Single Mom's Sweet Husband by Charlotte

Shane's smile was appealing which was completely different from his usual visage.

Charlotte liked his smile very much, but he didn't laugh often. It's rare for his lips to curve upwards. She looked at him unblinkingly, not wanting to miss a second of his smile, until it faded. "What are you laughing at?" Only then did she avert her gaze.

"You went out for a breather without taking your phone and instead of going to your friends, you chose to camp out in a coffee shop?"

"It's not camping if it was in a coffee shop," she argued. As soon as she realized what she said, she broke out in laughter.

Shane bent and kissed her between her brows. "You're not an orphan anymore. You have me."

Now I had him.

Charlotte's heart quavered and she leaned into his arms. She always felt that she would not get over the hurdle in her heart, but she seemed to be able to get over it easily.

It appeared to be in the past.

Rick's residence.

Anne put her suitcase down and took in her surroundings. "Rick, you should redecorate your house."

Before she left, the interior was European-styled, now it became gothic. The wallpaper was jet black and it looked very reclusive. Anne knew Rick didn't prefer this style because it felt particularly repressive. What's going on?

"Well, I think this style isn't bad," Rick said. "You can head on upstairs."

"Rick, aren't you going to ask me?"

"Am I still your brother?" Rick smiled. "You can tell Charlotte about this. All I can do is to provide accommodations and money for you. Anything else doesn't concern me."

Anne bit her lip and grabbed Rick's arm. "You're angry at me, aren't you?"

Rick didn't break free. Instead, he patted her head. "I'm your brother. I won't be angry with you no matter what. But you don't have to tell me everything in your life. Nothing good will come out of it." Nothing good would come out of it?

Anne didn't understand what he meant, but Braden

already had his arms around her. He bowed his head and said, "Anne, we can talk about this later. Now respect your brother's wishes and respect yourself."

refused to ask her, but she would never tell him the

very likely she would reply, "It's none

always been

his study, turned on his computer, and saw the photos of him, Anne, and Charlotte together on the desk. When he gave Charlotte up, he knew that this day would come.

he still made up his

was right or

her life in

she pushed Kendall to him without hesitating, he knew that

series of beeps alerted him to an incoming

notification appeared on

and Kendall's

face hid a malicious disposition. Rick couldn't help

to attend Anne's wedding too, but I don't know if I

It doesn't look good on

frown anymore. By

amenable and lovely, just like when she was a child. It wasn't that Rick didn't like her present self, but the fact that she could do that to Sheryl and hypnotize Christopher, he just couldn't let it

her, and didn't want to reveal what had happened. He wanted to see

as if reprimanding Kendall for loafing all day. Kendall snorted, took her phone to the other side of the room, and crouched in the

Caleb is worsening?" "Yeah, I don't know

to the Steven family, so they were getting increasingly indifferent towards

trying to gain a firm foothold in

move in with me?"

that okay?" Kendall raised her head and her eyes were

course you can. But Kendall, I have a

"What is it?"

do you stand between

lowered her head and refused to answer the question. After all, if she believed in Rick wholly, as long as

the Steven Family were increasingly

Charlotte and I..." Kendall didn't finish her

know the answer," Rick

related to the Steven

His eyes fell on the desk. "Kendall, if I told you that leaving the Steven family was the only way to protect you, were you willing to believe me and stand on my side?" "Why?" Her voice was