Billionaire's Match

Chapter 955

This unspoken understanding between them gradually dissolved the faint weariness Charlotte had always felt amid the city’s bustle. The supermarket was clearly noisy and crowded, yet with Noah beside her-pushing the cart, silent but steady-she felt an unexpected sense of grounding, something warm and real, like life itself.

At the checkout, Charlotte insisted on paying. Noah didn’t argue; when he took the shopping bags, he simply lifted the two heaviest ones into his own hands.

“Let’s go,” he said. 1

Charlotte’s apartment was not far from the supermarket, just over a ten-minute walk. Night had deepened, and the streetlights stretched their shadows long across the pavement, occasionally overlapping. The early autumn breeze carried a hint of coolness, sweeping away the lingering stuffiness from inside the store.

“This time… how long will you stay?” Charlotte tilted her head to look at him, finally asking the question that had been circling in her mind. His movements were always elusive, like the wind-arriving suddenly, leaving just as unpredictably.

Noah kept his eyes ahead, his stride calm and steady. “Depends. I have an old friend in Goldmont City I might need to see. And a few… other matters to take care of.”

neither

heart settled for a moment-then lifted again. An

was far removed from her ordinary life;

elevator rose smoothly, the confined space holding only the two of them. Charlotte could

chasing away the night’s chill. The apartment was small but tidy and cozy, with several green

her shoes, a hint of nervousness slipping into her voice. It was the first time she had brought a man back to her

passing over the small, lived-in details before settling on the fabric sofa in the living room, which looked comfortably inviting. He set the shopping bags on the dining table but didn’t sit

kitchen’s over there?” he

Charlotte

rolled up the sleeves

meat.