novelraw Chapter 821: Disastrous Trouble
Chapter 821: Disastrous Trouble
Charlotte lightly pressed her lips together and asked, "Have you bought the plane ticket?"
Robert Stephens looked at her expression, "What, you don’t want to leave?"
His tone was displeased, seemingly angered by her disobedience. Charlotte lowered her head, lacking the desire to argue with him.
She turned over, her back facing Robert, and stayed silent.
Robert clicked his tongue lightly, his voice filled with impatience. He stood at the door and warned, "Charlotte, make sure you obediently return to the United States tomorrow. If you dare run around the world again, be careful or I’ll break your legs!"
Listening to his hostile voice, Charlotte felt her heart grow colder and colder. She bit her lip and didn’t respond, her eyes already filled with tears.
She felt wronged.
But more than that, she felt unwilling.
Having come this far, she really didn’t want everything to go to waste.
The room was suffocating, the man came in and sat on the sofa, neither of them saying a word.
By evening, a nurse came in to administer another bottle of nutritional IV.
Robert came in with a takeout box, saying to her sitting on the bed, "Come eat."
Charlotte glanced at him, murmuring, "I don’t feel like eating."
The food Robert brought was naturally better than what she’d been eating for the past month, lavish and well-balanced, costing her a week’s food budget for just one meal.
Seeing him there made her stomach churn.
Watching her passive resistance, Robert’s expression also turned unpleasant.
He placed the takeout box on the dining table and walked out again.
Robert went to the corridor outside the hospital to smoke a cigarette.
The capital’s central hospital in this small country still bustled with noise even at dusk.
The streets were crowded, the cries of foreign peddlers making the city chaotic and unruly.
Having stayed in Chicago for a long time, he had some difficulty enduring such noise. He couldn’t understand how Charlotte managed to stay in this disordered, impoverished little place for over a month.
Even after he came to find her, she still refused to leave.
He thought he knew everything about Charlotte, but after Janet Madison made a panicked call, telling him everything that happened here, he realized his understanding of Charlotte was far too little.
Kidnapping the Madison family’s youngest daughter, self-harm, even death threats.
It was nothing short of rebellious outrage.
With such a serious incident, if he hadn’t suppressed it, she would have been taken away by the furious Madison family now.
And she still dared to put on airs with him here.
Robert stood by the window for more than an hour, calming his thoughts before stubbing out his cigarette and returning to the hospital room.
He thought, he needed to have a good talk with Charlotte about what she really wanted right now.
He wanted a wife who was gentle and obedient, not a woman who acted out, constantly argued with him, and ran away from home.
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He returned to the hospital room, only to find Charlotte was no longer there.
The food tray sent inside was still there, but her coat left on the sofa was gone.
In an instant, Robert realized what had happened and couldn’t help but curse, "Damn!"
She dare run away from him!
...
It was night.
Charlotte ran through the wind, wrapped in a thick coat, hurrying into the cold night.
She randomly hailed a taxi, hastily got in, and glanced back at the brightly lit hospital.
Robert hadn’t come after her; perhaps he still didn’t know she had escaped.
Squeezing her sweaty hands, Charlotte spoke to the driver in English, "I want to leave the city, as quickly as possible, please."