Wooing My Ex-Wife by Mr. Adeel

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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I leave now, how will you find me later?”

aback, not expecting Charles to notice

only took your phone for repair because I saw it was broken. It might take some

and offered it to her. “Why would I be mad

head in guilt and mumbled, “I’m sorry for meddling with

warm. “There’s no need to apologize. You were just trying to

two continued their conversation during dinner,

passed, Charles and Winona spent more time together

they found themselves dressed in the same traditional

fact that this was the uniform attire of the fishing village, people might have mistaken them for

and frolicked, just like a young

Winona, and she chased after

on the

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

eyes.

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

“Winona, have you ever

lips in deep thought. “Love? I do envy Sera from our village. She and her boyfriend are indeed very affectionate. However, I haven’t

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and longing for love, Charles abruptly stood up, blocking the sunlight in front of her. He looked at her seriously and said,

“Huh?”

sea breeze gently blew, lightly caressing their cheeks,

aspects of Winona were similar to Gwendolyn. He really liked

obsession that

a long while, Winona regained her senses, her heart inexplicably racing, a blush

being in a

a pained expression. “I’m unfortunate, and I can’t bring this misfortune upon you. I’m truly sorry. Your phone has been fixed.

ran off in a flurry, leaving him with nothing but

panicked expression, Charles gave a bitter smile and then

go

looking flushed. “Take a look. It seems like a lot of people have been calling

call logs from Whitney, along with a barrage of messages.

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