Single Mom's Sweet Husband by Charlotte

Seeing Charlotte's tears flow down her cheeks, Sheryl sensibly stopped crying. Instead, she sniffled as she took out the Centurion Card.

"Mommy, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have lied to you. I bought the dress with this."

Sheryl carefully observed Charlotte's expression while Anne immediately recognized the origin of the card.

"Isn't this my brother's Centurion Card?"

"Uncle Rick said that with this, not only could I protect mommy, but I could also buy beautiful things to please her. That's why I took it," Sheryl confessed, lowering her head in remorse. After all, she had promised Uncle Rick that this was their little secret.

After figuring out the ins and outs of the incident, Charlotte was moved and selfreproached. Sheryl had been kind-hearted and absolutely adorable since she was a wee kid. How could she suspect that Sheryl had done something that she shouldn't have?

"Sheryl, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have doubted

you."

shouldn't have made you angry,

warm sight filled Anne with envy. In order to cut the experience short, she changed the

tell us more about the handsome

once Sheryl called her. Yet, she didn't

lit up and she spilled the entire story

Charlotte was also rather gratified to learn that her daughter was too sharp-witted to be bullied. "Mommy, if you really can't find daddy, I think that handsome mister can also be my daddy." Recalling the words and actions of the handsome man during

"Darling Sheryl, don't you

to be in some sort of a dilemma.

to decide between Uncle Rick and Mister Handsome was too difficult a choice for

should

Sheryl to sleep, Charlotte sent Anne downstairs and handed her the Centurion