A Contract Marriage After a ONS novel Chapter 334

Mark's eyes were as dark as ink that could not be washed away. He stared at Summer intently, as if his eyes would suck her in.

Summer was not afraid of him. She did not flinch, but looked him in the eyes. "If you are not answering my question, then let me answer it for you. You were busy with your lover and had no time for your daughter, weren't you? Or maybe you had even forgotten about the fact that you have a daughter."

"You should have completely forgotten her since you have forgotten. Why do you have to think about it four years later when you have forgotten so completely four years ago? Charlotte is a person, not an object that you may have at your beck and call and discard later."

Mark got up from his leather chair and walked slowly toward Summer. His dark, dangerous energy flowing inside him could send chills into people's bones.

But this chill did not bother Summer. She was standing her ground, staring at him, no less assertive than he was.

What she said was not wrong. So why should she avoid and fear him? 1

Charlotte was not a toy, nor an object. She was a living person, not something that he could squeeze in his hand and discard when he was done with it.

"There is one more question I don’t understand. What was on your mind when you took Charlotte away after four years?”

She lifted her head, her beautiful neck unfolding in front of him. She tried to guess. "Four years later, you suddenly saw your daughter had grown up, and it touched your heart. That was why you took her away, wasn't it?"

Mark remained silent, his black pupils catching her reflection.

"But the way I look at it, Mr. Valentine, is that you didn't have any feelings for Charlotte four years ago, but just used her as a bargaining chip for marriage. That was how Charlotte was born. It was okay that you didn't give me damn for the past three years. Charlotte might be your daughter, but she was born out of a mistake, not the daughter of a woman you are i n love with. So I have no reason, no responsibility, and no obligation to blame you because from your perspective, what you have done is entirely reasonable, and I can understand it. Now I only hope that your feelings for Charlotte will return to the way i t was four years ago, and pretend that the encounter i n Santabaca has never happened, and we will let everything go right back to where it started. So you shouldn’t disturb the life of Charlotte and I, and we will not interfere with yours. This is good for everyone, isn't it?"

He could live well without Charlotte for the past four years. So four years later, the life without Charlotte would not affect him much.

But she could not bear to lose Charlotte, without whom she would lose the focus of life, direction and motivation.

She raised Charlotte for four years right from when she was a baby until she could walk, run, jump, and call her Mommy. Not to mention she was so well-behaved and thoughtful.

She witnessed Charlotte's growth every step of the way. So how could she bear to let him take Charlotte away?

Those words flowed into Mark’s ears, word by word. His lips turned up, but the curvature lacked temperature, as if an icy wind whizzed through the dark night.

'Now I only hope that your feelings for Charlotte will return to the way it was four years ago, and pretend that the encounter in Santabaca has never happened before... we will not interfere with your life.’