The President's Accidental Wife

Chapter 1652

"I've been having trouble sleeping lately. Sometimes I even get woken by a nightmare immediately after I drift off. I keep having the same dream. In it you turn around and walk away without even a glance at me, leaving me gazing helplessly at your merciless receding back.

"I'm scared. I'm really very scared. That kind of fear is bone-deep. It makes me very uneasy...”

He spoke very slowly, enunciating each word, his face etched with dejection.

Grace stiffened momentarily and her eyes rested on him.

"Even I myself have no idea how it came to this. Grace, I..."

After saying that, Charlie did not know how to continue.

Considering how things had turned out, it seemed that he should tell her everything and try his best to have her change her mind, but he also felt there was nothing he could say that would make a difference.

He was a man, one with a fairly successful career, but in terms of love life, he didn't have a clue how he had been put in such a situation.

The look in Charlie's eyes flickered as his Adam's apple bobbed. There seemed to be something sparkling in his deep-set eyes. It was faint, but Grace could see it clearly.

If her guess was right, the glistening things in his eyes were tears.

Grace saw them. Her heart was hammering, her throat dry.

At this moment, she recalled something that he had once said.

"As a man, no matter how great the ordeal is, you have to endure it, because a man has no right to show weakness. There are many people behind you who rely on you.

"If you go soft, they'll lose the only one they can count on!"

Grace had never seen him like this. She had known him for such a long time, but this was her first time seeing him shed tears.

Beneath her gaze, Charlie felt his upset flooding over him in greater wavers, and he couldn't subdue it, no matter how hard he tried. He actually felt a sting in his eyes.

Before tears rolled down his cheeks, he turned around and said with feigned composure, "Wait here. I'll go downstairs and buy you some clothes."

Having finished speaking, he left without a backward glance.

Grace sat in her chair. There wasn't a shred of her usual casualness or indifference on her face, only indescribable somberness.

"Men do not shed tears easily," as the saying goes. When he pivoted around, she had distinctly seen tears sliding down his cheeks.

She hugged her knees, her whole body as rigid as her toes.

Before long, Charlie returned. His face was as handsome as always, its contours distinguished and soft. "I got you some clothes. Try them on."

All the clothes fitted her very well. Clearly, he was very familiar with her sizes.

After she dressed, it was time to punch out. The two of them went downstairs and sat into the car. Charlie drove her back to the hotel.

If the circumstances were different, Charlie would definitely talk non-stop, and even Grace wouldn't be able to silence him.

But on this occasion, things were very different. He didn’t utter a single word.

Grace didn't speak either. The mood in the car was subdued. Both of them kept silent.

Andrew, after opening the door, saw Grace's clothes and narrowed his eyes. "I remember very well this was not the outfit you wore when going out this morning. Is there something you're not telling me?"

Grace made no response. She just asked," Where's Eaton?"

The look on her face was rather uncharacteristic of her. That was obvious.

Charlie, instead of going inside as usual, nodded politely at Andrew and turned around.

"Why are you so polite to me today? And why do you look like a normal person?" Andrew stroked his smooth chin with his slim fingers. "Is there really something you’re keeping back from me?"

Meanwhile.

Shortly after Charlie returned to the Morgan family's villa, Bella showed up again. She stood right outside.

The very sight of her gave Mckenzie a headache. "Charlie, her mother just called. She said Bella's still suffering from a high fever and that we should cut her some slack." "Mom, we can't afford to be soft-hearted this time. Just go to sleep." Ccontent © exclusive by Nô/vel(D)ra/ma.Org.

Charlie's mood didn't seem to have improved today. He had dark circles under his eyes, and his face was sullen.

Unsurprisingly, Bella passed out again shortly afterward.

Charlie called his chauffeur and had both the chauffeur and his personal doctor send her home. He instructed the doctor to give Bella medical treatment on their way to her home.

Bella had thought that she would come around to find herself inside the Morgan family's villa, but unexpectedly, she was in her home. Looking at her mother, she asked with mixed surprise and delight, " Was it him who drove me back here?"

Feeling rather awkward, her mother just called Bella's name softly.

It was synonymous with a negative reply.

Blue veins throbbed visibly in Bella's temple. She couldn't understand why Charlie was still so merciless to her.

Previously, when she had been waiting outside the Morgan family's villa, he had refused to let her in. Earlier today, she had stood there with a high fever and even fainted at the front gate, but he had still refused to let her in!

"Bella, let it go..." her mother sighed deeply, sounding resigned.

But Bella clenched her teeth and said, "I can't be like this anymore. I can't..."

Her mother couldn't understand her words. She was baffled as to what Bella meant by ' I can't be like this anymore."

What on earth did she mean by that?

Mckenzie felt that her son had gone too far.

Bella was indeed annoyingly persistent, but she was seriously ill, and letting her into the house was no big deal, was it?

In the past Bella had done a lot for them, and Mckenzie felt obliged to go and check on Bella.

Of course, she didn't tell Charlie her plan beforehand, for she knew that if she told Charlie, he would definitely keep her from going there.

Having learned that Bella was at home, Mckenzie bought some gifts and went to the McCall family.

After opening the door, Bella's mother froze at the sight of Mckenzie standing outside, and then she hurriedly ushered Mckenzie into the house.

Bella also saw Mckenzie, looking hard done by.

Mckenzie patted Bella's hand.

"I know you feel wronged, but Charlie has made up his mind. Once he makes a decision, nobody can sway him. Besides, he and Grace have a child. You really should just let it go.

"It's very unwise to risk damaging your health. You know, there are countless men out there. He's not the only one. Good men can be found everywhere. It's totally unnecessary to be obsessed with him."

"But none of those men is him! There are many men out there, but there's only one Charlie Morgan!"

Mckenzie still couldn't get through to Bella.