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.

Rex, instructing him to take the

night deepened, Charmaine waited patiently until Emyr emerged from his

stepped forward to intercept him.

look, his expression unreadable. “What do

We’ve wasted enough time.

to wait until his condition worsened, thinking it would be easier to act then. But seeing how much

Emyr, after all–a man who had once been the epitome of confidence and

when he looked into her eyes, he hesitated. There was something unrelenting in

jaw tightened, and the words he meant to say shifted as

“Great!”

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scathing remark, not a reluctant agreement. Her smile

be that excited to

steady, while Charmaine’s footsteps trailed behind,

crept at the edge of his

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

fingers

“What are you

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

There’s no need for all that.”

Charmaine’s patience thinned.

you already? Are you afraid I’ll take advantage

playfully, but in truth, she knew she had stretched the truth.

been dark, and with

“Charmaine!”

the stool closer and decisively rolled up his pant

are so, so fair…

had