There was something undeniably sneaky about the whole situation
While on the phone, Charlotte kept stealing glances at Sean, worried he might suddenly say something. Her eyes warned him to stay quiet.
Sear gerely raised an eyebrow and gave her a half–smile, lounging against the table with a teasing glint in his eyes.
From the phone, Desmond’s voice came through loud and clear.
“Lottie, didn’t you land at six thirty? Why aren’t you home yet? Me Clark said you didn’t get in his car. Said you left with a friend. Are you still coming home for dinner?”
“I had a friend ask me to take on a couple of cases,” Charlotte replied calmly. “We were discussing the details. I just finished- heading home now.”
“Alright. Xena and I will wait for you.”
“Got it.”
The moment she hung up, Charlotte let out a breath of relief. That was close. She had nearly lost her composure.
“Why is he always so good at messing with my heart?” she thought.
He leaned lazily against the desk, watching her with a smirk. “Didn’t know little Lottie was still under such tight supervision. It’s barely seven, and you’ve already got a call to head home for dinner?”
Charlotte ignored his teasing, keeping a straight face. “I’m heading out. Have someone deliver the case files to the firm tomorrow.”
Sean didn’t respond. He simply stared at her quietly for a few seconds, unreadable.
Charlotte stood up and walked out.
Sean stayed where he was, watching her retreating figure.
The room around him felt cold and empty again.
The next morning at the firm, Charlotte walked into her office and immediately noticed five large boxes sitting neatly on the floor.
Two of them were the case files Sean had given her yesterday.
The other three? Very familiar.
They were the gifts he had tried to give her. One of them had already been opened–a gorgeous matte white crocodile leather handbag, unmistakably from a luxury label.
Charlotte frowned.
She had told Sean to send only the case files. She had definitely not agreed to receive the gifts.
Without hesitation, she picked up her phone and called him.
He answered almost instantly. “What’s wrong, Lottie?”
She didn’t waste time. “Take your gifts back. I really don’t need them.”
Sean’s voice turned cool. “I don’t take back gifts I’ve given. If you don’t want them, toss them.”
Charlotte was speechless.
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She knew how much that bag cost. It was at least a hundred grand Toss it?
Even if he had money to burn, this was ridiculous.
“I’ll have someone return them to you.”
“Don’t bother,” he said lazily. “It’s not like I can use them. If you send them back, I’ll just have to throw them away.”
Charlotte almost said, “Why don’t you give one to Megan, one to Lucinda, and the last one to whichever girl you’re chasing next?”
But she stopped herself.
It sounded way too jealous. And the last thing she wanted was to let him see she still cared.
She didn’t want to give him that satisfaction. The words caught at the back of her throat, but she swallowed them down.
Instead, she simply said, “Don’t send me anything again. It’s wasteful.”
“How is it a waste if it’s something for you?”
“I don’t want it.”
“Alright,” he said, calm as ever. “Then tell me what you do want, and I’ll get it for you.”
Charlotte sighed. “Sean, cut it out. You know exactly what I mean, I don’t want anything from you.”
There was silence on the other end.
“That’s all. Bye.” She ended the call.
In the end, she didn’t send the bags back.
Throwing out handbags worth over a hundred grand each? That would be criminal.
So she quietly tucked them away in the firm’s storage cabinet.
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