The Cherished Wife

Chapter 113

“Why are you looking at me like that?” Charles asked, catching Noelle’s gaze.

Noelle quickly looked away, feeling a bit awkward. “Oh… Rowena mentioned she wants to meet you soon.”

Charles stopped eating for a moment. Noelle, noticing his silence, felt a flutter of worry. Charles was not the kind of man whose time came cheap.

“Um… If you’re too busy, that’s totally fine. My friend just wanted to make sure I’m being taken care of. That’s all!” Noelle said, feeling a bit embarrassed. Charles just smiled and asked, “When?”

“Huh?” Noelle blinked, then quickly added, “Anytime, really. Whenever you’re free. I hope it’s not too much

trouble.”

“Not at all,” Charles replied, his eyes crinkling with a smile. “I’d be happy to meet your friend. It’s not a

bother at all.”

had not quite grasped her role in their relationship yet, which was why he had not introduced her to his friends. However, when he heard her call him ‘husband‘ to her friend Rowena over the phone today, he felt a

to her friend, he could not

by Charles’s tone. Was she the one in the wrong? “I’ll talk to Rowena, then. We can pick

gloominess he felt at the Hoffman family’s old house.

Noelle teased, “Look at you. You said you

flashed a grin.

and stood up to start clearing the dishes, but Charles reached out to

care of it!”

back, watching Charles as

upstairs, thinking she might have been making things too complicated. Even though she and Charles did not have strong feelings for each other yet, they were married and living together. They

Noelle got a message from Rowena. She shared the news, and Rowena’s voice came through excitedly. “Awesome, let’s plan another meet–up. Your hubby

moment.

him I want to eat at the fanciest restaurant in town and order the priciest dish they’ve got!”

laughed. “You and your big stomach!” she teased.