Mr. Charles's Hidden Wife novel Chapter 195

Howell immediately piped up in a bold manner, "I was doing it for-"

Henson interrupted him before he could even finish. "I don't care who you're doing this for, just know that I will never ever forgive you again if you save such a person like her in the future, you hear me? Ugh, stop talking and go over to held your lecturer up. You better come home with me when you reach the ground floor," he commanded.

A flurry of discussions instantly erupted from the crowd afterwards.

"Wait, so Howell is actually from the Charles family?" one asked.

"Ah, so that's why Master Henson was so anxious, it was because he wanted to save his own brother," another said.

"Why would people even say that the Charles' Brothers aren't on good terms? They look just fine to me," one commented.

"Don't take the rumours to heart," another whispered.

Howell suddenly came to a realisation.

He realised that the reason his brother had silenced him was because he didn't want him accidentally saying things he shouldn't have, 

and that his brother did so also to protect Sister Wendy from getting shoved into the limelight. So, this was the real reason he'd sold his brother out.

Why was it that he deemed his wife more important over his own brother's personal privacy?

He was literally enforcing the trope of neglecting his own flesh and blood for his lover.

This caused him to pout in frustration. It was so unfair. He was the one who'd clearly saved his brother's wife, so why was it that he had to take the fall for everything in the end?!

Such injustice!

He later merely obliged and walked over to Wendy's side to prop her up. "Are you alright, Miss Evans?" he asked.

As soon as she got up on her feet, she crumbled back onto the floor.

After all, she just had almost died, so it was only natural that she was still reeling from the whole ordeal.

"My heart's just beating a lot faster than usual. No biggie," she muttered through shaky breath. 

After a while, she spun around and walked over to Tracy's side. 

"You should be happy that you saw him for who he really was before you graduated. I can't even begin to imagine how you'd feel if you got married and had kids after you graduated, only for him to say that he'd already found someone else and that she was his true love all along. I fear that you and your kids would be even more miserable if that were to happen.

"Look, literally any man can make promises about the future like that. It's so easy to promise this and that, but so hard to fulfill all of them, you know. So, remind yourself not to be a fool and get caught up in other people's words so easily next time. Now that you've got a taste of death, do you still feel that you should be responsible for this piece of jerk?" Wendy probed.

Tracy then looked up at her with tears streaming down her face. "I'm so, so sorry for what happened just now, Miss Evans... and thank you," she sobbed.

Wendy didn't say anything and merely turned around to face Linda.

Linda gave her a nod and said, "You should get some rest. I can handle the rest from here on," she assured her. 

With that, Wendy tailed behind both of the Charles siblings to follow them downstairs.