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 the same time

known ties to the Salter family

a socialite of Imperial City, but her connection

but without evidence,

Brittany, “The man with you

to help run the company,” Brittany clarified,

light flickered in Charles’s eyes before he spoke again, “Alright, I’ll

City soon. We’ll catch

and the day’s

day, Brittany and Landon got

was

hammering out the details. On

everyone to unwind at a bar, and Landon joined them. By some stroke

filled

behind the instruments, stood a

to reveal a chiseled chest; his wet

lean, and exuded a

churned with excitement, culminating in him shedding his shirt