Mistaking the CEO for a Gigolo

Nicole could not help but smile as well. Reaching out to touch Maya’s jelly-belly tummy, she replied, “You’ll be healthier when you slim down.”

“Yoda said the same, and Daddy said the same thing too last time.” Having mentioned Evan, Maya proceeded to question, “Mommy, when will Daddy be back?”

“…”

Nicole looked into Maya’s bright eyes. She could feel her heart being ripped apart once more, and that felt really painful.

Nonetheless, she managed to suppress the pain that was throbbing in her heart and continued with her white lie, “Daddy will be back soon. When he’s back, he’ll definitely bring you to climb the mountain, okay?”

Maya furrowed her small brows and nodded.

In the meantime, Nina let loose a sigh out of nowhere. She muttered to herself that Nicole’s statement was simply a silly attempt to coax a naive child.

If what she said was true, then why hadn’t Daddy come home yet?

Nicole looked at Nina without a word as she continued to bathe Maya.

After giving them their baths, hauling them to their bedroom, and cajoling them to fall asleep, Nicole quietly crept out of their room and returned to hers.

As she sat on her own bed, unable to drift into slumber, Nicole could not help but feel distressed as she remembered the looks in Nina and Maya’s eyes when they mentioned Evan just now.

Standing up and opening the doors of her closet to get her pajamas, she suddenly saw the box that she had sneaked out of Yoda’s room.

Putting down the pajamas, she took the box out and returned to her bed, planning to study it properly this time.

How do I open this thing?

What exactly is

herself as she studied the box,

When he opened

composure sank as his

could have

carefully, he concluded that the box should have been taken

brief moment of silence, a

bringing the four children back after their walk and recalled that Nicole had turned

suspiciously anxious. It had brought to his mind that the moment she caught him looking at her, she

definitely

her who took the box away? Was she the culprit

up and walked out of

Nicole was still fiddling with the

kind of otherworldly passcode has he set? Why is it so difficult to crack

thin,

to ponder, she considered that it might not be a safe place after all. Wouldn’t her efforts be in vain should Yoda find out and retrieve

into it, she ended up storing the box in the safest place

be secure. Soon the sound of water

the scene when Evan

front of her. Reaching out her hand, she could only grasp the

it would end up like this, she would have asked

No.

she would stop at nothing to prevent Evan from leaving

all too late. There was no such