Single Mom's Sweet Husband (Charlotte) novel Chapter 220

"It's me." The person on the phone only said two words.

"Shane..." Charlotte's voice quivered.

Shane glanced at the little fellow who was playing in the ball pit at the playground. His eyes softened at the sight of that. "Let's have dinner together and tell me about the content of today's meeting."

Charlotte sniffed and said, "I don't want to see you."

"What's wrong?" He frowned slightly, sensing that something was wrong with her.

"I'm fine."

"How can you say that you're fine when you're crying? Give me your address."

Charlotte shook her head. Only after a while did she remember that they were on the phone, and he couldn't see her shaking her head.

She said, "I'm really fine."

"Come have dinner with me then."

"I'm really not in the mood for dinner today. How about tomorrow?" Charlotte's voice was hoarse, making her sound rather pathetic.

"Stay where you are."

Before Charlotte understood the meaning of this sentence, she heard Shane walking into the crowd, followed by Sheryl's voice.

After a short while, Shane hung up the phone.

It wasn't until then did Charlotte realize that the reason Shane didn't attend the partnership meeting today was that he was taking care of Sheryl?

He was absent because of Sheryl?

For some reason, Charlotte felt a shiver run down her spine.

Shane was already so devoted to Sheryl even before knowing that she was her daughter?

Charlotte decided to wait for Shane to come because she genuinely had no idea where she should go. After buying a cup of coffee, she just stayed in her car. In less than 20 minutes, a Maybach stopped in front of her car and honked at her.

She looked up.

Cole got out of the car to open the door of the backseat. Shane stepped out of the car with his slender and sturdy legs. His muscular and relaxed figure slowly emerged. A small and chubby girl who seemed to be asleep was lying on his shoulders.

Charlotte stared blankly at him as he walked closer and closer towards herself. It wasn't until he knocked on her glass window with his slender fingers that she came back to her senses and pressed a button to lower her window.

"Open the door."

"It's open."

Shane signaled Cole to open the door.

Cole respectfully opened the door of the driver's seat and bent over politely to open the door of the backseat for Charlotte and Shane. He then sat down on the driver's seat.

Before Charlotte could react, she was already sitting beside Shane.

"Your car..." she couldn't help but ask.

"Miss Charlotte, I'll come back and drive my car home," Cole explained.

Charlotte bit her lower lip and said, "Okay."

"Tell me, what happened?" Shane's gaze landed on Charlotte.

Her eyes were a little red, her hair was messy too, and her lips, bloodless.

This little woman definitely cried.

Charlotte shook her head. "It's not a big deal, just something personal."

"I don't think you want me to force you to confess in front of your daughter, do you?"

"You..." Charlotte glared at him. But the moment she made eye contact with him, she immediately gave in. She lowered her head and softly said, "Rick doesn't want me anymore."

There was a dead silence.

Cole didn't even dare to make a sound with his breathing.

"That's normal."

After a long time, Shane's voice finally rang out in the car.

Charlotte's eyes well up once again. "I'm embarrassed to blame you too because clearly, you have good intentions. It's just that I'm not really good at dealing with this kind of problem. It's all my fault. I'll apologize and make it up to him in a few days."

"He won't forgive you."

"Impossible. Rick loves me a lot. He..."

"That's only what you think."

Charlotte didn't look at him and just clenched her fists.

Halfway on the road, Sheryl woke up from her sleep. When she saw Charlotte, she immediately hugged her by her neck and talked about how Shane had spent the whole day with her. They went to the zoo and the megamall after returning to the city, where they played with softballs in the kid's playground.

Sheryl said that she had already told Shane a week ago that she wanted to go out and play today, and Shane promised her at that time. He even took her to buy some clothes yesterday.