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

been on break for the past few days. Jacob had been facing Elaine at home every day, and he was already extremely annoyed and frustrated. Therefore,

she was even happier. As soon as she saw Charlie, she said happily, "Oh! My good son-in-law, you are finally home after so many days. Do you know how

could not stop her eyes from looking at Charlie's

brought all kinds of high-end and luxurious gifts back home for

time, and it looked as though he had not prepared a

too embarrassed to show it. After all, her attitude toward Charlie had already changed drastically compared to

not brought her a gift this time, aside from feeling a little disappointed, she was not upset or

this time, Charlie also realized that he had come home in a hurry and had not prepared a small gift for Elaine this

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 to take a private jet back to Oskia. So, I hitched a ride with him at the last minute,

waved her hand and said, "Oh! My good son-in-law, I am already very happy that you thought of me. As for the gifts, you do not need to

two hundred thousand dollars to you on PayPal

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excitedly, "Oh, my God! My good son-in-law, is what... is what you

he said, "How could it be fake? Mother-in-law, give me a moment. I will transfer the money

that, Charlie took out his cell phone and transferred two hundred