The Mocked Miss’s Hidden Crowns novel Chapter 14

Charlotte pressed her lips together, pulled out her phone, and brought up her bank balance.

“How about this?” she asked.

The security guard rubbed his eyes and leaned in, counting the zeros on the screen. “One zero, two, three, four, five, six…” He didn’t even get through all the digits before Charlotte slipped her phone away and strolled past him.

The guard stared after her, wide-eyed. “That’s… a ridiculous amount of money.”

Inside, the club was alive with noise and laughter. People were drinking, partying, losing themselves in every kind of fun you could imagine.

Charlotte stood out like a beam of light in the middle of all that chaos. She was tall and graceful, her posture unshakable, her clothes simple and a little bit academic. In a place like this, she looked totally out of place, but that only made her more noticeable.

She hadn’t even been inside for a minute before people started eyeing her. Was she a lost student sneaking in for excitement, or maybe some sugar daddy’s latest fling? Everyone knew rich men loved bringing pretty young things to clubs like this.

Charlotte moved through the crowd, ignoring the stares, and found a quiet corner to sit. Her cool, steady gaze swept across the hall, scanning faces. It didn’t take long for her to spot the man she was looking for out on the dance floor.

He was probably in his early thirties, sharply dressed with the kind of fake respectability that only made him look shadier. He had his arms wrapped around a curvy woman, the two of them dancing way too close.

Charlotte’s slender fingers curled tight around her drink as she watched him.

She tapped the table. “Excuse me,” she called.

A server hurried over.

“I’d like your most expensive bottle of red wine. And a carton of milk.”

The server blinked, clearly confused. “Sorry, milk?”

Expensive wine, sure, that was easy, but milk? This was an upscale club, not a coffee shop.

“Our priciest wine costs seven figures, but… we don’t have milk,” he admitted.

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