Unknown Divorce Revelation Beyond Time (Charlene and Thorne) novel Chapter 536

But now, it was rush hour. As soon as she tried to book a ride, the app told her there were over two hundred people ahead of her in line.

Plus, it was the first day of school, and the streets were packed with parents dropping off their kids. Traffic everywhere was a mess.

Seeing this, Charlene stopped in her tracks.

Thorne noticed she wasn’t following and turned back. “What’s wrong?”

Charlene hesitated. “…Nothing.”

In the end, she got into Thorne’s car after all.

Once inside, Thorne turned as if to say something to her, but before he could speak, his phone rang.

“Sorry, I need to take this,” he said.

“Go ahead,” Charlene replied, her tone casual.

The call was clearly international—he spoke entirely in a foreign language.

From the conversation, Charlene gathered that Thorne was supposed to make a trip to Goldland soon. He told the person on the other end that he had urgent matters to handle and would be arriving a couple days later than planned.

The call went on for quite a while.

It wasn’t until the car was nearly at PrimeStar that Thorne finally hung up.

He looked as though he wanted to say something, but before he could, Charlene glanced out the window and spoke first. “Could you have the driver pull over up ahead? I’ll walk the rest of the way.”

Thorne caught her meaning. He looked at her, but didn’t argue, simply told the driver to stop as she’d asked.

The car stopped about two or three hundred meters from PrimeStar’s building.

Charlene got out. Before closing the door, she offered a polite, “Thank you.”

Thorne gave a faint smile. “No problem.”

She caught that smile, said nothing more, and walked away.

Elsewhere—

“So your mom rode in your dad’s car to school?”

“Uh-huh.”

Vesta’s smile faded further, and she fell silent.

The truth was, when Jasmine asked Charlene to take her to school on the first day, Vesta hadn’t insisted on coming too—not because she didn’t want to, but because she wanted to see whether Thorne would use the opportunity to get close to Charlene.

And, as she suspected, Thorne did just that…

So Thorne and Charlene…

The thought made Vesta clench her fist, her chest tightening.

She chatted with Jasmine for a little longer, then found an excuse to end the call.

As soon as she hung up, the smile vanished from her face.