,

early.

had to get an early start to keep up with the

didn’t bother commenting further, and Charlene focused on her

was about to head to the restroom, Thorne appeared. This time, it didn’t seem

greeting with Vesta

he headed their

“Mr. Henderson, what brings

responded, “I took some time to review the system you’ve been working on. It looks impressive, but I have some ideas I’d like to

who excused herself, “Sorry, I need to run to the restroom. You guys start without

me.”

were exchanged, and

back to Thorne and Stewart when a sharp cry of “Director Hawkins” echoed from the conference room, followed by a

expression darkened, and he rushed towards the conference room. He brushed past her so forcefully that Charlene nearly stumbled, her

Charlene shook her head, “I’m fine.”

Thorne emerge from the conference room, supporting a woozy

asked, “What happened to Director