Chapter 297: The Repeated Confessions (34)

"Charlotte, don't move around, the doctor said you need to rest, lest the wound on your back tear open," Amelia said, unable to restrain her concern as Charlotte sat up.

"It's okay, Mum." Charlotte smiled and replied to Amelia, then continued to look at Elijah gently, a warm smile on her face. "Elijah, were you scared today?"

Many times in the past, Charlotte had treated him with such warmth and affection.

When he drunkenly returned to the Smith house, it was Charlotte who cooked hangover soup for him and fed it to him.

When he was feverish and unconscious, it was Charlotte who called the doctor, took care of him, fed him medicine, and showed concern for him, her tone gentle and affectionate, just like now.

In the vast Smith estate, Grandma was busy with the Smith Corporation every day. Sebastian Smith and Amelia Osbert focused all their attention on Charlotte. He had no parents, and his only older sister had gone to the United States.