"excerpttext">Focusing her gaze on her mother, Carly gritted her teeth. Charlotte beamed at her as if she&#8217;d just executed the coup of the century. Why her mother felt she had to buy the affection of men with some made-up position she didn&#8217;t know. Nor could she understand why Charlotte thought Carly would put this man on her payroll. After the last one, six months ago, Carly had balked and told her mother that she could pay her men out of her own pocket. There hadn&#8217;t been any &#8220;persona