CEO's Passion: Love by Mistake

After Natalie chatted with the children for a while, she asked them to hand the phone to Shane.

The children knew their parents had things to say to each other. Thus, they unwillingly handed the phone to Shane.

Shane took the phone, patted the children's heads, and aimed the camera at himself. “Was it tiring today?”

Natalie shook her head with a smile. “Not at all. We're the judges, not the participants, so we didn't need to concentrate that hard or stress about the competition. We just sat there and waited for the participants to hand in their work.”

“That's good. Don't tire yourself too much,” he replied gently.

“Mhm. Don't worry, Darling. I got this. What about you? I can see there's a bit of black under your eyes. Did you get so busy for the past two days that you didn't sleep well?”

“I wasn't busy. I only look haggard because you aren't by my side.” He stared at her intently.

Natalie didn't know how she should respond to that. “Do you miss me that badly?”

“Mhm.” Shane nodded. “If I could, I would keep you by my side all the time, but I know that's not right. You're someone who wants to develop your career and needs freedom. If I put a shackle on you, it'll destroy you. Besides, I like how confident you look when you work.”

husband's praises.

were chauvinists. Not only that,

have absolute power and control over their wives, including

capable of spending money and staying home. They wanted women who could only survive by depending on them instead

would feel ashamed if their wives had their own careers or were as capable as

that her husband wasn't that

train of thought ended there, she let out a wry smile. “Oh

answered plainly, “I'm

but I want

“Go ahead, then.”

the next round of the competition, she deliberately combined many designers'

her immediately.” Shane didn't hide the disdain in his tone at

yet, so she's staying for now. Still, there'll be plenty of chances for me to disqualify her later on. After

excellent works because she didn't really know

ranking through the use of plagiarized work, she would be causing innocent