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.”

friends. However, when he heard her call him ‘husband‘ to her friend Rowena over the phone today, he felt a warm sense of pride. She was finally

to her friend, he could not help but feel

the wrong? “I’ll talk to Rowena, then. We can

from the gloominess he felt at the Hoffman family’s

teased, “Look at you. You said you

a grin. “It’s all mine,

lip and stood up to start clearing the dishes,

care of it!”

and stepped back, watching Charles as he busied

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 would spend a lot of time together.

room, 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 must be loaded if he’s giving you sports cars,

for a moment. “Yeah, he’s pretty

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

your big stomach!” she teased.