The Lord Mayor Falls in Love with Me novel Chapter 166

Joey had anxiously stayed at the Charles family for a day until Allen rushed back home from a trip to Joey’s hometown to ask for her parents’ permission to marry her in the evening.

Allen knew she wouldn’t like living there. When he was about to take her away, he was called to the study by his parents.

Joey didn’t know what Allen had been told by his parents, but when Allen walked out of the study, he had changed his mind and asked her to live here for a while.

Joey didn’t like the idea, but she didn’t want to put him in a dilemma. She finally agreed.

Allen gently held her in his arms. As the eldest child of the Charles family, he couldn't decide everything for himself, such as his marriage.

He had argued with her parents in the study, because they didn't approve of his marriage with Joey. Eventually each side decided to back down a little. Mrs. Charles allowed him to hold an engagement party first on the condition that Joey would live here to be taken care of by the maids before a safe delivery. They would decide whether Joey could marry into the family when the child was born.

The implication was that Joey could marry into the Charles family only when she gave birth to a son.

Allen knew that it was the largest compromise his parents could make. Things would only get much worse if he didn't accept it. He knew what his parents were capable of better than anyone else.

“Baby, don’t worry. I’m moving back here. I’ll stay with you every minute after work, all right?”

Allen gently assured her on the way back to their room.

“Allen, you must keep your word.”

Joey nestled tensely in his arms. Her maids Seventeen and Eighteen still followed her very closely.

They were left at the door when Allen and Joey walked into the room and shut it.

In the study, Mr. Charles was sitting comfortably in the leather chair and smoking. He looked up at his wife indifferently and frowned, “Would you really allow Allen to marry the girl when she gave birth to a son?”

Mrs. Charles sneered disapprovingly and raised her eyebrows, “Do you think it's possible? I’ve hated vain and ambitious gold diggers the most in my life. She couldn’t marry into our family even if she gave birth to ten sons.”

Mr. Charles wasn’t surprised at all, because he knew his wife very well when they had been married for over twenty years.

He took a puff at his cigarette and suddenly said, “Ten? I’m afraid she wouldn't be able to live longer enough to have a second child. Because you will make sure she dies in childbirth, am I right?”

Mrs. Charles was shocked to hear it. She tried to deny it, “What do you mean? I’ve never thought about it…”

“Really?”

Mr. Charles laughed, but his voice was icy-cold, “Haven’t you? I believe you’ve gone much further than that, because you actually did it.”

Mrs. Charles was stunned, but she instantly shouted, “Of course I didn’t. You’re insane!”

She was about to leave the room.

“You’d better hear me out, or I won’t mind telling others what I’m going to say.”

He wasn’t loud, but his voice was sharp and compelling.

She stopped. She bit her lips and clenched her fists.

He stood up slowly and approached her. He looked at her with cold eyes, “The day has eyes, and the night has ears. You knew how Laura died better than anyone else.”

Her face went pale when she heard the name Laura.

Laura was Lawrence’s mother and she was once Mrs. Charles’s best friend.

She was also the person Mrs. Charles had hated most in her life.

Mrs. Charles looked up at her husband’s cold eyes and couldn’t help feeling sorry for herself. She had done many stupid things for this man, but it seemed that he had never truly loved her, not for a day, not even for a second.

She laughed bitterly, “It happened twenty-five years ago. Why are you bringing it up now? Are you going to send me to prison to avenge your lover’s death?”