#Chapter 135: What Are You Implying?

For the next four days, I tried to say something to Charles, but my attempts always seemed to get cut off by something else. One night, Charles got a phone call from his co-workers and came back beyond annoyed. Another night, someone in the building tripped the fire alarm, and we all ended up outside. All those feelings of being lucky and blessed that I found at the moon temple were quickly slipping away. We were inching closer to the moon festival and Gwen’s arrival, and I hadn’t had a chance to open the subjects that were most important to discuss between Charles and I before his mother got her hands on everything. Not that I would mind the wedding to Charles, but if Gwen was feeling the need for grandchildren, what if she talked Charles into it before I had a chance to talk to him? It would just make the conversation that much harder. Two of those four days Charles ended up out of town, making talking impossible. He had to leave to go take care of some things before the intervie