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2022-09-12 01:39:34
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The Married CEO and I Daddy Is Coming Back Home!
Mara promptly returned to her room and grabbed her phone. Then she dialed his number. First ring, second ring, third ring, but just when she thought it would go unanswered, he suddenly picked it up."Good morning, Mara," his baritone filled her ears and she realized just how long it had been since the last time she spoke to him."Good morning, Mr. Mike. How do you do?", Mara asked hesitatingly."I'm fine, Mara. Any problems?""Not really. It's just... I wanted to, you know, find out if I could go bring em... I mean, can I go to the prison now to get my boyfriend?""Oh no, no, no. It's not yet time. We're yet to begin proceedings here at the courthouse. But don't worry. I'm here at the court premises. When we're done, I'll let you know immediately.""Oh." Mara sounded surprised. "Will it take that long? I thought...""It might take some time, but not too much time. Don't worry. I'll keep you posted. Take care."Then the line was disconnected. Mara sat there staring at the phone. She co
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2022-09-12The Married CEO and I Leo Returns Home
Barely half an hour into her cooking, Mara heard a curious sound that seemed to have come from the front door. “Oh my God,” she gasped, her heart rate going off the charts almost instantly. She was not done cooking and Leo was already home?! What sort of welcome was that?? Running helter-skelter, she rushed to gather everything she needed to complete her cooking. Just then, a knock came on the front door. Mara’s heart almost flew out of her mouth.“C… coming!” She called out and rushed off to the front door, drying her hands on her dress as she ran.When she got to the door, she took a quick set of deep breaths before opening it in order to avoid choking on her own breath. The moment she opened the door, the first thing she saw was that lovely smile of her wonderful Leo. Without thinking twice, she jumped into his arms like a child whose father had just come back from a year-long travel.Leo laughed happily as he caught her and carried her into the house with the lawyer following clo
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When lunch was over, the lawyer took his leave, but not before highly praising Mara’s cooking skills and promising to visit anytime he was in the area. Mara breathed a huge sigh of relief when he finally entered his car and drove off. She now had the entire living room to herself and the love of her life.“Have you seen Leo? Let’s go see him,” she said, pulling Leo by the hand.“Oh, don’t worry. I’ve gone to see him. He was fast asleep. Let’s not disturb him please.”“Then I need to put him to bed,” she said and hurried off alone to the nursery. As expected, she found her son sleeping in a not-so-desirable position, so she carefully lifted him from the ground and transferred him to the bed as quietly as possible to avoid waking him. When she was done, she went back to the living room and jumped on Leo’s lap like a favorite daughter jumping on daddy’s lap.“So, tell me everything that happened to you in that horrible place,” she demanded as she snuggled against his chest.“You mean th
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2022-09-18The Married CEO and I Going to See Mom
“Are you sure you don’t want me to accompany you?”, Leo asked for the umpteenth time as he handed her her handbag. “No, really. It’s my first time going there. I don’t even know what to expect. Next time, we can go together,” she assured him with a smile.The complete truth was that she was a little scared that Leo might avoid her afterwards if he went with her and saw that her mother was in a very bad mental state. He might think that it was something that could be inherited. That was why she wanted to go alone first and see how the situation was before deciding whether to go with him the next time.“If you insist,” Leo shrugged. It was clear that he was reluctant to let her go alone and she wondered exactly why. Or was he anticipating or expecting that her mother would be violent? Well, if he already thought the worst, then there was no harm in taking him along. But… no, she couldn’t risk it. It was better to go alone and see how it all was before taking someone with her.“So, you’
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2022-09-18The Married CEO and I A Mad Welcome
The first greeting Mara got from her mother was an angry scoff. Clearly, the woman was not happy to see her or anyone else for that matter. But Mara was not deterred. She had always expected it. What she had feared was getting attacked. Fortunately, there was a glass barrier between herself and the woman. It seemed the room was specially designed to ensure the safety of anyone who interacted with her whenever she was in her bad moods.“It seems you’re all settled, so I’ll take my leave now. You know where to find me when you’re done,” the receptionist said with a smile and made for the door.“Thank you,” Mara called after her and she nodded in acknowledgement as she left.When she had gone out of the room and closed the door behind her, Mara turned to her mother. She took a deep breath and then exhaled. How would she begin? From the beginning of course.“Mother, I’m your daughter, Mara. Do you remember me? Your ex-husband, Benjamin Johnson, raised me. Do you remember him?”, Mara asked
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2022-09-20The Married CEO and I Just Like Your Father
