Chapter 144

“Charlotte,” Xavier called out, catching up to her just before she started going up the stairs and holding her hand.

“What?” She snapped, making Xavier take a step back, even though he didn’t let her go.

“You just got here,” he said with a nervous chuckle. “Did I do something wrong? I thought you would want to talk to me.”

Charlotte chuckled drily and slapped his hand away. “Did you do something wrong?” She mimicked. “I think the correct question here should be ‘when have you ever done something right?”

Xavier’s jaw tensed as he let her go and put his hands in his pockets. He was silent.

“You won’t say anything now? Do you think that just because I’m back, we can just carry on from where we stopped and pretend like this whole thing didn’t happen? You have a child. A child with a psychopath. No matter how hard you try to act like that’s not a problem, it is.”

“He’s not my child,” Xavier said with a frown.

Charlotte scoffed.

“Well he’s currently living in your house and