The Ex and Her Riches novel (Gwendolyn and Maverick)

Chapter 856 Taking Responsibility

“You’ve worked hard today, so why don’t you stay for dinner tonight?”

Charles instinctively reached out and gently held Winona’s wrist. He stared at her meaningfully, causing Winona to feel a bit flustered, and her cheeks flushed red.

She managed to free her wrist from his grasp. With a coy glance, she lifted her skirt, turned, and playfully ran off into the distance.

Observing her retreating figure, a faint smile played at the corners of Charles’ lips as he followed her.

Under the guise of a life-saving favor, all of Winona’s advances became reasonable.

When dinner time arrived, Winona prepared a large table filled with exquisite dishes.

Since they were in a fishing village, the table featured an array of dishes made from fish. prepared in various ways.

As Charles surveyed the feast, he recalled Winona mentioning that she and her grandmother were all each other had. However, during his few days here, he had not yet seen the elderly woman, sparking his curiosity.

“Winona, doesn’t your grandmother live here?”

Winona, who was in the middle of serving food, paused for a moment. She replied, “My grandmother often treats sick fishermen in the village. If she hasn’t finished helping a family yet, she won’t return home. Is there a reason you want to meet her?”

With a sweet smile, Winona deliberately let her hair graze against Charles’ cheek as she served him food.

“I was just curious. It’s been a while since I last saw her.”

Winona changed the subject, asking, “Now that you’ve tasted my cooking, what kind of impression do you have of me?”

Charles smiled. “You’re as pure and innocent as Cinderella in the fairy tales.”

Winona blushed slightly at the compliment.

“You have a way with words. But you’ve been here for quite some time. Aren’t your family worried about you? What do you do for a living?”

In response to Winona’s probes, Charles replied, “You know, you took my phone for repairs

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how will you find me later?”

to notice that she had secretly taken

regained her composure and explained, “I only took your phone for repair because I saw it was broken. It

piece of fish and offered it to her. “Why would I be mad at

lowered her head in guilt and mumbled, “I’m sorry for meddling with your phone without permission.”

“There’s no need

their conversation during dinner, getting to know each other better.

Winona spent more time together in the

the same traditional fishing village attire, standing by

this was the uniform attire of

teased and frolicked, just like a young couple in love.

and she chased after him.

exhausted, lying on

looked at the panting girl beside him, a flicker of unusual emotion flashing

eyes.

next to him was dampened by the seawater, sticking to her face,

ever considered being in a

Sera from our village. She and her boyfriend are indeed

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her filled with anticipation and longing for love, Charles abruptly stood up, blocking the sunlight in front of her. He looked at her seriously and said, “So… what if I would like to be your partner?”

“Huh?”

blew, lightly caressing their cheeks, while

many aspects of Winona were similar to Gwendolyn. He really liked

protect the obsession that

long while, Winona regained her senses, her heart inexplicably

thought about being in a relationship…

I can’t bring this misfortune upon you. I’m truly sorry. Your phone has been fixed. I’ll

Winona ran off in a flurry, leaving him with nothing but her

panicked expression, Charles gave a bitter smile

go

flushed. “Take a look. It seems like a lot of people

unlocked his phone, only to find countless call logs

are you? Are you okay? I’m really worried about you.