I Have Never Been Your First Choice novel Chapter 403

Chapter 403.

Jaxson really did fall in love with her.

The moment this result popped up in her mind, she really wanted to laugh.

The love she wanted but couldn’t get, he ended up loving her only after she gave up.

Charlotte pulled her hand out of his arms and said calmly, “Time to

She walked past Jaxson and got into the car.

Jaxson stood there, his thin lips pressed together.

go back.”

He had expected her attitude, but wasn’t this how he treated her back then?

He let out a laugh.

Turned to look at the people in the car.

It didn’t really matter who she had in her heart before; what mattered was that from now on, he would make sure she had him in her heart.

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After James handed the nanotherapy R&D project over to Charlotte, she got busy. She was at the hospital in the morning, and in the afternoon she rushed to the Nebula Tech Building for experiments.

Nebula Tech was the top medical tech company in Portland. Their recently developed AI medical project just went through market testing, and the feedback was pretty good.

The hospital that worked with Nebula Tech set up an independent Al night clinic department.

You just needed to enter your personal info, past medical history, and symptoms, and AI would monitor your temperature, blood pressure, and heart rate based on how serious your condition was, then send the info to the emergency department.

If it detected a patient with cardiovascular or cerebrovascular disease, AI would transfer to a human agent through an emergency call.

Although AI in healthcare couldn’t fully replace the night shift staff in the ER yet, it could still cut down on their tedious work.

Charlotte wore protective gear and watched the techs do culture work in the sterile room, taking

notes.

When the comparison results came out, she turned to leave, but saw Nigel and Izan standing outside the observation window.

Not long after, Charlotte left the sterile room, went into the air shower, and then got changing room through the buffer room.

back to the

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Came out of the locker room last.

Nigel looked at her, “How did the first day of the field trip feel?”

“That’s good,” Charlotte said with a smile. “The teacher said you were in this project. With here, I didn’t have to worry.”

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He paused for a second without showing it and squeezed out a “yeah” in his voice.

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“I was going to the cafeteria to eat, wanna come?”

He said, “Okay.”

The two of them stepped into the elevator, but Caroline saw the whole thing.

Caroline’s face looked a bit pale.

How could the man next to Charlotte be Nigel!

Was the guy who took Charlotte from the private room earlier him?

Thinking of this, her face suddenly darkened.

I was just thinking about how to deal with her, and now, she actually came up with a good idea!

Here, Charlotte and Nigel were eating in the cafeteria. After she got her food and went back to her seat,

she saw he only bought a bag of bread and a bottle of water. Suddenly, she remembered, how could someone with OCD touch food that was put out for everyone?

She sat down, “Sorry, I didn’t think about your situation.”

He slowly broke the bread apart, “It’s fine, I can eat anything, as long as it fills me up.”

“Could I ask you a question?”

“What’s the problem?”

Charlotte whispered, “Sorry to ask, but people say being a neat freak is a mental thing. Did something happen to you?”

He paused, looked up into her clear eyes for a long time, and said, “You sure that’s not a bit forward.”

Charlotte smiled.

“Just think of it as… childhood trauma.”

Childhood…

Charlotte accidentally thought of those kids who were with her back then again.

Nigel twisted off the cap of the water bottle, “Why did you ask that?”

She snapped out of it, shook her head, and said, “Just curious.”

“You’re a married woman, it wasn’t good for you to be curious about

my

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Charlotte just went silent.

In the evening, Charlotte got a message from Jaxson.

He had something come up tonight and couldn’t pick her up. He told her to let him know she was safe when she got home.

Charlotte replied with “yeah” and didn’t pay any more attention.

Nigel’s car suddenly stopped in front of her, the driver’s window rolled down slowly, and there was a strange man. “Ms. Sutton, Mr. Kendall asked me to give you a ride.”

Charlotte glanced at the license plate. It really was Nigel’s car.

But I was still a bit cautious, “Where’s the other person?”

The driver said, “Mr. Kendall had something at home and left with Izan first.”

Even Izan knew him, and he could drive Nigel’s car, so he must have been the Kendall family’s

driver.

Charlotte opened the back door.

On the way, Charlotte still texted Nigel to thank him for having someone take her back.

After I finished sending the message and looked up, I found the car was heading neither toward Brocade Retreat nor to Verde Apartments.

“Sir, did take the wrong way?”

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The driver glanced at her in the rearview mirror and didn’t say anything.

Charlotte vaguely realized something, frowned, and said, “Turn around and go to Brocade

Retreat right now, or I’ll make a call.”

“Ms. Sutton, don’t worry, it was our madam who wanted to see you.”

“What lady?”

“Mr. Kendall’s mother.”

Charlotte couldn’t help clenching her hand. “What did she want with me?”

The driver said, “I didn’t know.”

The car slowly drove into a small road, with flowers blooming all around, and the vehicle was hidden by a thick canopy of branches.

Soon, we arrived at a winery.

