The man seemed to realize it too, but he didn’t feel apologetic. Nevertheless, he did try to explain in a soothing tone, “I thought Brendan would make you bite the bullet, so I took the risk and did whatever I could so that Brendan had no time to deal with you while I got someone to take you out. After all, I should be giving you something good in return for your work for me.”

Charlene wanted to laugh, but she appeared obedient when she replied, “When the incident happened, Brendan was indeed very disappointed in me. But because he still likes me, he temporarily let me stay in the mansion while trying to pour oil in troubled waters to protect me.”

Unpredictable emotion was hiding in the man’s eyes when he said, “You should have contacted us from the beginning so we could have stopped the release of those photos at the conference.”

Stopped? Weren’t they the ones who had released those photos? Now, they were turning the tables and pretending to be the good guys!

Charlene was so furio