For the next couple weeks, Mara visited her mother in the facility at least a few times a week. Leo had decided not to worry since she didn’t seem badly affected by the visits apart from the obvious sadness she felt with her mother’s condition. On her part, it never crossed her mind to take him along with her. She only took her son on each visit, but in spite of the fact that there was seemingly no marked difference in her mother’s behavior, she still persisted in the regular visits. She had recently asked her stepfather to join her, but neither had his presence made any difference.One morning, while she was preparing to make the visit to the facility, Leo came to her room. Even though they’d been living together for so many months, he still acted like the gentleman that he was by standing at the door and knocking.“Come in, please,” Mara invited him. “Is there a problem?” She was thinking that he would demand to go along with her to see her mother.“No, of course not,” he said, shak
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2022-09-20The Married CEO and I Heartbreak
Benjamin Johnson wished his stepdaughter goodbye and then went his way. He would have liked to accompany to see her safely home, but he had more than several times gotten the hint that she did not want him to know her residence. He had no choice but to respect her decision and let her do what she thought best for herself. At least, she was no longer the little Mara under his care. She was now an adult woman with a child and a job of her own. But that didn’t mean he wasn’t curious about her life. He would very much love to know if she was married yet and if her husband was a good man who took good care of her. But after what had happened between them, he felt he didn’t have the right to ask such questions. If only he knew that was how she also felt!When Mara got a cab, her stepfather went in search of a cab of his own. He had only stayed with her to see her get in a cab and wish her and Leo goodbye. Now that she was in the backseat of the cab all alone with her son who was as quiet as
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2022-09-22The Married CEO and I The Height of Injustice
“What on earth is going on here?”, Mara asked, her face reddening in anger.“W… what? I don’t understand,” Leo stuttered in evident confusion. Even the lawyer too seemed lost.“Who is she?”, Mara asked angrily, referring to the lawyer. It seemed that Leo was playing a prank on her. It was not enough that she had seen him hugging the woman, he was now bringing her home to rub it in her face!“She’s the divorce lawyer who helped me finalize the divorce. What’s wrong?”, Leo asked in surprise.“Divorce lawyer? Really?”, Mara questioned, her eyes filled with suspicion. If she was just a divorce lawyer, why had they been hugging so tightly??“Of course, yes. She’s a divorce lawyer. She doesn’t look it, right?”, Leo laughed. “I always tell her she looks more like a psychologist and she acts like it too. She always talks to me, advices me, consoles me… today, when everything was concluded and I… I… I’m ashamed to say it, but I broke down and cried. I can’t say I cried for joy, because I don’t
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2022-09-24
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The Married CEO and I The Choice
With her head down, Mara paced up and down in her room, wringing her hands from time to time, showing how helpless she was. She just did not know what to do to get herself a perfect solution for this issue. She had not told Leo anything about what her father had told her. And she had no intention to do so. If she was to tell him about it, she would also have to let him know her decision, and right now, she had not decided anything and neither could she imagine herself even telling Leo that she could never be his wife. It was absolutely impossible! Even she could not imagine a world where she would not be his lovely wedded wife. Since the day she met him, she had been consistently dreaming of this, and now that the opportunity had finally come, would she just sit down and let it fly past her just like that? Without fighting hard for it? The thought of another woman getting married to Leo and raising kids with him nearly made her run mad with anger. Impossible! She would never sit back
The Married CEO and I Choose!
"Dad," Mara gasped in disbelief. She had not expected her father to react in such a manner at all.But Caulden ignored her and kept his unwavering gaze on Leo. "A Stanson, right?", he asked."Yes, sir. Leonard Stanson is my name.""A Stanson from the North side."Hearing those words, Leo took a deep breath and drew up his body involuntarily. "If you had any business with my father or grandfather, I can assure you that I have no knowledge of it whatsoever and neither am I involved in it.""Humph," Caulden scoffed as if to say, 'who do you think you're trying to fool'.For a split second there, Mara almost forgot that he was her father and was just about to give him a tongue-lash. But she managed to hold herself in check."I don't know what you want me to say, sir," Leo said in all honesty. "I don't understand what you're trying to imply h...""You know very well what I mean," Caulden shot back. "You are a Stanson from the North side and you're no baby, so you must know the despicable
The Married CEO and I Leo Meets Her Father
"So, this individual, how long have you known him, you say?", Caulden asked after a moment of silence.Mara racked her brain, trying to remember when exactly she had first met Leo, but she just couldn't recall the exact date. So she gave up and simply shrugged. "I've known him for about two years or so. I can't remember when we first met, but he's been the most important person in my life and we love each other very much with all our hearts," she said with conviction. She was absolutely sure that her father would love Leo too. They were seated in his car now, heading over to the house for the men to meet each other formally."What did you say is his name again?", Caulden asked. His face seemed not so bright, but then, he was not known for smiling. A stoic man at best."Leonard Stanson. He's a very wonderful person." Mara never missed any opportunity to praise her sweetheart."I'm wondering if it's the South side Stanson or those despicable North side ones," Caulden murmured thoughtful
The Married CEO and I Declaration of Love
