The Man in Power After Being Married into Her Family
Chapter 3549

When the time came, he would just give her a piece of the gold bar as a gift and let her play with it. This way, he would not need to worry about Elaine taking the gold bars and selling them for cash.

If this was in the past, it went without saying that Elaine definitely would have brought the gold bar out with her early in the morning tomorrow to sell it.

And before she went out, she probably would have gone into Charlie and Claire's room to steal the other remaining nine pieces of gold bars to sell them together.

But now, Elaine was really much more honest, and her legs were not so convenient. It would not be very realistic for her to want to go out to sell the gold bar.

What's more, she also had to honestly keep the gold bar to prevent herself from being unable to produce the gold bar whenever Charlie wanted to check on it at a whim.

Therefore, Charlie was giving her a very valuable gift that she could not exchange for money just to hold her state of mind.

When Charlie returned to Thompson First with the ten pieces of gold bars, he saw his wife, Claire, walking out from the garage in the courtyard as soon as he had just entered the gate.

Claire had just driven back and parked her car. When she saw Charlie pushing the door into the courtyard, she said joyfully, "Honey, you're back!"

Charlie looked at her and spoke in a doting and affectionate tone, "I'm back. Did you miss me these few days?"

"Of course I did!" Claire was not shy at all, and she happily ran over and jumped into Charlie's arms. She was very happy, but she also complained a little as she said, "Why didn't you tell me in advance that you were coming back so I could have gone and picked you up at the airport?!"

Charlie laughed and said, "I know that you must have been rather busy with your work, so I did not want you to go through so much trouble to go so far just to pick me up. So, I took a cab home by myself!"

Claire said seriously, "What's so troublesome about me picking you up? You traveled all the way back on a plane and even had to queue for a cab! It must have been very tiring!"

"It wasn't tiring." Charlie said casually, "I'm very fit physically, and this small matter means nothing to me at all."

Claire said helplessly, "If you had told

me earlier, I could have come home to cook first and wait for you to come back home. My mom has not been cooking properly over the past few days when you were not home. She has constantly been staying idle all day long, and she just called me to tell me that she does not want to cook tonight. She even asked me to come home to order food in."

Charlie laughed and said, "It's pretty good to order food. Order one set for me too!" Claire nodded and said, "You should go home to rest and relax first!"

Both of them held hands and came to the front of the villa. After that, Claire swiped her finger on the fingerprint lock. As soon as they had just entered the door, they heard Elaine's lazy and reproachful voice sounding. "Claire! Why are you only home now? That godd*mned father of yours has already gone out with the people from the Calligraphy and Painting Association again. I've already been feeling hungry for a long time, and I was just waiting for

you to come home and order food..."

At this time, Elaine was lying down lazily on the sofa in the living room. She did not even need to look to know that it was Claire who was back.

Claire said helplessly, "Mom, you've really been too lazy these past few days. You don't need to do the housework, but you could have at least ordered food for yourself if you're hungry..."

Elaine said impatiently, "I get most annoyed when I have to order food. I will either want to eat everything that I see, or I will not feel like eating anything that I see. So, you should order the food. I'll just wait and eat it..." Claire sighed and said, "Mom, Charlie is back. Let him see what he wants to eat."

As soon as Claire's words fell, they could hear Elaine, who was in the living room, exclaiming, "Oh, my God! My good son-in-law is back?!"

After that, the sound of someone jumping around on crutches could be heard.

Immediately after that, Elaine had

one hand on her crutches as she ran and jumped all the way over. As

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soon as she saw Charlie, she immediately smiled at him in a flattering manner as she said, "Oh! My good son-in-law, you're back. Why didn't you tell me that you were coming back? I would have cooked something delicious for you!"

After saying that, Elaine immediately said, "My good son-in-law, you should rest first. I will go and take a look at the kitchen to see what I can cook for you!"