Spoiled By The CEO: Why The Wife Is Kinda Sweet? novel Chapter 281

Charlie frowned. “I’m looking for my son. What’s that have to do with the Peck and Stevenson families?”

Victoria paused, her eyes gleaming as she chuckled coldly. “Everybody knows you’re the favored child of both families. Didn’t the old lady of the Stevenson family just get you back to pamper you? Heh, if anything happened with you, they might resort to killing themselves.”

Charlie’s expression grew cool. “Is that so? And you’re hiding from me knowing that?”

“They treasure you, Charlie. I don’t. I’m warning you, don’t force my hand, or else…”

“Or else what?”

“I…”

Victoria fumed. How could this man be so hateful?

He knew she couldn’t do anything. He knew she had nothing left. Why was he still pressuring her to this point?

Charlie sneered.

“If I decided to come after this child, what can you use against me? Your half-baked techniques? Or are you going to tell your father and have me beaten up like four years ago?”

Victoria jolted.

Endless cold raced down her spine.

She looked at him icily. “You can certainly try.”

Charlie paused, then said, “But your father probably won’t treat me like this now, will he? After all, four years ago, I was just a poor kid with nothing, no match for his sweet daughter. But things are different now. I’m the heir to the Stevenson family. Think about it. If he knew that his daughter was pregnant with my seed, wouldn’t he be so happy he carts you over in a horse-drawn carriage?”

“Don’t go too far, Charlie Peck!”

“I’m just telling the truth, aren’t I?”

The two stood there as dead silence took over the still atmosphere.

Victoria glared at him with eyes full of hatred.

Chuckling, Charlie released her.

He turned around, lit a cigarette, and took a puff as he turned around to look at the woman on the sofa.

She hugged her arms to her chest, staring warily at him with none of her old softness. Her appearance was that of a spiny hedgehog. Anyone who approached, she stung.

He suddenly felt a bit irritated.

The moment he was sure that the child in her belly was his, he’d been overjoyed.

He’d never thought of separating mother and son.

But the way she looked now, isolating herself, made him feel an abrupt sense of discomfort.

What sort of person did she think he was? An unsightly beast?

She once chased after him with such gentle loving caresses, but now she wanted to run away with his kid? Hide from him for the rest of their lives?

What was this? Revenge?

Thinking of that, Charlie’s face sank.

Victoria, meanwhile, calmed down for a while and rearranged her thoughts.

She stood, looked at him calmly, and said lowly, “I’ve already apologized to you for what happened four years ago. I’ll admit that it was my fault that night. But I hadn’t meant it. So please, would you just let me go? We’re not suited for each other; wasn’t that what you said yourself back then? Why are you still tangling with me? I just want a quiet, peaceful life. If you treat this child like you don’t know he exists, it wouldn’t affect you. If you’re still worried, I can leave; run far away, such that you’ll never see him again and you won’t have to worry about him becoming a threat. Will that do?”

The man’s eyes grew completely cold.

He stared at the woman before him as if to freeze her solid.

“No threat to me? Heh! You think I buy that?”

Victoria started.

Charlie continued, “You don’t have to try to keep me with so much effort and use him as leverage. I know full well what you Kaurs are thinking. After all, we were together before. If you really want to, it’s not that I can’t budge.”

Victoria’s face went red with rage.

“What are you babbling about? Who’s trying to leverage you?”

“You’re trying your utmost to give birth to this child so you can save something to use against me, aren’t you?”

He stood and drew close. “You know how those bastards over at the Stevenson family aren’t all right with me, but can’t do anything to me. I hear you’re close with one of them? When did that start? Before I slept with you? Or after?”

Furious, Victoria raised her hand to hit him, but he held her in place.

She could only glare at him, steam emerging from her eyes.

“You can insult me, Charlie, but don’t bring up my father! You don’t have the right to speak of him like this!”

“I don’t have the right? Ha!”

His eyes grew ever colder as he maintained his bone-shattering grip on her wrist.

“Back then, he did everything he could to force me away because he thought my status was too low to be a match for a Kaur, didn’t he? Now that I’m the Stevenson heir, why would I not have the right to speak of him as I please?”

Victoria looked at him, thoroughly chilled.

“Fine, he was wrong on that count alone. But it’s been four years. Can’t you let it go?”

“I can’t!”

As he spoke, he seemed to realize that some deep part of his emotions had been revealed.

He changed his expression and flung her hand away from him, turning his back.

“Don’t think too much about it. I’m unwilling to let it go because I’ll never let anyone who’s humiliated me go. It’s got nothing to do with you.”

Victoria smiled sadly.

“I don’t need you to remind me.”

Of course it had nothing to do with her.

He hated her. Ever since she’d taken her father’s side and broken up with him back then, it was set in stone.

Looks like they were back where they’d started after the passage of time. She might have been the same person, but the old him was gone now.

Victoria felt a surge of fatigue.

She muttered, “It’s getting late. I’m going to rest. If there’s nothing else, please leave before I call the police.”

Charlie scoffed. “Call the cops? You think that intimidates me?”

As he spoke, his gaze swept subtly over at her belly.

Victoria ground her teeth.

This scum.

Helplessly, she demanded, “Then what do you want? What will it take to get you out of here?”

Charlie thought about it for a while. It wasn’t urgent now, so he walked over to the sofa and sat down.

“I’m taking the child. After all, I won’t leave my own seed outside. That’s why I’ll stay here around you for this period without ever leaving your side. Don’t even think of running away. With the child born, go wherever you wish. Oh, right. To show my thanks, I’ll give you a sum of money to ensure you live well in the future. Don’t worry about that. I never mistreat women when it comes to money.”

Victoria went white with anger.

“Get out! I don’t need your stinking money!”

She barked, pushing him outside.

She knew that Charlie was provoking her.

After all, everyone knew that money was the only thing Victoria Kaur didn’t lack.