The Billionaire Who Stole My Heart

Chapter 846

Brittany managed a wry smile, “How have you been holding up lately?”

“Just peachy.”

Brittany had met Charles under serendipitous circumstances. He seemed like a free spirit, but underneath that facade was a highly competent man with an extensive network of information at his fingertips. Her trip to Craneville was spurred by a desire to delve deeper into the research institute’s mysteries.

“How’s the investigation going?” she asked.

“Hang tight,” he replied before standing up to leave.

Upon his return, Charles slid a stack of papers across the table towards her. “Based on what I’ve found so far, the family bankrolling the institute from the shadows is likely the Salters.”

“The Salter family?”

“Yes,” Charles nodded. “Pete Salter had a keen interest in these matters, but he’s been gone for years, and there’s nothing left to uncover.”

The documents echoed Charles’s words.

Brittany hadn’t expected the Salter family to be entangled in this affair.

“There’s something else,” Charles said with a sly grin. “I discovered that your mother, Ms) Russell, had visited Craneville before.”

“My mother?”

“Indeed.”

happens that Pete Salter was in town at the same time as

no known ties to the Salter family before she passed.”

Julie Russell-Dustin was once a socialite of Imperial City, but her connection to the Salters seemed coincidental

more to it, but without evidence, he kept his theories

leaving, he turned to Brittany, “The man with you

senior executive I’ve hired to help run the company,” Brittany clarified,

eyes before he spoke

soon. We’ll catch up

Brittany shed her defenses and the

and Landon got down

was eager

days of hammering out the details. On

invited everyone to unwind at a bar, and Landon joined them. By some stroke of fate, the

beats and applause filled the

behind the instruments, stood

enough to reveal a chiseled chest; his wet hair clung to his scalp, accentuating his

exuded a sense

in him shedding his shirt and moving