Mr. CEO Your Wife Has Wanted a Divorce for a Long Time

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day, Maggie didn't pay any more attention to Franklin and Julia's affairs.

She worked until almost nine, and just as she was finishing up, her phone rang-her best friend Jessica calling

swering, she learned Jessica was drunk and needed a ride home from the restaurant.

Maggie quickly finished her documents, grabbed her car keys, and left the office.

ty minutes later, she arrived at her destination.

Twenty

As she walked toward the entrance, a little girl emerged from the parking lot.

Seeing the girl's clear profile, Maggie froze.

Bella? Shouldn't she be in school in Country A? How... had she returned with Franklin?

Although her her access to confidential company documents, she knew that

sition didn't grant Franklin's development work in Country A would take some time to complete fully.

She had assumed Franklin was only returning briefly to handle some matters.

She never expected their daughter would come back too...

She didn't know exactly when they had returned, but judging from the fact that she had seen. Franklin early this morning, they must have been back for at least a day by now. Yet her daughter hadn't called her once to inform her about their return.

Thinking about this, Maggie gripped her handbag tightly and quietly followed the small figure bouncing happily ahead of her.

When they reached the lobby's corner, Julia and several of Franklin's friends appeared at the end of the hallway.

Maggie immediately stepped aside to hide, then heard her daughter happily call out "Auntie Julie!" before quickly running forward and throwing herself into Julia's arms.

Wanted

her back to

back in the country

he finished his work early and brought me back! We

the necklace Daddy and I made for you by

must have taken a lot of effort.

you like it, Auntie

much. If I hadn't been able to call you every

approached from

Maggie froze.

It was Franklin.

him, she could tell just from

so certain was that during their six or seven years of marriage, she had basically waited

just like the man himself-unhurried

he remained steady and seemingly indifferent, as if nothing could faze him even if the

to think nothing and no one in this

But then Julia appeared.

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Has Wanted a Divorce for a

Chapter 10

there

of the past, before Maggle could think further, she

"Daddy."

friends all

briefly, then said

Aha smiled, "Thanks."

prepare other birthday gifts for Auntie Julie? Quick,

went quiet over

private gift your daddy prepared for Auntie Julie. He'll probably give it to her in private. We shouldn't interfere,

already given it to

secretly went to see Auntie Julie

hmph!"

friends burst into

visit

probably gave it to

shyly and said, "Let's