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.”

so happens that Pete Salter was in town at

no known ties to the Salter family before she

but

was more to it, but without

leaving, he turned to Brittany, “The man with

the company,” Brittany clarified, noting the

Charles’s eyes before

We’ll catch up there.”

her hotel, Brittany shed her defenses and the day’s dust, falling into a

following day, Brittany and Landon got down to business.

other party was eager

days of hammering out the details. On Thursday, the contract was signed.

them. By some stroke of

beats and applause filled the air

behind the instruments,

was unbuttoned enough to reveal a chiseled chest; his wet

pale, lean, and exuded a sense of

atmosphere churned with excitement, culminating in him shedding his shirt and moving rhythmically with