Charlotte refused, "No."
Robert Stephens immediately flipped, "Then have him get out too."
Charlotte looked at him with an expression hard to describe, pressed her lips together, turned her face away, and shook him off as she left.
Never seen someone so shameless.
*
Though Robert didn't get what he wanted, he agreed to let Charlotte bring Ryan Smith into the Stephens family.
He had someone come over to give Ryan an intelligence test, and although she wasn't clear about the results, Robert didn't say anything later, presumably satisfied with them.
— This Robert Stephens really seems to hate fools.
*
Ryan Smith's mother passed away in the hospital bed two months later, on an early spring evening.
Compared to the last life, her time of death was delayed by just over thirty days.
During these two months, Ryan had been by her side; their last moments together were sorrowful but without too many regrets.