“Welcome home. How was your day? Did everything turn out okay?”, Leo asked as Mara walked into the living room.“Um… yes,” she replied with a weak smile and sat down heavily beside him on the couch.“What happened? What’s wrong?”, he asked in concern, sensing that she was not feeling very great.“Nothing much really, but it seems like a lot,” Mara murmured, placing her head on his shoulder. She still had not told him anything about the fact that she had met the man who was her father. In fact, she had planned to tell him everything after getting the result of the test. Now that the test result was known, she was ready to tell her story from start to finish. “It’s a bit of a long story, but I’ll just make it brief. I found my dad.”As she had expected, Leo was taken aback by the statement.“What? I don’t understand. How?”, he asked in surprise.“It was something my mom s…,” Mara stopped there when she remembered that she had not yet told him anything about the fact that the man whose n
The Married CEO and I With Her Father
Sitting beside Caulden in the white office in front of the imposing desk that had a computer and several files and papers, Mara didn’t know exactly how to feel. Anytime she was around him, she always felt almost as if she was a child in a principal’s office. There was this aura around him that smelled of nothing but dominance and demanded respect from everyone who met him.“Where on Earth is this doctor now?”, he suddenly grumbled, bringing her back to the present.They had met the doctor in the hallway when they arrived at the hospital, but he had told them to wait for him in his office for only. And here he was.“I’m very sorry, sir and ma’am. Something unexpected came up. But I have your result here with me now,” the doctor, a tall young fellow, said as he sat down on his seat across from them.“It’s okay,” Caulden said impatiently. “Here’s here what it has to say. We don’t have all day.”The doctor nodded and began to open the envelope that contained the test result. As he pulled
The Married CEO and I Settle or Not Settle
When Mara arrived home, the first thing she wanted to do was to squeal in joy and run into Leo’s arms and tell him that she had finally found her father. But she managed to check herself and her emotions. She was still not completely sure yet if that man was her father. It was only after conducting the DNA test they could be sure. Therefore, she decided to keep it a secret from Leo. This was the first time she was hiding something significant from him and it was making her feel weird. She had never even tried to hide her feelings for him. She felt like an idiot now. For someone who had vowed several times in the past to trust him, she was acting like someone who did not deserve to be trusted. How dare she trust him when she herself could not be trusted? No matter how many times she told herself that she won’t be keeping this secret for long, she still could not convince herself enough that she was being idiotic. She shook her head in a desperate attempt to knock the thoughts off her m
The Married CEO and I The Mission
It was election season and the campaigns were in full swing. Even though the man she was looking for was no longer the governor of the state, he was still very much involved in the state politics. In fact, he was more like a political godfather nowadays and the de-facto leader of his party in the state. One of the candidates running for the office of governor was his anointed godson, so Mara was quite confident that she would find him at the campaign headquarters of the party on a day when they were holding an ex-co meeting. She made the half-hour journey to the place and alighted from the cab a few dozen metres from the campaign office. She had done a lot of research about political parties, this one in particular, and how things were run at a typical campaign office. But still, she was a bit nervous. She tried not to think of any expectations because she knew that would only scare her even further. The whole mission would depend on how confident she was. Any mistake would ruin ever
The Married CEO and I The Next Line of Action
When Leo walked into the sitting room, he found Mara in the exact same position they had left her: hunched over her computer, working. But he was quite sure that she was not doing her normal company work. What he could glimpse on her computer screen looked like it had more to do with research than anything else, and her work had little or nothing to do with that.She had begun this new activity only recently and had been keeping at it almost every day. Leo had not asked her what it was about and neither had she volunteered to tell him about it. He was curious, of course, but he would give her all the time in the world. Whenever she was ready to tell him about it, she would. If she never did, then so be it. She was an adult and he would respect her as such.“Why are you guys back in?”, Mara asked, without looking at her Leos.“Something happened. I received something strange from someone we both know.”The tone of his voice and the manner in which he made the statement caught Mara’s ea
The Married CEO and I Surprise Visit
Leo was sitting on the balcony in the warm afternoon of a beautiful Saturday, playing with his little namesake. Mara had temporarily expelled them from the house since their play had been too noisy and distracting for her. But they had happily come out to continue from where they stopped.Little Leo had learned to walk by now and his feet were quite strong on the ground; strong enough run after the football he and Leo were playing. To say he was enjoying the game was certainly an understatement. He was running back and forth tirelessly, with a happy grin on his face as he retrieved each and every ball that went past him. But all of a sudden, out of nowhere, a shadowy figure rushed into the scene.Leo was startled for a split second, but there was no need to be alarmed since the figure had rushed up to him and not the child. He was taken aback though when the individual went down on his knees before. It was a man, there was no doubt about that. But when Leo looked down at the upturned
