Chapter 139: You don't want to have a home with me

—————— "Come inside," Charlotte said, her voice eerily calm despite the anger piling up inside her. She stepped back a few paces, making room for Liam to open the gate and come in. Liam's expression went through a quick succession of changes before he finally stepped through the gate. "Charlotte..." "I don't like this house; it's too plain." "Huh?" Liam was caught off guard by her sudden complaint. "What do you mean?" Before he came, he had imagined all sorts of reactions from Charlotte, hysterical accusations, heartbroken disappointment, perhaps even a stubborn hunger strike to force him to let her go... What he hadn't expected was for Charlotte's first comment to be a critique of the house. "What kind of house do you like, then?" Liam asked. Charlotte looked at him with a half-smile. "You really don't know what type of house I like, Mr. Parker?" Liam honestly had no idea. Even after all these years of knowing Charlotte inside out, he couldn't tell what kind of house she'd