Your Character (Bad Boy Business)

**Charlie Baird** is the main character in **Bad Boy Business**. She is an accountant in Saxon and Archer.

## Your Character (Bad Boy Business)

### Romances:

Gabriel Bishop
Ernest
Richard "Dick"

## Character Background

> Charlotte is the office wallflower who never speaks up in meetings. Sometimes her coworkers forget she's there! But she's been promoted to be Gabriel's assistant. Can she tame this indominable beast, and overcome the demons from her past?
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Charlie was the best accountant in Saxon and Archer's team until her new boss, Gabriel Bishop, promoted her Junior Executive.

In college, she didn't know what she wanted to do, she only knew she liked reading the business pages in the papers so she decided she'd go for a commerce degree. Her mom was already sick when she started college and died a few weeks after the beginning of the semester. Her mom died of cancer, and her dad died a few days later. They were so in love, Charlie knew he wouldn't live long without her, but she had never imagined it would be so soon. She has no other known family. Charlie only had her best friend, Molly Webster, back then to help her through her grieving. That's when she met Richard.

Richard seemed to good to be true. He was charming, smart, good looking, and liked her even though she felt she wasn't worth it. It took her 4 months to realize he was bad news. He started making her doubt everything and think she was worthless. One day, they were arguing over a paper and he hit her, saying she was "giving him lip". She broke up with him, and he laughed, saying she would come back crawling. She reported him, but it was her word against his and nothing came out of it. Then he started being nice to her again, showering her with gifts and flowers, but when it had no effect, he started getting mean to her again. He started spreading rumors about Charlie and even following her, and calling her until she changed her phone number.

Richard was given a warning by the police, and stopped harassing Charlie for about two months. He waited for a weekend he knew she would be alone at home, with Molly being out for the weekend, and used a copy of his old spare key to get inside their apartment and wait for her. When she locked herself in, he attacked her, gagged her and tied her up in the kitchen, hogtied her and stuck her in a closet, then went out to get coffee with his friends to set up an alibi. She was only saved because Molly tried to call her to check-up on her and, when she didn't answer, got worried and called the police. The cops got there just after Dick came back. He is in prison when the books starts, though detective Lee calls Charlie to warn her he is getting released at some point in the story.

She has both physical and psychological scars from this episode. Besides the scars on her breasts, she also has anxiety around men and panic attacks. The fact Dick was so charming at first makes it extra-hard for her to let new people in. She tried to get healed and went to a psychiatrist, but when Charlie was not making progress fast enough, the therapist showed impatience, and Charlie thought it was all useless and she was beyond repairs. Gabriel recommends her to Dr Mac, the psychiatrist who helped him after his own injury, and she actually is able to get some work done with him.

## Trivia

* She has never seen a dirty movie, but she reads erotica.