His Coy Lover

“Charles, just now in the meeting room, your expression was ice-cold, and you looked so gloomy that even I felt a bit scared. But after making a phone call, you completely changed. Come on, give me another smile.”

As the words fell, Charles grabbed a large stack of documents and threw them towards Randy.Property © of NôvelDrama.Org.

Randy caught all the documents.

“Charles, the documents sent to you here are all important. If you throw them like this, what if they get torn?”

Randy sorted out all the documents, put them back in front of Charles, and said with a smile, “It seems like you and your wife get along well. By the way, when you mentioned Roscente just now, is your wife the heiress of Roscente?”

In the next moment, he froze, leaning over the table, cautiously confirming, “Charles, don’t tell me your wife is Zelda?”

Having overheard Charles’s conversation with Zelda, Charles openly admitted, “Yes, it’s her. What’s the problem?”

Randy “… If she can do such extreme things, why did you marry her? Aren’t you afraid she’ll drive someone else to death?”

“No, she forced me to marry her.”

Randy was dumbfounded.

After a while, he reached out and touched Charles’s forehead to check if he had a fever. His temperature was normal.

“Not feverish and confused; she forced you to marry her, and you agreed?”

“I need a wife, and she needs a husband. It’s that simple.”

“Just now, you two were chatting happily, and I even tasted a flavor of indulgence.”

Charles’s black eyes flickered.

Indulgence?

Was he indulging that shameless woman?

Did he?

Recalling the bits and pieces of their recent interactions, Charles had to admit that he had indeed developed a sense of indulgence towards Zelda, or else she wouldn’t be acting more and more shamelessly.

“How could she force you to marry her after doing such extreme things?”

That was Randy’s most curious question.

Charles, self-loving and confident, said, “Because I’m handsome.”

Randy almost burst into laughter.

He couldn’t believe that the icy-faced Charles could say something like that.

“Laugh if you want, but don’t develop any problems. The company has been particularly busy lately; you better not think about taking sick leave.”

Randy couldn’t hold back his laughter.

After he finished laughing, Charles said coldly, “Give Lowell a thorough beating for me.”

“So harsh? Weren’t we just supposed to give him a lesson?”

“It’s a lesson.”

Just a lesson to make Lowell fall apart.

Burton dared to assault Zelda, he was practically asking for trouble.

Randy quickly understood, and with a bit of sympathy, he said, “Burton is really unlucky.”

Zelda had fallen in love with Burton at first sight. Burton couldn’t resist her passionate pursuit, so he accepted her.

Before that, Zelda had loved Burton so much that she was willing to die for him. Why did she suddenly decide to marry Charles?

“If he doesn’t go too far, I won’t target Lowell.”

On the other end, after Zelda talked to her father over the phone, her restless heart slowly calmed down. She could focus on her work now.

Immersed in work, time passed quickly, and it was already time to get off work.

Zelda stuffed the sample drawings into her bag, intending to look at them while waiting for dinner.

“Zelda.”

Just as she walked out of the office, she heard her father’s call.

Zelda stopped, turned to look at her father approaching, and greeted him with a smile.

“Your mom just called. She asked us to go home for lunch. She personally cooked a lot of dishes to celebrate your first day of work.”

Peck spoke gently, “When I took over the Roscente Group back then, your mom didn’t celebrate for me like this.”

Zelda playfully said, “Maybe my mom gave you a special celebration.”

“Dad, Charles said we would have lunch together. Since Mom personally cooked, I’ll refuse Charles then.”

Zelda was about to take out her phone to make a call but was stopped by her father.

“Zelda, since Charles suggested having lunch together, accompany him. I’ll talk to your mom, and besides, it gives me a chance to enjoy a quiet meal alone.”

“Will Mom be disappointed?”

“No, as long as you get along well with Charles and he treats you well, your mom and I will be very happy.”

“Then, I’ll go home to have dinner with Mom tonight.”

Zelda felt that she couldn’t go back on her agreement with Charles; otherwise, that man would definitely make her write another ten thousand words of self-criticism.

Ah, she had become addicted to writing those ten thousand words of self-criticism.

In the future, if he fell in love with her, she would have him write her ten thousand words of love letters, with no repetitive content.

She looked forward to the day when she would receive love letters from Charles.

“Dad, have you agreed to cooperate with Rovella?”

Zelda walked into the CEO’s exclusive elevator with her father.

“Not yet.”

Peck answered, “Rovella and Winston are arch-enemies. Now that you’re with Winston, I won’t easily cooperate with Rovella.”

Although he wanted to agree very much.

“This Vinson is really strange. Before, when I personally went to negotiate with Rovella, Vinson wouldn’t even see me. Today, he suddenly came to discuss cooperation with us. I feel a bit uneasy, as if he wants to set a trap. It’s highly likely that he knows about your relationship with Charles, so he came over, pretending to discuss cooperation, but actually trying to trap us.”

“If they trap us and force Charles to intervene to help us through the difficulties, that’s exactly what they want.”

Zelda nodded repeatedly, “I also have the same thoughts.”

But Charles said that Vinson came for her.

Last time, Vinson had said that they would stay out of each other’s business for the rest of their lives.

How many days had it been? Vinson had changed his mind.

It seemed that you couldn’t completely trust the words of big shots.