Charlotte Thompson never expected that one day she would witness Justin Battleson looking embarassed.
The president of Riley Group, Justin Battleson, who dominated the business world, was actually learning to fold paper stars with several children.
However, for Justin, a task as simple as this, which one could learn almost imdiately, naturally did not pose a challenge.
But watching Justin’s distinctively jointed hands pinching a colorful little star, Charlotte always felt that such a scene was quite amusing.
"How is it, Miss Thompson, are you satisfied?"
Justin handed over the star, and a smile spread across his handso brows and eyes.
"So-so," Charlotte replied with a beaming smile.
Justin simply smiled without saying anything.
Ti flew by quickly, and Justin Battleson and Charlotte spent so ti playing with the children before coaxing them to go to sleep.
"Goodnight, my darlings," said Charlotte gently as she tucked Jack Thompson in.
"Mommy goodnight," the children responded one after another.
After shutting off the room light, Charlotte quietly left the room.
Charlotte finally breathed a sigh of relief and tiptoed away. When she returned to her room, she saw Justin sitting on a chair, flipping through Jack’s drawing book.
But he seed to have seen sothing that made him look a bit stunned.
It wasn’t until the sound of Charlotte closing the room door that Justin snapped back to reality.
"Are the kids asleep?" Justin rose and walked over.
Charlotte nodded, then took a step forward and leaned into Justin’s embrace, looking sowhat lazy.
She nearly placed her entire weight on Justin, and like always, her hands instinctively found their way into the pockets of Justin’s pajamas.
Suddenly, Charlotte seed to touch sothing in Justin’s pocket.
And at that mont, Justin realized, but Charlotte had already taken the thing out of the pocket.
It was a paper-folded heart, lying quietly in Charlotte’s palm.
Charlotte couldn’t help but look up at Justin with curiosity. "Did you fold this?"
But Justin shifted his gaze away in advance, although the slight reddening of his earlobes betrayed his feelings.
"Mhm," Justin coughed softly.
"How did you learn to fold this?" Charlotte asked as she turned the red heart over, considering Justin used to be soone who couldn’t even fold a star.
"I glanced at Grace’s origami book," Justin answered casually.
Actually, Justin didn’t know what ca over him; upon seeing that page in the origami book, he had learned it on a whim.
He indeed had thought about giving it to Charlotte, but upon looking it over, he felt it was sowhat childish.
So he carelessly slipped it into his pajama pocket, never expecting that Charlotte would discover it.
"So this is for ?" Charlotte hadn’t thought Justin would do sothing like this.
Justin pursed his lips, suddenly reaching to press Charlotte’s head against his chest.
"It is for you."
Justin spoke dryly, feeling for the first ti a bit at a loss in front of Charlotte.
Charlotte wrapped her arms around Justin’s waist and pressed her cheek against his chest, feeling his strong heartbeat.
"I seem to hear sothing..."
Charlotte was smiling with her lips pursed, but before she could finish, a quiet voice ca from above her head.
"It is saying it loves you."
Charlotte blinked, feeling the warm hand around her neck, and a gentle smile rippled through her eyes.
"It seems... it truly does."
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