His Sweet Menace novel

---- Chapter 18 During the past week, Lilith had watched Charles turn the city upside down just because I'd left. Maybe she thought that as long as I stayed gone, he'd still be hers. She never imagined he'd bring me back. "Shayla, you already took the money we gave you! Why did you come back?" Lilith tried to scratch me. Irushed to hide behind Charles. "Charles..." "Stop it, Lilith!" He shielded me and signaled his bodyguards to hold her off. Just then, her parents came out.

They looked wary of Charles . When they spotted me, their faces twisted like they'd just swallowed a fly. "Charles, no matter what's going on between you and Lilith , you're still engaged to her. And now that you know who Shayla really is, what are you even doing here?" By then, I was sure Charles had already found out about my background . No wonder he had given me that look when I addressed them as "Mom and Dad" as we had walked in. He knew I was pretending , yet he wasn't mad at all.

That meant my trip abroad paid off. ---- I left so I could reveal my true identity when the time was right. Only by letting him lose me once would he stop caring about my lies. After all, I wasn't really the Moore family's younger daughter, Shayla Moore. I was Shayla Locklear -just an orphan with no real background. The gap between those two identities was huge. If I'd told him upfront, he would never have accepted it. "Charles, you... already knew?" I asked, my voice trembling in shock.

He let out a sigh at my reaction. "Shay, you're the younger daughter of the Moore family. That stays the same." His words left everyone stunned and confused. "Charles, what do you mean? She's just a nobody with no blood ties to my parents . How could she be their daughter?" Lilith was being pinned by the bodyguards, still struggling to break free. She glared and yelled, "Charles, I've said it many times. She's just a gold digger who took my family's money to stay by your side.

She'll do anything for money, even sell herself. "She would've gone with anyone if the price was ---- right. She doesn't mind if it was you or another man! Don't let her fool you. She was messing around with Horace, remember?" Every word Lilith said made Charles' face turn colder. I'd mentioned before that he was a germaphobe , so my staged fling with Horace definitely bothered him. He didn't even glance at Lilith as he said, "Shut up!

Don't think I don't know who she is!" What did he mean by that? Istared at him in shock, remembering the conversation he had with Horace the night of the fire. Did that mean he had known about my real identity from the start? So, he had known I was faking it all along? That explained a lot. No wonder for over the past three years , no matter how I tried to please him, he always saw me as a gold digger. It all made sense now. If that was the case, did he truly love me now? "Mr.

Moore, my engagement with your elder daughter has now changed to your younger daughter. Do you understand what I mean?" Everyone understood then. My real status might be low, but he wanted the Moore family to hide that and