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

no known ties to the

was once a socialite of Imperial City, but her

seemed coincidental at

but without

he turned to Brittany, “The man with you today, is he your

run the company,” Brittany clarified, noting the misunderstanding. “My fiancé is

of light flickered in Charles’s eyes before he spoke again, “Alright, I’ll be

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City soon. We’ll catch

shed her defenses and the day’s dust, falling

and Landon got down to business.

was eager and genuine.

of hammering out

at a bar, and Landon joined them. By some stroke of fate, the chosen bar was owned by

applause filled the air as they

instruments, stood a young

chiseled chest; his wet hair clung to his

lean, and exuded a sense of

in him shedding his shirt and moving rhythmically

crowd was

felt a tightening