Mr. Charles's Hidden Wife novel Chapter 175

Seeing the shock look on Wendy's face, Henson pinched the tip of her nose. "Weren't you about to take a nap?"

"Get out," she huffed and immediately turned away from him. 

"Why? I want a nap too," he said.

"I refuse to get involved with a man who belongs to Julia. Get out," she insisted.

"Are you angry?" he asked, his gaze pointing upward. 

"Do you need me to escort you out?" she asked, annoyed. 

He looked shocked. Was she actually angry at him right now?

"You're such a petty woman. Weren't you the one who started all this? I was just playing along, so how come you're the one who got angry first?" he asked.

After scoffing at him, she pulled the covers over herself and decided to ignore him for now.

In response, he hopped onto the bed and hugged her from behind.

The more she struggled, the tighter he held onto her. 

"Let go of me!" she hissed.

"Never," he replied.

"Henson, you meanie! Don't you dare kiss me," she ordered.

He kissed the back of her head instead. "Such a prickly woman. She's still this explosive when getting a kiss from her boyfriend," he replied.

"Go look for Julia then. Doesn't she want to get engaged to you? She should be your girlfriend instead," she scoffed.

He then got up from the bed to get to her side of the bed. He then looked at her with a loving expression on his face. "Fine, fine, I was in the wrong just now. I will never be engaged to her. I'll have to teach her a lesson since she's a Nicholson. I will never, ever marry her in my lifetime, so don't worry. The only person I want to marry is you," he assured her

and pulled her into his arms. "Hear my heartbeat, hear how fast it beats for you. We might've known each other for a long time now, but whenever I lay my eyes on you, my heart still races. Tell me, why should I marry a woman who once went through plastic surgery when I can marry the woman who makes my heart skip a beat every time I see her?" he asked.

Her face flushed crimson after hearing that. The way he said it was so smooth, it was as if his mouth was made up of sweet, sweet honey. 

But regardless of how smooth he was, she still recalled what Daisy had told her just now.

She bit her lip. "Why do the Charles hate the Nicholson's so much?" she asked after a long moment of hesitation.

He fell silent.

After not speaking for a long while, he ruffled her hair and said, "Let's not dwell on such dreary topics. Didn't you say you were tired? You should take a short nap then, I'll nap with you too," 

Her breathing started becoming more laboured.

He kept saying that he loved her more and more, 

but it was obvious that the love he'd stored up for her couldn't even compare to the love he still had for Daisy during his youth.

So this was why he'd never share his secrets with her. 

Just the thought of it was enough to fill her heart with a sense of unease.

After a busy week at work, the week was slowly nearing its end.

When she arrived at the cafeteria for lunch on Friday afternoon, she noticed that the hall was unusually empty.

Correction, the hall was lacking in female staff.

She relayed her confusion to Linda. "Why are there so little people in the cafeteria today?" she asked.

"All the single lady staff under the age of thirty have started preparing themselves," Linda whispered in reply.

After giving her words some thought, Wendy asked incredulously, "You can't possibly mean they're currently preparing for Mr. Charles' lecture later in the afternoon,"

"What else can they prepare for?" Linda replied and laughed. "I bet our campus is going to be livelier today than it was during the university's anniversary," 

Wendy shook her head and giggled along. "I can already picture the scene in the multimedia classroom later. It'd probably look like a shopping mall on Black Friday," she joked.

Linda giggled as well. "Well, do you plan to go later?" she asked.

"Sure, why not? I'm curious to hear what Mr. Charles has to say," Wendy answered amusedly.

Linda shrugged her shoulders: "How nice. I, too, want to go and have a look. Let's go together," Linda said excitedly after shrugging.

"Sure, we can head back to our office to rest for a bit after lunch then head there together," Wendy suggested.

After a short nap on her desk, Wendy woke up and noticed that Carmen and Cael hadn't yet returned to the office. 

"Huh? Why aren't Carmen and Cael back yet?" she asked, dumbfounded.