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Charlotte's emotions ran high, her eyes blazing with fury as she lunged at Meryl, throwing punches and clawing wildly. Chandler shielded Meryl, using his height advantage to keep Charlotte at bay.

"Charlotte, for God's sake, calm down! We're in a hospital!" Chandler warned in a stern voice

"To hell with that! My son almost died, and you're worried about making a scene?" Charlotte snapped back.

The commotion drew curious glances from passersby, their public spectacle attracting unwanted attention.

Meryl stepped out from behind Chandler, her brow furrowed as she faced Charlotte.

"You keep blaming me for what happened to your son," Meryl said coldly, "but conveniently forget to mention how he kidnapped me and stripped away my freedom. Care to explain that?"

"That's bullshit! Dalton would never do such a thing!" Charlotte exclaimed in disbelief, convinced Meryl was spinning lies.

"Why don't you ask him yourself when he wakes up?" Meryl challenged.

Charlotte froze, momentarily stunned into silence.

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wondered if Dalton

been acting

kept dodging her calls. When he finally picked up once, she'd invited him back to the Aniston Villa for dinner, but Dalton had

Charlotte had asked around, and Dalton hadn't even been showing up to hang out with

kidnapped Meryl, though, it would

Charlotte's confidence visibly deflated.

the truth, Charlotte realized

stunt? You know better than I do how ugly this could get if word gets oul." Chandler hadn't even had

becoming much more compliant, her previous arrogance nowhere to be

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know anything about this. Dalton's still unconscious. You can't just say whatever you want and expect us to believe it. We'll talk when he wakes up!" With that, Charlotte

night, leaving him

following day that he finally began to

branches of the Aniston family had arrived, cramming the hospital

up two or three hours after surgery,

rushing back and forth between the hospital and the Aniston Villa, embellishing the story along the way. She even managed to rouse Dylan, who

fluttered open, Lydia rushed