The Man in Power After Being Married into Her Family by Adela

However, she had only just discovered that Charlie was not home after she had arrived.

It turned out that Charlie had already left for Japan because of an emergency a few days ago and had not returned yet.

This made Loreen feel a little lost and despondent. Her originally happy and ecstatic mood instantly dimmed a lot.

In fact, Loreen had actually been a little hesitant when Claire and her family had invited her to stay and join them for lunch just half an hour ago. She felt that since Charlie was not at home, she would only be wasting an opportunity to get closer to Charlie if she were to stay at Claire's house for lunch today. 3

She was thinking of telling them that she would just visit them again another day, but Loreen could not turn them down because Claire had been very enthusiastic, and she finally agreed to stay for lunch with them.

However, Loreen would never have expected Charlie t o come home even before they had started eating their meal!

Therefore, Loreen was looking at Charlie with a very excited look on her face at this moment.

Jacob and Elaine were both naturally very happy to

see that Charlie had already come home. 2

the past few days. Jacob had been facing Elaine at home every day, and he was

she was even happier. As soon as she saw Charlie, she said happily, "Oh! My good son-in-law, you are

stop her eyes from looking at Charlie's hands

home for her. So, Elaine was looking forward to seeing what kind of gift Charlie would bring back for her this

this time, and it looked as though he had not prepared a gift for her

could not help but feel somewhat disappointed, but she was too embarrassed to show it. After all, her attitude toward Charlie had already changed drastically compared to how

brought her a gift this time, aside from feeling a

also realized that he had come home in a hurry and had not prepared a small gift

walked up to Elaine before he sat down beside her and smiled as he said, "Mother-in-law, I am so sorry. I wanted to buy and bring you back some gifts from Japan this time, but a friend of mine was going

you thought of me. As for the gifts,

thousand dollars to you on PayPal later.

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Elaine heard this, she asked excitedly, "Oh, my God! My good son-in-law, is what...

be fake? Mother-in-law, give me a moment. I

phone and transferred