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."

naturally hopped into Sean's car because Steven's destination was right next to Sean's mansion. Noelle and Charles decided to

Sean had bigged him up so much earlier, especially

huh?" Charles finally said after Noelle had rambled on for a

She shook her head quickly. "It's just that Mr. Smith was talking up Steven big time, saying that neither you nor Peter could take him in a fight. I'm

"Sounds like you don't

Noelle shook her head frantically. "Charles, how could I ever doubt you,

out to tousle her hair

shook her head and swatted Charles's hand away. "Not at all!" She was not about

grinned. "Sean's

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 side, or they would be