Alessa could see from the telltale look in Charlotte’s eyes that she liked Brian. She was quite uncomfortable at this thought but she repressed her emotion.
"Remember this girl, Brian?" Lionel smiled.
"Of course. The daughter of Ethan Rowe, the apple of your parents’ eye.” Brian quirked up the corners of his mouth.
"Yes, the little naughty girl who ran after you when she was a child," Lionel added.
Charlotte curled her lips and hit her brother with her shoulder gently. "Lionel! I don't think I was always pestering Brian," she said sweetly.
"No? I remember that whenever Brian came to his mother’s house in Chicago, you would come to find him. One day Brian was so busy that he asked Butler Curtis send you back, and you cried all day..." Lionel laughed.
"Lionel! You've had enough, I didn
