The Cherished Wife by Chweety

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Chapter 26

Noelle felt her heart start pounding rapidly. She did not like feeling lost for words. She forced herself to suppress those unfamiliar emotions and drew a long breath before forcibly changing the subject. “Did you ever visit the snack bars right outside the university when you were a student, Mr. Hoffman? I used to enjoy having supper there with my classmates.”

Charles‘ eyebrows raised slightly as he glanced at Noelle and asked, “You guys scaled the walls?”

Noelle blushed, feeling like Charles had seen right through her. However, there was no way she would admit that, and her face turned even redder as she retorted, “No, of course not. We exited through the main gate!”

She had answered so urgently that it made her seem even more like she was trying to cover something up, but Charles merely smiled without saying anything else. She also fell silent, thinking to herself that this man was a little different from the image she had formed of him previously.

as a student, she would often scale the walls and leave the university premises with her friend Sophie Yates or

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don’t you head over first? I’ll park the car at Vista University!”

that Charles had probably

out of the car, he gazed at Noelle standing beneath the oak trees, her purse slung over her shoulder as she nudged the pebbles around her half–heartedly. Sunlight shone through the trees and dappled across her. Charles felt like time had slowed down as

Charles standing with his car keys in hand,

gazed at her.

were traveling around the campus in groups. After a moment’s thought, she shook her head and said, “Maybe next time. Let’s grab something to eat from the shops in the nearby alleyways. before the students‘ classes

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“Alright!”