When Ethan received the call, his breathing hitched.
Before he could fully process what he'd just heard, the line went dead.
He immediately called back, but the phone had already been switched off.
The first thing he did was grab the settlement agreement from the attorney's hands. He had been certain that now that Charlotte Dawson had recovered, she would never sign something like this so easily.
At the very least, he had expected a furious confrontation.
But he had been wrong.
The familiar handwriting on the document was unmistakably Charlotte's.
Only after checking her location and seeing that she was still in Capital City did he quietly breathe a sigh of relief.
After all, she had long since severed ties with her family, and she had been absent from the w
