“So is it true?” Joshua was seldom so nosy. Looking at his brother and sister, he wanted to know if the rumour was true.
Amanda satisfied him. “Yes. He had a crush on Mom before.”
“He should be quite obsessed in love. My parents said he has no children. When he married his current wife, it wasn’t because he loved her.” After finishing her words, Bonnie cast Charles a glance in secret. Although time had changed his handsome face in his youth, she still could tell that he must be quite good-looking before.
He also emanated a pleasant aura.
“Is he always sitting on the wheelchair?” Joshua knew the least about Charles among them, so he always asked the shallowest questions.
“Yeah,” Bonnie answered him.
Joshua looked at her. “Why do you know everything?”
“I heard it from my parents,” Bonnie answered.
“What else have your parents told you? Tell me all about it,” Joshua said.
Bonnie shook her head and said, “Nothing else.” Then she added, “He’s not a bad man.”
“Oops, how did you?” Joshua would pinch her cheek if they were not in the mourning hall. How could she not tell him anything about it?
“Did your parents say that as well?” he cast her a glance.
“Nah. I just feel so.”
Bonnie said, “A man could love a woman for several decades. How bad could this kind of man be?”
Joshua found that he couldn’t retort to her.
After a long while, he uttered, “Obsessing in love doesn’t mean he has good character.”
“Why? Do you dislike him?” Bonnie raised her eyebrows.
Joshua was different from Andrew and Amanda. He didn’t know Charles at all. After he got to know that Charles had a crush on his mother when they were young and he still loved her in the past decades, Joshua believed that Charles must be the rival in love for Matthew.
If his mother had chosen Charles back then, Joshua wondered if he could still be born in this world.
Standing in his father’s shoes, he couldn’t like Charles.
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: Convenient Marriage: Mr. Nelson's Love Trap