Divorce Time

Chapter 263

After hanging up the call, Henley set his phone down with a sigh.

He rubbed his temples, feeling a headache coming on as he watched the PrimeStar investors‘ conference video playing on the large screen in his living room.

Leah was lounging on the couch, casually munching on an apple. Watching Charlene up there, confidently delivering her speech at such an important event, left a sour taste in her mouth. She switched off the TV with a frown. “Why did they let her take the stage? She’s stealing all the spotlight,”

Maureen chimed in, “That’s not the point.”

In Maureen’s eyes, Charlene might have shone a bit by association with Stewart during the conference, but it was all superficial. The real treasure was PrimeStar’s technology.

That’s what truly mattered.

Henley caught on to what Maureen was implying.

Sure, Charlene had done well with her speech, but when it came to the technical aspects of PrimeStar, both Vesta and he, along with Maureen, believed that Stewart had prepped her in advance. Charlene couldn’t possibly grasp all that on her own.

Rhoda, however, pointed out, “But she’s definitely got Stewart on her side.”

No matter how you looked at it, Charlene had basked in the glory today and even managed to lend a hand to the Ross family. To Rhoda, that was quite impressive.

Leah’s concerns were different, though.

from the audience. His gaze was intense, focused. Granger had never looked at her like that. She felt that if she were the one on stage, it would

and Stewart left the hotel, it was nearly ten at night.

day, Charlene was

to her usual apartment complex instead of the

out of habit. It was late, and she had no intention

she glanced at her phone, scrolling through her missed messages and calls. Both the Ross family and Jasmine

eight, asking when

through the messages, then tucked her

she took a shower and promptly collapsed into

The next morning.

sooner had she woken up

not wanting to

silent, the landline

Charlene picked up.

you didn’t come home last

I was too busy to make

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hearing how busy she was, felt a pang of sympathy and handed