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.

him to take the

patiently until

stepped forward to

her a wary look, his expression unreadable. “What do you want

leg. We’ve wasted enough time. Let’s get started

to 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 it, made

was Emyr, after all–a man who had once been the

first instinct was to refuse, but when he looked into her eyes, he

the words he meant to say shifted as they reached his lips. “To the

“Great!”

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remark, not

really be that excited to help him?

wheeled himself toward the room, his movements steady, while

a small smile crept at

stool and placed it carefully in front of him, settling herself into it

ankle, but as her fingers brushed near

brow furrowed. “What are

principles of holistic medicine–‘look, listen, ask, and feel. To treat you properly, To treat you properly, I need to examine your

responded sharply. “Just do it. There’s no

Charmaine’s patience thinned.

haven’t seen enough of you already? Are you afraid I’ll take advantage of

out playfully, but in truth, she

and with

“Charmaine!”

the stool closer and decisively rolled up his pant

legs are so,

were long, slender, and well–defined, but the muscles beneath had clearly suffered from months of disuse