Chapter 13%
Charles Watson raised an eyebrow his dark gaze steady on me. Such as?“?
“For example,I’ll draft a prenuptial agreement. It’ll include each party maintaining separate ownership of their assets,agreed–upon rules on how joint finances are managed after marriage,a non–interference clause in each other’s businesses and if we both divorce,both parties must walk away with nothing from the house with no strings attached.I won’t interfere in your personal circle, but you won’t have any say over my role in the family business either”
I answered without hesitation,my tone cool and composed.
The man across from me went silent for a few seconds then unexpectedly he chuckled.
“What’s so funny?” frowned slightly.
He didn’t answer right away Instead he just looked at me and that gaze…seemed to stretch back across time!
Charles set down his wine glass,tapped the table lightly with his fingers and said with a faint smile, Emily.you really don’t remember me?” I froze.
“We’ve..met before?“I tried to search his features for a clue,but nothing about his mature and handsome face sparked any familiarity. Instead of explaining immediately he suddenly stood up,walked over to my side of the table,bent down and then gently took my wrist in his hand.&
instinctively tried to pull away,but then I heard him say soft and low, “Don’t be scared. We’ll go home together.”
In that moment,my entire body went stiff as a long–buried memory jolted to my mind.
When I was a little girl, I was kidnapped with a small boy!!
I was six years old and he was probably five. We were sobbing uncontrollably
1 held his tiny hand and left the abandoned factory secretly. We wandered through the mountains for two whole days with
water Eventually he started burning up with fevercollapsing to the ground and refusing to move
I lay in his ear and coaxed him over and over again, “Don’t be scared we’ll go home together,okay?
The voice of the man in front of me overlapped with the child in my memory.
I stared at him in a daze,carefully and seriously re–studying his eyebrows and eyes 2
“You are……that little boy?” asked in disbelief
Charles smiled. “Do you finally remember?You even told me you’d be my big sister forever and protect me!
food or
I snorted a laugh,my emotions suddenly loosened up quite a bit and I couldn’t help but tease him, “You were snotty as a child and you actually managed to grow so handsome?”
He wasn’t annoyed he just looked at me,his eyes containing a soft light like starlight.
“So it’s really you…“I murmured with emotion, “We are really destined to be together.”
However,he shook his head,his eyes were resolute. It’s not fate,it’s that I’ve been waiting for you for a long time.
My heart skipped a beat. When he said the was dead serious, without a hint of a joke in here.S
For a while,words escaped me All I felt was his hand that wrapped around my wrist and it seemed its warmth gradually penetrated into my blood and bones.
He suddenly leaned in closer and said in a low voice, “I’ve been looking for you for a long time and I’ve always wanted to know if you were doing well. When I was a child you escaped with me and for the first time,I felt warmth.”
Then I went into the hospital with a fever. After I woke up,you had already gone. You promised we’d go home together, but you didn’t wait
for me.
I sucked in a breath.!
“I thought you forgot about me. However, eventually I realized that I just wasn’t good enough for you yet.”
After he said that he asked softly Am I good enough now?“%
I looked at him with an indescribable feeling in my heart.
He still held my hand. Not too tightly, but just enough to let me know he wouldn’t let me go again.Like he had already made up his mind that he was going to hold on and never let me go away
