1266 Leaving California

What Lucas said was exactly what Charlotte wanted to hear. She immediately looked like she had finally found a kindred soul, and she wished she could leap over to shake Lucas’s hand!

“Lucas! You actually share the same thoughts as me! You trust me!” Charlotte said emotionally.

Lucas smiled. “I’m your brother-in-law, and I’ve always treated you as my sister. Of course I trust you!”

Charlotte felt much better. She hated Lena, yet Cheyenne treated her as her best friend and trusted her completely. She even blamed her for Lena’s sake, making Charlotte feel extremely aggrieved.

“Lucas, you’re awesome! Indeed, you have great judgment, just like me. To be honest, I felt that Lena was hypocritical the moment I saw her. She obviously has evil intentions. She’s a scheming bitch!

“Since you’ve also seen through that woman’s schemes and evil intentions, I will forgive you for those photos! Even though she really helped you to the hotel, she must have schemed against you!”

Charlotte eagerly began criticizing Lena, but she suddenly thought of something, and her expression changed.

“Wait a minute!” Charlotte abruptly turned to face Lucas and sized him up a few times. “Why do you think she has ulterior motives too? Did she say something or do something to you?”

Lucas was astonished by Charlotte’s sharpness. He hurriedly waved his hand and denied, “No. I’m a man. What could she have done to me?”

Lucas definitely wouldn’t tell Charlotte that Lena had confessed to him and even said that she was willing to be his clandestine lover. All the more, he wouldn’t reveal that she had spent an entire night in the same hotel room as him when he was dead drunk.

If Charlotte found out, she would definitely fly into a rage and rush over to slap Lena harshly.

In that case, Cheyenne would find out about everything. Even Lucas wasn’t sure what the consequences would be.

But Charlotte wasn’t that easily fooled. She sized Lucas up carefully a few times and probed, “Is there really nothing? Lucas, don’t lie to me!”

Suppressing his guilt, Lucas said while caught between laughter and tears, “Of course it’s true. Lena is your sister’s friend. There’s nothing between us.”

“Why did you say that she has ill intentions then?” Charlotte insisted on asking.

Lucas said, “Actually, I don’t have anything against Lena. It’s about the Sawyers. You probably know that Ethan Sawyer betrayed me a few days ago. So I’ve decided to take the Hales, the Coles, and the Parkers to develop in DC without the Sawyers.

“Now, I don’t have a good impression of all the Sawyers, so I don’t want you and Cheyenne to get too close to them.”

Charlotte nodded. She trusted what Lucas said.

She wasn’t a child anymore. She was now the general manager of the Stardust Corporation’s Orange County branch, so she was very clear about what had happened in Orange County recently, as well as the behavior of the top families.

She also knew that Ethan actually wanted Lucas to take the Sawyers to DC too, but Lucas had rejected him relentlessly. It seemed that the Sawyers had really offended him.

Charlotte puffed her cheeks up and deliberately said with malice, “Okay, I’ll believe you! But from now on, you have to stay away from Lena Sawyer! If I see you two intimate and ambiguous again, I will never help you hide it from Cheyenne. I will definitely tell her and make you regret it!”

“Again?” Lucas was puzzled.

“Don’t tell me you’ve forgotten! During the Elite Business Exchange in San Francisco, I caught Lena Sawyer holding your arm and leaning against you. It was obviously intimate! If you hadn’t told me that you were just helping her and if that woman hadn’t asked me to keep it from Cheyenne because she was afraid of her misunderstanding, I would have told Cheyenne a long time ago!” Charlotte said furiously.

Lucas finally recalled that Charlotte had bumped into them and felt awkward. He didn’t dare to say anything else and hurriedly said, “Okay, I know! I’ll definitely keep away from her in the future! Cheyenne saved some food for you. Quickly go eat. Don’t go hungry!”

Then Lucas hurriedly got up and left Charlotte’s room.

He didn’t dare to stay any longer, lest he make more mistakes.

Seeing how distressed Lucas was, Charlotte chuckled, and her mood became much better.

As soon as Lucas returned to the dining room, Cheyenne immediately asked, “How did it go? Has Charlotte forgiven Lena? Has the misunderstanding been resolved?”

Lucas shook his head.

Disappointment immediately appeared in Cheyenne’s beautiful eyes, and she frowned slightly.

One was her best friend of over a decade, and the other was her sister. Cheyenne really didn’t want them to have any conflicts.

Lucas put an arm around Cheyenne’s shoulder and comforted gently, “Don’t worry. They’re two independent individuals. Since they can’t get along, let them settle their differences on their own. It’ll be fine as long as they minimize contact with each other.

“Don’t worry too much or feel sad about it. Just let nature take its course! You can’t possibly force them to become friends, right?

“Besides, people will always change. Just because two people get along well now, it doesn’t mean they’ll be the same in the future. Likewise, people who can’t stand each other now might make up because of a future opportunity. It’s hard to tell with these things, right?”

In fact, Lucas wanted Cheyenne to stay as far away from Lena as possible and not treat her as an important friend.

But Cheyenne had no idea about what Lena had done. If he said anything rashly, she might think that he was maligning Lena too and become even sadder.

So Lucas could only be as tactful with it as possible, in hopes that Cheyenne could prepare herself mentally.

“Oh, okay!” Finally, Cheyenne gave up on the idea of reconciling Charlotte with Lena and sighed faintly.

The following day, nothing happened, and everything was the same as every day before.

Amelia went to school, gave gifts to a few of her close friends during recess, explained in tears that she would be moving soon, and bid farewell to them. Meanwhile, everyone in the family went to work as usual and were busy with handing over their duties.

Shifting the focus of their development to DC didn’t mean that they would be ignoring everything they left behind in California.

They would conduct business, acquire businesses, merge them, and establish branch offices as necessary.

Everyone was extremely busy.

In addition to Lucas and his family, the Hales and the Coles were also busy.

But they had too many businesses in California, and it was impossible to reorganize them all within a short time. So they sent some people to DC to make arrangements first before they would slowly transfer their manpower.

They were all full of expectation and hope about developing in DC.

In the past few days, Lena had never appeared again. Lucas was rather pleased with this.

Soon, it was the day for Lucas and his family to move to DC.