The Billionaire Who Stole My Heart

Chapter 846

Brittany managed a wry smile, “How have you been holding up lately?”

“Just peachy.”

Brittany had met Charles under serendipitous circumstances. He seemed like a free spirit, but underneath that facade was a highly competent man with an extensive network of information at his fingertips. Her trip to Craneville was spurred by a desire to delve deeper into the research institute’s mysteries.

“How’s the investigation going?” she asked.

“Hang tight,” he replied before standing up to leave.

Upon his return, Charles slid a stack of papers across the table towards her. “Based on what I’ve found so far, the family bankrolling the institute from the shadows is likely the Salters.”

“The Salter family?”

“Yes,” Charles nodded. “Pete Salter had a keen interest in these matters, but he’s been

gone for years, and there’s nothing left to uncover.”

The documents echoed Charles’s words.

Brittany hadn’t expected the Salter family to be entangled in this affair.

“There’s something else,” Charles said with a sly grin. “I discovered that your mother, Ms) Russell, had visited Craneville before.”

“My mother?”

“Indeed.”

it just so happens that Pete Salter was in town at the same time as

had no known ties to the

socialite of Imperial City,

Salters seemed coincidental at

there was more to it, but without evidence, he kept his theories

leaving, he turned to Brittany, “The man with

the company,” Brittany clarified, noting the

before he spoke again, “Alright,

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City soon. We’ll catch up there.”

Brittany shed her defenses and the day’s dust, falling into a deep,

and Landon

other party was eager

two days of hammering out the details.

them. By some stroke of fate,

and applause filled the air

stage, behind the instruments, stood a young

his wet hair clung to his

exuded

culminating in him shedding his

was

felt a tightening in her chest.