Chapter 99

“What took you so long?” Charlotte asked Xavier when he returned by midnight. “I kept calling but my calls weren’t going through.”

“I’m really sorry,” he apologized with a broken voice. He wasn’t apologizing for staying out late alone, he was apologizing for all she had gone through in the hands of his nephew.

Charlotte’s expression softened when he apologized and looked at her like that.

“I didn’t mean to make you feel bad,” she said, hugging him and pressing her face into his chest. “I was just worried sick. You don’t have to feel bad. It’s okay. I missed you, that’s all.”

Xavier hugged her back, holding her so close to him and shut his eyes. They stayed in that position for a while, and she maintained the hug even though she didn’t know what had triggered it.

She had suffered so much, even more than she knew. She had been practically poisoned by Jonah whose selfishness had robbed her of her ability to ever carry a child.

“Is everything okay?” She asked, breaking the hug a lit