The winery was pretty remote, hardly anyone seemed to come by, and it felt more like a sealed–up warehouse.

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The moment the driver stopped the car, the door had just unlocked, Charlotte immediately pushed the door open and got out. She was about to run back when two men blocked her way.

“Ms. Sutton, don’t make things hard for us, we were just following orders.”

She acted like she was facing a big enemy, looked around the open field, and tried hard to stay calm, “I didn’t offend you guys, Mrs. Kendall, did I? What do you really want?”

Just then, her phone started ringing.

It was Nigel’s call.

She just picked up, the driver came up and grabbed her phone, she shouted, “Help-”

The next second, someone behind me covered my mouth.

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She opened her mouth and bit the back of his hand. While he was in pain, she swung her purse and hit the man’s face, then ran back the way she came.

“Handcuff her now!”

She was just about to reach the intersection when someone suddenly yanked her hair, and she lost her balance and fell to the ground.

The man who caught up pulled her up and said, “Ms. Sutton, since you won’t cooperate, we have no choice but to be sorry.”

She was roughly taken into the winery by the

man, until the door was closed.

Charlotte came to herself in pain, looked up, and saw the yard was desolate, all overgrown with weeds.

Hearing the car engine start and drive away, she rushed to the iron gate and shouted, “Let me

out!”

No one responded.

“Don’t waste your energy. No matter how loud you shouted, no one would hear you.”

Charlotte turned her head. Caroline came out of the corner with two men. She frowned, “Is that

you?”

“Bet you didn’t expect this, Mrs. Kendall was on my side.”

Caroline walked up to her and slapped her in the face, “See, you still ended up in my hands, didn’t you? Charlotte, you’re just as much of an eyesore as your family!”

This sentence obviously got to Charlotte.

Charlotte slapped her right back.

Caroline’s face changed suddenly and she shouted, “What are you all standing around for!”

Two men came up and pinned Charlotte down. Caroline pulled out a knife, “Aren’t you Mr.

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Kendall’s favorite student? Aren’t you the lead surgeon? If I ruin your right hand, do you’ll ever do surgery again?”

Charlotte stared hard at her, eyes bloodshot, but didn’t say a word.

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Caroline’s heart skipped a beat, like if she went through with it, there’d be no turning back.

But she hated her arrogance.

She should have been trampled under my feet!

Could only look up to myself forever!

Caroline stabbed down with the knife, and when the back of her hand got pierced, the sharp pain still made her cry out.

She was shaking badly, and her whole face was pale.

But even so, she never begged for mercy.

Even those two worldly men would break out in a cold sweat when they saw that brutal scene.

Caroline’s smile got even more vicious. Watching Charlotte suffer in her hands, she finally felt relieved.

The moment the knife was pulled out, the pain in Charlotte’s hand got even worse, and it felt like all the blood in her body was about to drain out.

She fell to the ground, and her right hand was already so painful it felt numb.

Caroline half–squatted in front of her, pinched her chin, “Charlotte, let me tell you a secret, the day your mother fell was really an accident, and I did grab her, but… I let go on purpose.”

She had already guessed that Maggie’s death was connected to Caroline.

But hearing her talk so coldly about a life lost in her hands, Charlotte just couldn’t help but

tremble.

I wished I could bring her to justice.

“I didn’t really want to kill her, but she heard something she shouldn’t have.” Caroline laughed and looked down at her. “Speaking of which, the reason I got away from Jaxson’s investigation back then was because of Mr. Steward. Your damn brother and your dad’s death–Mr. Steward was half the reason for that.”

Charlotte froze and couldn’t make a sound.

It wasn’t because she heard that her brother and mother’s deaths had something to do with Reynald, but because she saw that red mole on Caroline’s wrist.

Maggie said her daughter had a red mole on her wrist.

A mole about the size of a pinky nail, like a birthmark, was just barely showing under her watch

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Caroline saw her standing there all dazed and frozen, not moving anymore, and then got up smugly.

Just as she was about to leave, Charlotte grabbed her ankle with her left hand.

She held back the pain and let out a bitter laugh, “Caroline, one day, you’ll regret it.” Caroline kicked her hand away, locked the door with her people, and left.

Anyway, Mrs. Kendall said this winery usually didn’t have anyone coming over, and she hadn’t

seen any cameras.

By the time they found her, she had already died here from too much blood loss!

However, she had just led people out of the winery when she suddenly saw a group coming over.

of people

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Jaxson picked up the phone from the bushes and slowly turned to look at Caroline.

Caroline’s body shook a little, “…Jaxson?”

His eyes stopped on the locked door. He wanted to go over, but Caroline quickly stopped him, “Jaxson, there’s nothing inside!”

“Get lost!” Jaxson shoved her away and kicked the door hard.

When he saw the bloody, mangled Charlotte lying on the ground in his hands, his chest suddenly tightened. He rushed forward, picked her up, and said, “Charlotte!”

Charlotte’s lips were dry, and her eyelids were so heavy she couldn’t