Single Mom's Sweet Husband (Charlotte)

Chapter 408

"Change what? Change to love me? Change to like me? Or force yourself to do something that you don't like? Rick, don't make things difficult for yourself, and don't make things difficult for me too."

"Okay, then I won't change, and I won't love you either. When it's over, I'll let you go."

Kendall really couldn't understand. Rick had always been a clear-headed person. How could he be so lost when it came to love? She smiled bitterly and said, "Rick, I don't care who locked me up, whether it was Avery, Anne, Braden, or even Shane and Charlotte. Even if they send me to jail, I'm okay with that. But you know what? It can't be you."

"Kendall." Rick's expression turned cold. "I did make a mistake that night. I thought I didn't hurt you. But the truth is, everything I did to you was hurting you. I admit it, and I'm willing to pay the price for it. But can you give me another chance?"

"Having been with you for so long, if what I gave you were not chances, then what were they?" Kendall blinked. Her eyelashes, which looked like butterfly wings, were damp with a thin layer of tears. "Rick, don't you know how much I like you?"

Rick was silent. When he was about to say something, he saw a wound on her ankle. He leaned over, held her ankle, and lifted it to eye level. "What happened to your ankle? When did you hurt yourself?"

"Way back," she said, wanting to pull back her foot.

"Don't move. It seems like the wound is not completely healed. Did you scratch it?" © 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

Kendall did not speak and only pursed her lips.

Rick looked at her and shook his head with a sad smile. "You probably got injured when you left me or before you left me. To remind yourself how much you hate me and how big of a jerk I am. That's

why you keep scratching your wound, right?"

"Why are you still asking when you already know?" She turned her head away stubbornly. Her eyes were red and swollen. "Let me go."

"I'm sorry." Rick wrapped gauze around her wound after he sterilized it. "I've never expected things to turn out this way."

Rick finished his sentence with a hoarse voice. He then put her leg down and got up, his face pale. Because he had been squatting for too long, he felt dizzy and staggered a little. "Kendall, rest well in here. Don't go out for the time being. I won't come here, and I respect your decision. I will explain it to you after this."

Kendall pursed her lips.

"Charlotte and Shane will be here soon. If you have anything you want to ask, you can ask them."

Rick left the room in a hurry.

If Zayden's appearance was a heavy blow on him, then the wound on her ankle was a shame to him. He had never expected that one day he would force a woman who loved him deeply to harm herself and remember how much of a bastard he was. He had always thought that he could retain a perfect relationship with everyone. Even with Charlotte, he hadn't argued with her to the point where they wouldn't talk to each other.

But when it came to Kendall, he could still choose to hurt her again when she had risked everything for him.

He shouldn't have.

Charlotte and Shane rushed to Rick's house. Charlotte was startled when she saw the bodyguards that surrounded the house. She turned sideways and said, "Shane, the fishpeople aren't a big threat to Rick, are they? Isn't it a bit too much for him to do this?" "I'm afraid it's not because of the fishpeople."

Not because of the fishpeople...

Charlotte lifted her head thoughtfully. Suddenly, she thought of someone and said in surprise, "Is it because he went to look for Kendall and took her here? Then it makes sense that he called us over. Well, this is definitely not because of the fishpeople incident. It's because of Kendall and the Stevens Family."

"Yes." Shane nodded.

"But this has nothing to do with us. He should have looked for Avery instead." Charlotte couldn't help but sigh.

However, the thing was that no one had seen Avery for the past two days. Even Sheryl and Olive did not know where he was all day long.

When Rick saw the two of them coming, he got up from the chair and went to greet them. "Kendall is upstairs. I invited both of you here to tell her about the current situation. She wouldn't listen to me and kept wanting to go out."

"Rick, she wouldn't listen to you because you're Rick, not because of what happened to the Stevens Family." As a very sensible person, Charlotte brutally told him the truth.

"I know..." Rick sighed. "That's why I hope the two of you could come over." "I can help you calm Kendall down and let her stay here, and then? I hope you can think about this problem."

Charlotte said as she walked up the stairs.

Shane didn't go upstairs. He was different from Charlotte. Kendall had offended him before, so he would never help him. He would never forgive a person who had hurt his girl, even if his girl had already chosen to be a saint and forgive her.

Shane found a seat and sat down. Then, he took out a book as usual. Before he started to read, Rick sat down opposite of him.

Shane raised his eyebrows and put his book away. "It seems like you have something to tell me."

"What Lottie asked me just now, Kendall had also asked me the same thing before. You know Lottie the best. I want to know what exactly they meant?"

"Your attitude."

"My attitude?" Rick obviously did not expect those words from Shane.

"Your attitude towards women decides whether they will trust you or not."

Rick contemplated for a moment and instantly understood what Shane meant.

Shane was saying that what Kendall and Charlotte meant was not about how he should treat Kendall right. Rather, it was about how he should show her the side of him that she liked. The attitude she wanted was perhaps his affection, or perhaps something else.

But what kind of attitude did Kendall expect from him?

Rick eagerly searched his mind for an answer.

As soon as Charlotte went upstairs, she saw Kendall sitting in front of the French windows, staring at the scenery. She walked over to sit beside Kendall and said, "Rick sent me to talk to you."

"Lottie." Kendall looked at her helplessly. "You are too straightforward."

"So you should be straightforward with me too. Do you still love him?"

Kendall was silent for a while and slowly shook her head. But shortly after, she bit her lips and nodded reluctantly.

Charlotte couldn't help but laugh. She patted her head and said, "I can understand."

"You do?"

"Actually, Rick has always been very nice to you. If possible, give yourself a chance."

Not to give Rick a chance, but to give herself a chance. Kendall was a little confused. She blinked and asked in a soft voice, "What do you mean?"

Charlotte laughed and answered, "Give yourself a chance to pursue happiness. Apart from you, Rick doesn't have any other women by his side. It's not because he has someone else that he doesn't like you. He doesn't like you that much because, for so many years, no one has told him what love is. That's why he would avoid it without knowing."

"How do you know what happened..." Kendall was a little surprised.

"I don't know, but I think that's probably the case. After all, your problems are easy to guess."

Suddenly, Kendall was struck speechless. She didn't have the courage to say what happened that day...

However, she really wanted to listen to Charlotte's analysis.

After a multitude of considerations.

Kendall gritted her teeth and said, "I'll tell you what happened."

After Kendall finished her story, Charlotte couldn't even utter a single word. She was completely dumbfounded.

First, she didn't expect Kendall to take such a big risk. Second, she didn't expect Rick to be so heartless.

Neither of them was right nor wrong. Because if such a thing happened, it might go on forever...

If the same thing happened to her and Shane, she would have taken Sheryl to a foreign place, where even Anne couldn't find her.

All of a sudden, Charlotte's head started to ache.

After holding it in for a long time, she finally said.

"Rick, this guy..."