My Reborn Story Is Insane (Back to My Worst Birthday and Starting Anew)

Back to My Worst Birthday and Starting Anew

Chapter 49 Aloof Guy

Emyr’s gaze lingered on her so–called innocent face. “You’re not fooling anyone.”

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Charmaine cleared her throat, her voice deliberately casual. “With me here, Mr. Emyr, you don’t need anyone else to take care of your leg. I can handle it. Trust me–I’m practically a miracle worker.”

His laugh was short and cutting, his tone as cold as winter wind. “If I left it to you, I’d end up in a coffin. You’d probably have to crawl in after me just to keep paying for your mistakes.”

Charmaine stared at him, momentarily stunned. “Excuse me?”

That one hit hard.

This man had a tongue like a razor, sharp enough to slice through stone.

Even Tad, seated up front, couldn’t hide his shock.

He had long known that Emyr’s words could be lethal, especially when his mood darkened. But this?

To suggest Ms. Nelson would accompany him to the grave?

It almost felt like there was something more beneath those words.

If Charmaine had the faintest idea what Tad was thinking, her temper would have ignited like dry kindling.

When they returned to the villa, Charmaine’s phone buzzed with a new message. Rex had sent her a screenshot.

Emyr had placed a bounty of 300 million dollars to retrieve the missing surveillance footage.

Charmaine stared at the amount, her lips curving into a dry smile. She recalled how Jonah had once offered a mere hundred million to secure Leah a kidney. Compared to this, that offer seemed laughable.

instructing him to take the job and

patiently until Emyr

forward

his expression unreadable. “What do

leg. We’ve wasted

wait until his condition worsened, thinking it would be easier to act then. But seeing how much he cared, even as he tried to hide

who had once been the epitome of confidence and

refuse, but when he looked into her eyes, he hesitated. There

say shifted as they reached his lips.

“Great!”

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scathing remark, not a reluctant agreement. Her smile widened, lighting up

really be that excited to help him?

steady, while Charmaine’s footsteps trailed behind,

him, a small smile crept at the edge of his lips.

a small stool and placed it carefully in front of him, settling

but as her fingers brushed near it, the

furrowed. “What are you

kept her voice calm, though a hint of amusement lingered in her tone. “I’m following the principles of holistic medicine–‘look, listen, ask,

“Just do it. There’s

Charmaine’s patience thinned.

you

truth,

had shared a deeply intimate moment, that night had been dark, and

“Charmaine!”

stool closer and decisively rolled

are so, so fair…

the muscles beneath had clearly suffered from months of disuse in the