The Cherished Wife by Chweety

Noelle's eyes went wide again. "You're making stuff up, that was... that was just me admiring him!" Noelle had not seen anyone more good-looking than Steven. "However, Mr. Smith, you've got me all wrong. If you keep this up, I might just tell Charles or Steven, I think..." "Alright, alright, I was just kidding!" Sean quickly threw up his hands in surrender. "Can't a guy joke around?" Sean shook his head with a wry smile. "They say it's tough to deal with divas and drama kings."

"What was that?" Noelle acted like she did not catch his drift. "Mr. Smith?"

"Nothing, I was just saying you look really pretty!"

"What's taking you two so long?" Charles spun around to find Noelle and Sean whispering about something, lagging behind.

"Nothing much!" Noelle giggled, catching up quickly. "Mr. Smith just said he's super jealous of us!"

"Is that so?" Charles smirked, shooting a look at Sean, who could only shrug with a wry smile. "Yeah, I'm totally jealous. Even the singles wish they were you."

destination was right next to Sean's mansion. Noelle and Charles decided to

up so much earlier, especially when Sean stopped mid-sentence and suggested

into Mr. Fischer, huh?" Charles finally said after Noelle had rambled on

Steven big time, saying that neither you nor Peter could take

raised an eyebrow. "Sounds

Noelle shook her head frantically. "Charles, how could I ever doubt you, right?" She plastered a smile on her face, but inside, her heart was howling

to tousle her hair affectionately. "You're such a goof. Did I scare

head and swatted Charles's hand away.

grinned. "Sean's got

and I put together might still fall short against Mr. Fischer he's really something else!" It was

average Joe could stand up to him. Lucky for them, he and Peter were not on Steven's bad