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Jaxson stared straight ahead, his face super gloomy. After he finished listening, he turned to Cynthia, “Have someone watch her secretly, don’t let her get a chance to get close to Charlotte.”
Meanwhile, Charlotte, who was asked to do a brain arteriovenous malformation surgery at the Union Hospital next door, also just finished the operation.
Dr. Callum Hunter from Union Hospital and David were old ssmates. When he was on a business trip in Boston, David had rmended Charlotte to him.
“Dr. Sutton, sorry to trouble you toe all the way from Quelum Hospital.”
“No trouble, David was good to me, so it was only right for me to help you.”
Callum walked her to the door and said, “If Dr. Sutton ever needs anything, our hospital will do everything we can.”
In this line of work, you really needed to have your own connections.
Charlotte agreed right away, “Okay!”
After Callum turned back, Charlotte walked to the intersection to get a cab, and at that moment, she got a WhatsApp message from Reynald.
Reynald asked her to meet at the hotel’s western restaurant.
She looked at the message and hesitated for a moment.
She already made it clearst time, she and Reynald didn’t owe each other anything, but…
Charlotte thought that James didn’t know about him asking Reynald to look after her, so obviously, Reynald had lied to her from the start.
She hesitated about whether to reply. The other person sent a message: “I can tell you everything.”
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Charlotte arrived at the hotel restaurant.
Inside the restaurant, it was empty with no one around, and the sign outside said “Not serving customers for now.”
She stood outside for half a minute, checked the address he gave her, and a waiter came out, “Are you looking for Mr. Steward?”
She took back her phone, nodded, and said, “Yes.”
The waiter stepped aside and took her into the private dining room.
Reynald sat alone in the private room, not sure what he was thinking, kind of absent–minded.
When Charlotte opened the door and came in, he didn’t snap out of it right away.
“Mr. Steward, the person you were waiting for already arrived.”
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It wasn’t until the waiter spoke up that he snapped out of it, “You can go out first. If we want to orderter, we’ll call you.”
“Okay.”
After the waiter left, Reynald looked at Charlotte, “Sit down.”
Charlotte put her bag on the chair and sat down slowly.
“Did you want something to eat?”
“Don’t bother.”
She politely said no.
Reynald looked a bit lonely, she really did keep her distance from him.
Charlotte also realized she went a bit too far and added, “Just a bowl of ramen. I’m actually not that hungry.”
He finally smiled, “Okay.”
After they ordered, Charlotte finally spoke up, “Reynald, you didn’t just ask me here for dinner, right? That message, can you exin it now?”
Reynald paused while pouring tea and gave a slight smile, “Let’s eat first, we’ll talkter.”
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Charlotte saw that he was still being mysterious, so she didn’t ask again.
Just waited for ten minutes or half an hour.
“Did you get along with Nigel?”
“Nigel?” Charlotte spaced out for a second, then realized who he meant. “Prof. Kendall? We’re just colleagues.”
“Is that so…”
“Reynald, I always felt like you were a bit distracted today.”
Reynald gripped the teacup in his hand, she noticed.
He avoided her eyes, looked up and drank his tea. “No, I just did something wrong and didn’t know how to face
you for a moment.‘
“Everyone made mistakes sometimes.”
“Not everything could be forgiven.”
She didn’t say anything.
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“Charlotte.” Reynald looked at her urgently, “Do you want to leave Jaxson?”
Charlotte was confused and didn’t get what he meant by that.
“What if I had a way to make you leave him for good?”
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She lowered her eyes and gave a faint smile, “I wanted to leave him, but relying on others wasn’t the way.”
“the Hamilton family was all–powerful, it was so hard for you to leave on your own, he would still find you!” Reynald suddenly grabbed her hand.
She got startled and tried to pull back, but he held her even tighter, “I have a way to make him give up on you!”
“Reynald, let go first!”
Realizing he was losing control, he let go.
Charlotte rubbed her wrist. She realized something was off with Reynald today, but she couldn’t tell what. “I can handle things with Jaxson myself.”
Reynald’s clenched fist slowly loosened. He gave a bitter smile, “Yeah, true.”
Charlotte finished the tea in her cup and vaguely felt a bit dizzy. She started to feel tired all over.
“What happened to you?”
Reynald’s voice echoed in her ears, but her eyelids got heavier and heavier, and she fell onto the table before she could say anything.
This scene was just what he expected.
His dry lips moved, like he was saying, “Sorry…”
He really wanted to help her, too.
If it looked like Charlotte had been with him, would Jaxson still have picked her?
Thinking of this, Reynald slowly got up and walked toward her.
He was just about to help Charlotte up when the door to the private room suddenly swung open. Before he could react, the person who came in strode over and punched him hard in the face.
Reynald almost couldn’t stand, fell onto the table, and knocked over the dishes.
He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth awkwardly, turned his head, and saw Nigel.
“How did you…”
“Reynald, are you F**King crazy!”
Nigel grabbed him by the cor and, for the first time, got rough with him. “Do you know what you’re doing?”
“Of course I knew!” Reynald didn’t think he was wrong, “I was helping her. If she wanted to leave Jaxson, this was the only way!”
Nigel’s face suddenly turned cold, “Are you helping her? You’re ruining her!”
“I wasn’t really gonna touch her!”
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Reynald was stunned.
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He went on, “Even if you really didn’t touch her, do you think anyone would believe it? After this, when she wakes up, will she be grateful to you or just hate you even more?”
These words left Reynald speechless.
Nigel pushed him away hard, took off his coat and wrapped it around Charlotte, then picked her up in his arms.
He stopped at the door, turned back, “And one more thing, abusing anesthesia was illegal. For old times‘ sake, since we used to be brothers, I didn’t report you, but there wouldn’t be a next time.”
Watching Nigel take Charlotte away, Reynald suddenly gave a self–mocking smile.
He just sat in the chair all dazed, like he’d lost his soul.
Caroline walked out from the corner of the hallway and saw Charlotte being taken away. She couldn’t help but clench her fists.
She shouldn’t have pinned her hopes on Reynald if she’d known earlier!
Loser!
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Charlotte woke up in the hospital room.
She suddenly sat up as she thought of something. Penelope, who was next to her, turned to look at her, “You’re awake?”
“What was wrong with me?”
“You were drugged, um… it was Prof. Kendall who brought you back to the hospital.”
Nigel?
Charlotte was a bit surprised. She looked at Penelope and saw that Penelope looked a littleplicated. She was about to exin, but got interrupted, “Alright, alright, I actually knew Prof. Kendall could never like me. My crush should be over. So even if you and Prof. Kendall really had something, I… I’d just be jealous for a few days, I wouldn’t really be mad at you.”
Charlotte’s serious look was instantly broken by her words, “You really overthought it.”
Nigel was standing outside the door at some point, and he raised his hand and knocked on the door.
Interrupted their conversation.
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