Chapter 411
"I don''t understand. What on earth do you think of me? I don''t have an intimate rtionship with you
and I''m not your friend. I don''t understand. Why didn''t you treat me like this when you were dating
me?"
"Do you want to go with me or are you testing me?"
"I..." Kendall choked on her words.
Rick smiled and approached her. He opened her arms wide and said, "Should I say, ''Kendall,
wee back. Would you please continue to care about me?"''
Kendall''s nose twitched. She mumbled, "Who cares about you? Who wants toe back?"
"Don''t you want it?" Rick took another step forward and said. "You''ve clearly seen through me. Don''t
you want to give yourself a chance to change?"
He couldn''t fall for her, but perhaps she had a way to do it?
He originally wanted to leave and hide from her for a few days so that he and she could think more
clearly. But he did not expect that she was more courageous than he had imagined. If she could say
that she wanted to go with him in such a situation, then he also wanted to keep her by his side and
find some light in this pointless life.
Kendall looked at his arms, hesitated for a moment, then moved forward and hugged him. "Let me
say it first, I haven''t forgiven you, and I don''t want to be your girlfriend. I just think you are too
pitiful."
"Okay." Rick kissed her between her eyebrows. "Kendall, I''ve been waiting for you all the time.
Other than you, there may be no one else in the world who can make me so troubled."
"I know. I made you troubled. I shouldn''t have done it."
"No." Rick''s lips traveled downward. "I want to prove that I don''t hate you, Kendall."
Rick had always been good at flirting. Kendall was immediately intoxicated in his embrace. She
wanted to melt into his arms. However, Rick spoke up again. "But now, we can''t do anything. You''re
still hurt. Kendall, believe me that I don''t hate you. I just didn''t think about it properly that day. I
wasn''t ready. I hate others forcing me to make a decision."
"I''m sorry, I had a problem that day too..." she said in a small voice.
"I know that you have suffered a lot by my side. I won''t let you suffer in the future."
Kendall sighed.
She did not forgive him.
How did she end up in his arms again?
Perhaps, it was really her destiny that she liked Rick.
Charlotte found out about Rick and Kendall early in the morning on the same day.
She handed the phone to Shane and said, "I really didn''t expect Rick to be so slow. It took so many
days for him to finally settle Kendall. It''s good that they have reconciled. This way, we don''t have to
worry that Kendall will be caught by the Stevens family."
"Alright, how''s the Stevens family situation?" Shane didn''t care about gossip at all.
It didn''t matter to Shane who Rick was with. It would be fine as long as it was not Charlotte.
"It''s not going very well. It''s more difficult to deal with than we expected. Their overseas branch
retaliated against the Jane Corporation. We miscalcted..." Charlotte sighed. "I didn''t expect
Rnd to discover that Rick and Avery were partners. I don''t know where they found out about
this." "It doesn''t matter. Losing the Jane Corporation is a good thing." "After the Jane Corporation is
lost, Rick should have more free time. It''s indeed a good thing for him that the domestic branch can
come out independently without being sucked in. But it''s not good for him after all."
"He still cares about his reputation?"
That was true.
Rick no longer needed his reputation.
Charlotte hesitated for a moment, then finally opened her mouth. "Shane, there is something else."
"What''s that?"
"If the Jane Corporation is lost, should we help Rick?"
"No."
"Why is that?"
"If Rick needed it, he would have asked for it earlier and wouldn''t have waited until now."
Although Charlotte did not quite understand the logic behind it, it was indeed a little difficult for her
to divert her attention to help Rick. After all, there was still the matter regarding the fishpeople and
Christopher.
Charlotte continued to work. She yawned a few times but didn''t stop. Shane grabbed her hand and
said, "Go to sleep." "I only have a bit more to finish."
"I''ll do it."
"Him?" Charlotte thought.
Charlotte was momentarily stunned. Only then did she remember that the people around her were
much more capable than her in handling official matters. She handed theputer over to him and
leaned on his shoulder, "Then you can handle it. I''ll rest here. When you''re done, we''ll go and rest
together."
Shane nodded and started tapping on the keyboard. In a short while, hepleted the document.
The two of them returned to the bedroom and Charlotte went to take a bath first. As soon as she
finished washing and stood in front of the mirror, a message popped up on her phone. She frowned
and clicked on it.
"I am a worker you took care of. I have been working in a factory nearby for the past two days. I
heard that there was a murder case in a ce where you have been to before. I felt that this matter
was strange and asked a local friend. They said that the deceased was an old woman in her 80s
and a member of the Fuller family. She did not return to Hartsville as the others said. I don''t know if
this matter is helpful to you or not."
"I don''t quite understand. Are you saying that Mrs. Fuller Senior is dead?"
"I didn''t say anything about it, and I didn''t see anything anyway. It was someone else who said it. Do
you need to know about it?"
Charlotte was very surprised. After all, Mrs. Fuller Senior had sent gifts to Sheryl and Olive only a
few days ago. The two children were having quite a good time. If Mrs. Fuller Senior had died then
were the gifts sent by a ghost?
Moreover, if Mrs. Fuller Senior died, then Shane would have held arge funeral for her. How was it
possible that she didn''t even get news about it?
"Do you have time? Can we meet?" Charlotte sent him a message.
"Yes, I''ll call my friends too. Can we have lunch together tomorrow afternoon?"
Charlotte agreed and dried her hair. She left the bathroom and went back to bed to sleep.
The next day.
Charlotte didn''t go to the office. Instead, she stuck a Post-It to herputer to tell Shane that she
had gone out and asked him to deal with thepany''s affairs.
After leaving the house, Charlotte went to the restaurant that she had agreed on with the other
party.
This restaurant was very popr recently, which dispelled a lot of Charlotte''s worries.
She came to the reserved table and saw two uniformed workers sitting there. She sat down. "Are
you Riley Francis?"
"That''s me." A man wearing a khaki uniform jacket reached out his hand. "Mr. Emerson, it''s me who
asked you here."
"Well, why don''t we eat first? Or we can talk while eating. You must be hungry."
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"Of course," Riley said with a simple and honest smile. "Ms. Emerson, we have to thank you for
what happened before. If it weren''t for you, so many people would have died in the rainstorm. Many
people survived to help their families. Now their families are better, they can die in peace."
Charlotte lowered her head. There was a slight sorrow in her eyes. "After all, it''s a human life."
The people she talked to were good men. They struggled for their families and lived for their
children. However, the rainstorm and rockslide destroyed all hope.
Sometimes, life was really unfair.
"Yes, so we don''t do that now. You gave us so much money that many of us have been transferred
to a safer construction site." "That''s great. You cane to me if you run into any trouble on the
new construction site in the future."
"That''s great."
"Do you have a lot of money?"
Another person suddenly opened his mouth to ask.
Charlotte looked at him and narrowed her eyes, "That depends on what it''s for."