Single Mom's Sweet Husband (Charlotte) novel Chapter 216

Charlotte shook her head. "I'm older than you anyways."

"But I thought that women care a lot about who's older or younger between each other, especially for a rival like me. Don't you feel self-conscious at all?"

She did.

To get along with this woman, you either had to love to pretend or behave as if you were born stupid.

Charlotte said helplessly, "I already told you that I don't see you as a rival."

"That means you don't love Rick."

"Kendall, if you can make Rick happy and he's willing to give me up to be with you, I won't complain. Maybe you were right, my feelings for Rick are still not enough to be called love. I just...don't want him to get hurt." Charlotte lowered her gaze.

In her heart, to love and not to love were actually not that important anymore.

She was only thinking about how to create profit for her company and speed up the process of retaking Emerson Corporation so that Elaine can pay for what she deserved to pay.

As for the other reason.

She honestly didn't want to think about it, nor did she dare to think about it.

Kendall looked at the woman beside her and suddenly reached out to hold her arm. "There's no such thing as to hope that someone doesn't get hurt or not, there's only to love or not to love. If you love someone, you won't ever think of letting go, even if both of you were deeply scarred."

For some reason, Shane's face appeared in her mind. She shuddered and shook her head forcefully.

"You're thinking about someone, aren't you?"

"I..."

"I want to tell Rick that you're being unfaithful to him," Kendall lowered her guard in front of Charlotte and playfully said to her like a child.

Feeling helpless, she was about to clarify that she wasn't being disloyal to Rick but she thought that it could only be said after she had married Rick. Charlotte had already restrained her feelings for Shane and even tried her best to stop seeing him. All of a sudden, her phone rang.

She took out her phone and was slightly surprised to see the word 'Rick'. Then she picked it up and said, "Rick?" "I heard that Kendall went to see you?" His tone was a bit cold.

"Yes, I was planning to bring her over to see you. She's still quite worried about you," explained Charlotte.

"Bring her over to see me... What am I to you, Charlotte?"

"What's wrong?"

"Whatever."

Rick straightaway hung up the phone.

Charlotte looked at Kendall in confusion. "Rick called me. I said I wanted to bring you over to see him. Then, he asked me what he means to me in a furious tone. What is going on with him? "

"It's so pitiful for Rick to like you." Kendall sighed.

"What?"

"He must have called to explain that he had nothing to do with me and wanted you not to listen to whatever I said. However, you immediately said that you wanted to take me there. How can he not be angry?"

Did it mean that being jealous should have been her normal reaction?

Charlotte said helplessly, "But isn't it better to have one more friend than to have another enemy?"

"In his eyes, I'm just a devil in human form. I'm the only one who bullies others and no one bullies me in return. He always just sees me as being mischievous and naughty. Never knowing how hard I tried to close the gap between us," said Kendall while biting her lips.

"I can see that. Obviously, you have a very soft and cute personality but had to pretend as if you were arrogant and cold when you first met me."

"Which one do you think suits me better?"

Charlotte thought for a second and said bluntly, "To be honest, you look just like how you are now in my expectation. An adorable little girl. Not a soulless businesswoman who tries to hide her true personality."

Kendall had never thought that her enemy would think that she looked cute.

"Don't think that I'll stop stealing Rick from you just because you called me cute."

"It's his honor to have you to adore him. And if a lover can be stolen, it was never meant to be called a lover," said Charlotte as she smiled.

For example...

Shane, who divorced her because of another woman.

Honestly, it was only because she didn't feel anything for him. So, to love or not, to get married or not, didn't matter so much.

She believed that Rick loved her, and that's why she wasn't afraid of Kendall at all. Right?

That was probably why she wasn't jealous.

In the hospital.

Charlotte took out the documents from a folder and handed them to Rick. "The incident about Blake may not be that simple."

"Did you come here just to tell me this?" Rick accepted the documents and placed them on the side table.

"Kendall is very cute. I will become good friends with her, and you don't have to worry about her hurting me. I wasn't jealous because I believe that you love me to a great extent and will never choose to be with her." Charlotte said word by word.

She believed that he loved her?

Rick said with a self-deprecating smile, "Do you carethat I love you?"

"We're already engaged, Rick. I'll try my best to do what a wife should do."

"Charlotte, I just want you to tell me, do I receive anything for loving you?"

Charlotte fell silent for a moment and slowly nodded. "I'm human too. I'll be touched and moved. Maybe those are still not enough to be love', but I can still try my best to fall in love with you, right?"

Rick turned away from her and said in a harsher tone, "You really don't care if I date Kendall?"

"I trust you."

"Do you really trust me or you just don't care?"

Charlotte felt extremely wronged. She gently held Rick's hand and said in a gentle voice, "It's not wrong for you to not believe me. You doubted me because I failed to make you feel secure in our relationship. I will try my best, Rick. Let's be good to each other, alright?"

The love of his life told him softly that she believed he wouldn't cheat on her and wanted them to stay together happily.

He should have jumped with joy.

However, what emerged in his mind was that man's face!

Those vicious, cold eyes and thin, bloodless lips...

Rick realized that all the times he said he didn't care about Charlotte's past and only wanted to be with her, they were all just empty words.

People wouldn't be able to overlook their past when they were involved in an intimate relationship.

The closer they were to one another, the more they would wonder if the other had felt the same way for their former partner in the past as well.

Rick closed her eyes and said in a calm tone, "I understand."