Single Mom's Sweet Husband (Charlotte)

Rick was shocked. He immediately opened the car door and walked towards Kendall. Kendall was sitting on the steps, crying. She did not notice him walking over. When she regained her senses, she was already tightly wrapped in his embrace.

"Are you stupid?" His tone was soft. He placed his lips at the corner of her forehead and said, "Kendall, let's not break up, okay?"

"I won't go back to the Stevens Family. No one there likes me anyway." She whispered, "You don't have to worry about me betraying you guys because I can't even remember what you guys have said. Rick, you don't have to force yourself to like me. Those things that you're worried about won't happen, so you don't have to ask me to stay because of that."

"Have you really decided? Even if I want you to stay, you wouldn't..."

Kendall directly interrupted him, "I don't want to listen. I don't want to listen, Rick. Please stop talking. I can forget about what happened last night if I leave you. If I stay with you, I'll have to convince myself that you will like me. You were just angered by my impulsiveness."

"Kendall, I apologize for what happened last night."

"And?"

Rick was speechless.

Yes, he could apologize and make up for it, and?

He still had no feelings for her, and he was still wasting a lot of time searching for their nonexistent eternity.

"Rick, I don't think it's possible for us in this lifetime. But I would like to be your sister in my next life. Then, I can quarrel with you without worrying if you'll hate me. Even if you really hate me, I will still force you to like me because I'm your sister," Kendall said and kissed Rick on the lips. "I'll go first."

She stood up unsteadily and walked away while crying.

Rick took a deep breath and clenched his fists. He got up, looked at her back, and said in a hoarse voice, "Where are you going? I'll drive you there."

Not only did Kendall not turn around, but she also didn't stop walking and continued forward.

"Kendall."

He called her name.

She still kept walking.

Rick ran up to her and grabbed her wrist.

"Kendall."

Kendall froze for a moment, but then she shook off his hand. This time, she didn't cry. Because her legs were still hurting, she hopped a few times when she walked away, just like the first time she went to look for him at his company. Her ankles were scraped when she fell, so her posture was a little unusual.

You see.

Rick asked her to stay, walked up to grab her hand, and said that he would drive her, but he didn't even notice that she was injured.

He kept saying that as long as she stayed with him, he would give her everything. But he didn't even know where she was injured.

"Don't do yourself wrong," she said in her head.

As Kendall thought about that, she started to smile.

Watching her walk away, Rick's heart ached. He slowly walked towards his car and got into it. He took out his phone and looked at the dot on the map as it moved farther and farther away from him. Finally, it stopped at the subway entrance.

Kendall's social circle was extremely small. Where could she go?

When Rick returned to Avery's villa, Peter had already discovered the direct clue proving that it was Christopher who had gathered the fishpeople so that they could acquire more benefits and resources through this method.

"Vo, did you lose your tail?" When Avery saw that Rick had returned alone, he arched his eyebrows and said," I didn't even believe Charlotte when she told me that Kendall had broken up with you. Why? Did it finally dawn on her that she doesn't need a scumbag like you?"

Rick silently returned to his seat and sat down. "Now that we finally have a conclusion, just tell me what you need me to do. Jane Corporation and I will give everything we've got."

"Nothing much. I just want you to schedule a meeting with Caleb. However, judging from the current situation, it's a little difficult. So, I plan to get Braden to do it. You don't have to be there on that day. Of course, I won't go either. Charlotte and Shane will take care of the rest."

"Ask Caleb to deal with Christopher?" Rick asked.

"Of course we're going to finish the Stevens Family first so that we can deal with Christopher later. Hence, you'd better keep an eye on your tail."

Tail.

Rick took out his phone.

The red dot on the screen had disappeared.

He had asked someone to look into it on his way here. Kendall had sold her phone cheaply to a store owner and bought a new phone, as well as a new phone card afterward. Moreover, she did not even buy it with her name. And because it was a random phone card, even the store owner didn't know her exact phone number.

It seemed like she was really determined to leave him.

Rick smiled bitterly and said, "Does it have anything to do with me even if she's dead now?"

"Are you really willing to let her go?"

"Do you not know who's the one who got dumped?"

"It was true that she dumped you, but it's not because she doesn't love you." Avery found it funny. "You couldn't bring her back because you don't love her at all. You know this better than anyone else." Irritated, Rick ruffled his hair and said, "If there's nothing else, I'll go back and rest first."

"All right."

Avery patted him on the shoulder and said, "Think carefully. If you really want to find her, will it be that difficult?"

Rick kept thinking about whether he should look for Kendall on the way home.

Avery was right. It was really easy for him to find Kendall.

But what was the point of that?

Nothing.

The plan to finish the Stevens Family came ahead of schedule.

It was probably because they were really afraid that Kendall would leak their plan. Rick would receive messages from Avery every day, telling him that they were in action. When he saw that the Stevens Family's resources were decreasing little by little, he thought that Kendall would call him, but she did not. After he heard that the Stevens Family had announced the end of all their local business, she still did not call him.

When Rick finished his meeting, he went back to his office as usual. As soon as he sat down, he received a message from his assistant.

The Stevens Family was done.

Avery was under arrest.

"What happened? Why did it happen so fast?" Rick immediately shot up from his seat. Why did he know nothing about this?

"We just received the news too. It seems like Avery has stabbed Caleb, and Caleb is still under rescue now. But the Stevens Family has declared bankruptcy. Miss Kendall fainted because she was too shocked. She is still in the hospital now..."

"Which hospital?"

The assistant quickly told him the address.

Rick picked up the car keys and rushed out of the office without faltering.

Along the way, he kept thinking about what he would say when he met her. He could either apologize to her or ask her where she had been recently, or...

Until he arrived at the front of the ward.

Kendall was lying on the bed. She looked rather pale and weary, not as energetic as she used to be.

Beside him, a guy was walking back and forth, but she didn't even spare a glance at him. Rick hesitated. Instead of pushing open the door in a hurry, he just stood outside. "Sis-in-law, can you just eat something?" The guy, who was seemingly in his early twenties, was feeding fruit to her.

"I'm not hungry." "If you don't eat, how can I explain it to boss? Boss said I would need to feed you no matter what."

Kendall was silent.

The guy begged her, "Please, eat a little. If boss comes in and sees that you aren't eating anything, I will be shredded into pieces. Sis-in-law, I beg of you."

Just as Kendall was about to speak, out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of the person she was most familiar with.

She looked at him in shock.

And he was also looking at her.

She opened her mouth, wanting to call out his name, but she held back. Then she turned her head away as if she had never seen him. "Where's your boss?"

"He went to see your brother. He'll be back soon. He..."

Before the guy could finish, the ward door was opened.

Kendall looked over.

Rick was standing beside a tall and sturdy man. They seemed close and were talking and laughing as they walked inside.

"How are you feeling?"

Rick walked to her side and held her hand.

Kendall froze in disbelief at the sight of Rick's smile.