Charlie hung up with his eyebrows deeply furrowed.
His informant reported to him that a group of gangsters who had apparent connections with Clark had been spotted in G City recently, which meant that there was a good chance they had already made contact.
Was Clark planning to introduce his drug trafficking operations into G City?
At the thought of that possibility, Charlie couldn't help himself from being worried.
If Clark really turned out being an untrustworthy man, Charlie was adamant that he should not be allowed to continue being the leader of Dark Night Group anymore!
"Father!"
Amanda strutted in wearing a smile on her face, holding in her hands a bowl of soup she had requested the maid to prepare.
"It's kind of cold right now. Have some soup, please."
Amanda placed the soup in front of him on his desk and playfully urged her father to enjoy the soup. The steam rising up from the soup brought the study some much-needed warmth.
"Thank you, my dear. I appreciate it, I really do. But please keep yourself out of the kitchen, okay? There's no need for you to worry about what meals the maids are going to make. I don't want you to get your hands burnt."
But from the expression in Amanda's eyes,
capable of playing the
her head to avoid looking Charlie straight in the eyes, Amanda suddenly moved her right hand toward the left side of
broke Charlie's heart every single time he saw his
best doctor in the world for you, and I'll have you treated then. The day will come when you would be able to play the piano
fatherly love and so much tenderness, Charlie tried
won't be able to play the piano ever
feel grief-stricken, and at the
all because of that stupid Rufus! Where did he get the gall to do something like that to you!? If it weren't for you
with intense fury, so Amanda rushed to his side
nothing we can do to change it. Now he
reacting like that and being so considerate, Charlie experienced even greater sorrow. He remembered how Rufus put on an act and pretended to be engaged with her when she was still much too unstable. That was the cold hard truth. No matter how grandiose and ambitious the engagement ceremony had been, everything was just
did Rufus turn down his daughter? What was
engagement party. What is he doing here in G City? I was actually
shivers down her spine, but in spite of that, she was still able to muster up the strength to ask her father
it was able to instantly get
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