MIDNIGHT Bride The CEO's TEMPTATION

Charlotte covered her hand on her cheek in disbelief as tears rolled out of her eyes.

"Lionel? What happened? Why... Why did you hit me?"

"You still have the nerve to ask me why? Don't you know what you did?" Lionel growled in a low voice.

"I don't know what you're talking about..." Charlotte's heart was thumping, but she didn't admit it.

"You've been dating your old school friend Edmond, a private detective, and you've asked him to kill Savannah! If I hadn't got suspicious of you and kept an eye at Edmond for the last few days, you would have done something unforgettable!" Lionel gritted his teeth and pounded the crystal coffee table in front of him, his eyes blazing fire.

His sister was a very strictly brought-up girl. He couldn't figure out how she became so cruel that she even planned to achieve her goal by such filthy means. He had never lost his temper in front of her like this. When he sent Savannah out of the house just now, he could hardly hold back his anger at Charlotte, and at that time, he wanted to tell everything to Savannah and asked for her forgiveness.

Guilt had been eating into his conscience.

Charlotte's face changed. She pressed her hand to her stinging cheek, unable to speak.

"That guy damaged the tailpipe and locked the car door in order to cause the death of Savannah by accident... Charlotte, what are you thinking? How could you be so vicious? Are you really, my sister? Savannah's going to return to Italy soon, and Dylan will have nothing to do with her. Why don't you stop harassing her?" Lionel was pained to see that she had nothing to say.

It was really her who planned it!

Charlotte dropped her hand from her face and gave a pale smile.

"Yeah, she's going back to Italy. So what? She divorced Dylan and has nothing to do with him, but what then? As long as she's alive in the world, Dylan will never forget her. He would always be thinking of how to get back together with her. On this occasion, I can never really get into his heart!"

"That's why you're going to kill her? Charlotte, you've grown awful! How could you even plan murder for a man? What's more, she's our..." Lionel clenched his teeth in time to swallow the last words.

Charlotte, however, knew what he was trying to say and helped him finish it with a sneer on her lips.

"What's more, she's our sister, isn't she?"

"You... You've already known?" Lionel's pupils constricted, looking at Charlotte in disbelief.

"Sure. My brother was so good to Savannah, and he was nicer to her than to his own sister. Anybody could tell that you have special feelings for her. I thought you were interested in her and wanted to pursue her until I accidentally read the DNA report in your study. It turned out that she was our stepmother's own daughter..." Charlotte's face distorted as she said this.

Lionel didn't expect Charlotte to know Savannah's story long ago.

"Lionel, my dear brother. Is this why you take care of Savannah so much? You knew she's Joanne's daughter, but you hid the fact from both of them. You feel guilty, so you want to be nice to her, even better than to your own sister, regardless of your own sister's happiness, right?"

"If you know she's our sister, why did you still do that? You want to kill your sister for a man?" He looked at her with an even more painful look in his eyes.

"Sister?" Charlotte's pretty face twisted. "Come on, she doesn't have the surname Rowe! She isn't related to us at all! She has nothing to do with our family. Joanne loves us so much, but she's always been in bad health because she misses her own daughter and her dead husband! She never forgets Savannah and her father! I'm not worth it for my dad! Only you, only you think of her as a sister! If she had never existed, Joanne would have devoted all her love to me, treating me as her only daughter. And Dylan, he would have accepted me long before! Why? Why does she have to exist?"

"Charlotte, you were not so unreasonable before," Lionel shook his head in great distress.

"Oh, what about you? You've been so nice to Savannah, but you still dare not tell her the true story. Because you're afraid that the peaceful life of our family would be disrupted by her existence, right? Didn't I just do that to help you? As long as Savannah disappears in the world, you don't need to worry about that any longer!"

A shiver ran down Lionel's back. He didn't expect his sister would have the mind to kill Savannah not only for Dylan but also because Savannah was the daughter of their stepmother, Joanne, and she didn't want Savannah's existence to break their harmonious life.

When did his sister become so calculating?

She still thought there was nothing wrong with what she had done.

He gnashed his teeth and wanted to slap his sister again, but finally, he dropped his hand helplessly.

He couldn't hit Charlotte.

He had been hiding Savannah's story himself.

If Charlotte's behavior was shameful and repulsive, then so was he.

Charlotte's words also woke him up and let him realize how cruel and selfish he was to hide the matter from Savannah and Joanne.

"You're right," he said, looking at his sister coldly. "I stubbornly believed that it was better to keep the secret from them, but now I've changed my mind."

"What do you mean? What do you want?" Charlotte frowned.

"I…"

Before Lionel could say anything, he heard the maid's voice whisper from the door, "hey, Miss Schultz? Why are you back? What are you doing standing here?"

Lionel and Charlotte looked over in astonishment and saw Savannah standing at the door with a pale face.

She heard their conversation!

Lionel was so surprised that he stood still for a moment. Before he knew it, Savannah rushed into the couch and grabbed her phone, turned hastily, and ran away.

"Savannah!" Lionel reacted and cried. But the girl had already disappeared out the door.

***

When Savannah stumbled into her room, she could hardly remember how she managed to stop a car and got home. She was in such a mix-up that she felt as though it had been a bad dream.

She rushed into the bathroom and washed her face with cold water. After standing in front of the mirror for a long time, she slowly calmed down.

She remembered the conversation between Lionel and Charlotte.

Well, that creepy ride-hailing driver was sent by Charlotte. She wanted to kill her!