Single Mom's Sweet Husband (Charlotte)
Chapter 421

"Are you saying that you want to leave me?" Shane held her shoulders with even more strength, and the veins on his jaw bulged. "Charlotte, are you leaving me and Sheryl behind just because of these two small matters? Did you even think about how she feels?"

"Is it important?" Charlotte replied coldly. "When you had me followed, you didn't think about my feelings, did you?"

"This kind of thing won't happen in the future."

"Do you still expect me to be with you in the future?"

"What do you mean?"

"The circumstances of Mrs. Fuller Senior's death are unclear. Whether you are secretly investigating this doesn't matter. What is important is that I don't know anything even though I sleep next to you every night. Do you really think that I won't wonder whether, if I die in the way Mrs. Fuller Senior did, you will make use of my death as well?"

Shane gritted his teeth. "Charlotte Emerson!"

"What? Did I say something wrong? Didn't you use Mrs. Fuller Senior's death to catch bigger fish? Did you really hide the news just because of Sheryl? Do you dare to say that without any guilt?" Of course he had wanted to use it as bait to catch Christopher.

But a bigger part of it was because he was indeed very indifferent to the death of Mrs. Fuller Senior.

Charlotte wasn't wrong. He was a cold-blooded, rational person who only cared about personal gain. However, she was different from his grandmother. She was already a part of his life that couldn't be removed. How could she not understand this truth?

Shane didn't answer her, but rather asked in a low voice, "You really don't trust me at all?"

"I want to trust you. These things happened so long ago, Shane. Did I ask you about it or suspect anything? But what happened in the end? I discovered Josephine. Do you really think I'm that generous?" Charlotte's eyes were slightly red, but she held back her emotions. She clenched her fists and said, "Today, we won't talk about these things. This is a contract."

The contract was for Shane to give up his right to Sheryl.

Shane frowned. "You should know that I won't sign it."

The child was the last chip he had to negotiate with her. How could he give the child to her?

"It doesn't matter if you don't sign it. We can talk about it in the court. Look at you... Oh..."

Before she could finish speaking, Shane had already grabbed her. He dragged her out of the coffee shop and stuffed her into his car. He tied her wrists together with his necktie. Her body was tied down by the seatbelt. She couldn't jump out of the car even if she wanted to, so she could only glare at him.

Shane took her home immediately.

Rick and Kendall had not left yet. They were watching TV with Sheryl.

When they saw Charlotte tied up, they knew how serious the situation was.

Kendall stretched out her hand and pushed Rick's shoulder. He put down the things in his hand and walked toward them.

"Shane, let me talk to her." Rick followed the two to the bedroom.

Shane was about to tell Charlotte everything that had happened between Mrs. Fuller Senior and Hans siblings. He didn't want Rick to talk to her, but seeing that Charlotte was crying, he thought that it would be good for her to calm down a little first. He nodded his head and left things to Rick.

Rick closed the door.

He walked up to Charlotte and removed the tie. "We're all very worried about you. Even if you don't talk to Shane, you can still talk to me. If you replace it inappropriate, you can talk to Kendall as well." Charlotte didn't know why he came, so she didn't intend to speak.

"Shane wasn't the only one who was involved in Mrs. Fuller Senior's death. Avery and I both knew about it."

Charlotte instantly raised her head to look at him.

"Except you, everyone knew about it. So if you want to blame someone, you should blame all of us for making the same decision."

"Why?" she asked.

"No reason. Christopher is already willing to kill people. If we told you and you went looking for him, he might kill you like he killed Mrs. Fuller Senior. Tell me, what should we have done then?" Rick took a step forward and held Charlotte's hand tightly. "If anything happens to you, what should we do? What should Shane do? What should Sheryl do?"

"Then what about Jackson?"

"With everything that happened with Christopher, is it so wrong for him to want to protect you?" Charlotte remained silent for a long time before she let out a soft laugh. "There's nothing wrong with it, but there's nothing wrong with me not being able to accept it either. It will be the same if he can't accept what I do. If that's the case, then we should split up and bear our own responsibilities. Isn't that good?" "Do you want to give up Shane?"

"Rick, I used to be very self-righteous and I know Shane very well. But now, not only do I not know him, but I don't even understand his logic. I don't want to give him up. Just think of it as me being... not worthy of him."

Rick was still holding Charlotte's hand tightly. He looked down and said, "No, it's all my fault. If I hadn't given up on you back then, this kind of thing wouldn't have happened."

"Kendall is more suitable for you. I'm not good enough for you, Rick."

"Lottie, you were not like this before, you..."

"Rick," Charlotte interrupted him softly. "Actually, I understand it all. It's because I understand that I know that I can't escape. I really can't."

Rick was stunned for a moment, and then he sighed.

There were some things that he could not say.

After a while.

He got up and left the room. When he saw Shane squatting down and talking to Sheryl, he opened his mouth, but he couldn't tell him that talking to Charlotte for so long didn't work. She was like a stubborn mule, and neither hardness nor softness could affect her.

"Rick." Sheryl ran to him. "Daddy said that he will take me out to play for a few days. Do you also want to go with us?"

Rick rubbed her hair and looked at Shane. Shane nodded to him. "Okay, if you're inviting us, of course well go," Rick said.

"Then I'll go in and ask Mommy."

Rick just wanted to stop her, but when he thought that since he had taken all the bindings off Charlotte, it should not be a big problem, so he did not stop her.

He walked up to Shane and said, "I'm pretty useless."

"Is she very determined?"

"In my opinion, it's not just determination."

Shane nodded and said, "I guessed so."

"Guessed?" Rick wondered.

Rick did not know what he had guessed, so he kept silent.

A moment later, Sheryl and Charlotte came out of the bedroom. Only then did Kendall get up and join them. He stood beside Charlotte and talked to her. "You're finally back. Did you know that, while you weren't here, Rick bullied me a lot? And I couldn't even ask for help. It was really terrible."

Her tone was aggrieved, with a hint of complaint.

Charlotte looked at her as if she was lost in thought. She could only shake her head.

"What's wrong with you? Do you feel unwell? Do you want me to take you to see a doctor?" Kendall asked in concern.

"I'm fine."

Rick also did not expect that Charlotte would come out so quickly. He smiled and said, "It seems that Sheryl did a good job. I can't compare with her."

Kendall also laughed in a silly manner. However, Charlotte did not say a single word.

Usually, she wasn't the kind of person who didn't respond.

For a moment, the atmosphere was frozen again.

Kendall turned her gaze elsewhere. "Well, let's not be stuck here. Let's go out to eat something, shall we? I am so hungry."

"Are we going to eat?"

Shane looked at Charlotte, who was right in front

of him.

Although he didn't know why she came out and what Sheryl said to her, it was a good thing that she was willing to come out to see him.

At this moment, Charlotte didn't have much appetite. Of course, she didn't want to go. However, when she saw Sheryl's eyes, she recalled what she had just said.

She nodded and said, "Why don't we get sukiyaki? I haven't had sukiyaki in a long time."

When they heard her say so, everyone was overjoyed.