"Really? Give me back the evidence of my embezzlement in your hand; otherwise, I don''t trust you!" Eric gritted his teeth.


    "Enough! Eric, after the deal was done, we agreed not to contact each other again to avoid suspicion from others. Don''t call me again!" Charlotte hung up impatiently.


    She was able to control Eric with the evidence in her own hand. How could she be so stupid to give it back to him?


    Holding the phone, Eric got more agitated. He thought Charlotte was just ying games on him.


    If it wasn''t her who told Mr. Sterling on him, who else could it be?


    Now she still refused to give the evidence to him. Something must be wrong!


    * * *


    Charlotte had been a little upset since she got the call from Eric.


    Being audited was always a serious matter. Would Eric be desperate to find her trouble?


    In the evening, she walked out of the room and went downstairs for dinner in anguid manner.


    "What''s troubling you, baby?" Granny Rowe, seeing her dear granddaughter weak in spirit, took her hand and asked in concern.


    "It''s nothing, grandma." Charlotte braced up, forcing herself to smile. Of course, she dared not share her trouble with her.


    Granny Rowe thought she was still upset because of Dn. She gave her granddaughter a gentle pat on the hand.


    "Don''t worry, baby. I promised you, in a few days, Dn will leave Savannah ande back to you." Granny Roweforted Charlotte as she squinted Joanne sitting opposite her.


    The deadline for the bid project wasing up. Without those important files, the Sterling group had no chance of winning the bidding. She believed that Dn wouldpromise.


    Joanne frowned, knowing that her mother-inw said that not only tofort Charlotte; she was also telling her that Dn would only belong to the daughter of the Rowe family, and Savannah''s hope was but vain.


    Taking a breath, Joanne was about to argue with her mother-inw when her husband next to her gave her a gentle pull. She had to swallow her displeasure.


    Charlotte blushed at her grandmother''s words and nodded shyly.


    Just then, a maid came running up, whispering, "Miss, you are wanted outside."


    "Who is it?" Charlotte turned ck.


    "Mr. Naik, from Chicago."


    Charlotte''s heart missed a beat. Damn it, Eric flew to LA to find her!


    "Who''s looking for you, Charlotte?" Ethan asked in surprise.


    "Oh... A friend from Chicago. I''ll go out and have a look. You eat first," said Charlotte as she hurried out of the house.


    Under the streemp, Eric stood with a gloomy face. He took a taxi here as soon as he got off the ne.


    "What do you want? I made it clear I didn''t report you! It''s none of my business!" Charlotte pulled him into a corner angrily.


    "Besides you, who else knows about my embezzling public funds? Well, now that you''re going to marry into the Sterling family, you''ve forgotten who put you in this position! If I hadn''t told Mr. Sterling his lifesaver was you, do you think you''d have a chance to get him? Since you''re ungrateful and burn your bridges, I don''t mind dying with you! You reported me, and I''ll tell Mr. Sterling what you did! I''ll tell him you''re not the girl who saved his life!" Eric growled in a low voice, grabbing Charlotte''s wrist and dragging her out of the gate like an endangered beast.


    "Are you mad? What do you want now?" Charlotte pulled out her hand, stepping back. Her head was throbbing.


    Holy shit! What happened? Why did Dn suddenly decide to audit the ounts? If not for that, Eric wouldn''t have looked for her trouble like a mad dog now!


    "Okay, now I don''t care if you did it or not, just do two things. First, give me all the evidence against me in your hand." In that case, he still had time to erase the traces. "Second, go to Dn and ask him not to check my ounts."


    "I can promise you the first thing, but you ask me to change Dn''s decision? I can''t do that! I can''t stop him if he wants to check your ounts!" Charlotte shouted in a low voice.


    "Oh, now everyone in the group knows that you''re going to marry Mr. Sterling. In a few days'' time, you will be his wife! Of course, he will listen to you!"


    Charlotte felt her head was going to split. Her grandma sent that words in order to set her and Dn together, but they hadn''t gone that far. But Eric took the rumor for truth. Now he wouldn''t believe her even if she told him it was not true.


    "If I speak for you, Dn will doubt my rtionship with you. What we did three years ago might be found too! Impossible!" She gritted her teeth.


    Eric was furious at being refused. He grabbed her, dragging her outside the gate.


    "Go and talk to him now!"


    "Stop it! I''ll call somebody! There are security guards everywhere!" Charlotte turned pale with terror.


    "Oh, call somebody if you wanted to expose our deal three years ago!" Eric sneered.


    Sure enough, Charlotte didn''t dare shout, she just struggled hard.


    No one ever dared to treat her like this, and she had never suffered such humiliations before.


    "If you dare to touch me again, I''ll hand over all the evidence against you to Dn now, so that I can send you to jail directly!" She yanked her hand away and threatened him in a low voice.


    "You bitch!" Eric was so angry that he seized her by her long hair and gave a tug unkindly.


    "Ah!" Charlotte uttered a harsh scream out of pain.


    The two had at each other with fists and feet.


    Just then, a bright light hit them and, for a moment, blinded them.


    The two temporarily stopped, raising their hands to shade their eyes from the light. When they opened their eyes again, they saw a car stopping in front of them from nowhere.


    The door opened, and a familiar cool figure got off, apanied by two bodyguards.


    Charlotte stared at the man, her heart almost stopping.


    "Dn!"


    "Mr. Sterling!" Eric almost fell to his knees.


    The man''s face was ashen. Obviously, he had seen the fight and heard the conversation between them. His indifferent eyes roamed over their faces and fell on Eric as he ordered coldly, "Send him to the police!"


    "Yes, sir." Two bodyguards came forward and set up Eric, who was deathly pale!