My Love Until the Last Goodbye by Alut

Chapter 0202

After the heated argument between Marcus and Maximus, Frederick managed to calm the two men down. In the end, Marcus needed to speak with his wife and convince her to tell Serenity the truth. Maximus reluctantly agreed, though the decision left a bitter taste in his mouth. Frederick had hit the nail on the head–neither Maximus nor Marcus were the right people to have that conversation with Serenity.

Frederick and Marcus headed toward Regina’s house in tense silence. Marcus’s thoughts wandered, lost in a memory triggered by Frederick’s earlier attempt to mediate A smile crept across his face. ‘When my wife gets angry, a few demons come out,‘ he thought. To Frederick, it was a few; to Marcus, it had been full–blown hell. He chuckled, remembering a time when Valerie had been furious–and the worst part was, she hadn’t even been his wife yet.

[Hesperia, nearly 17 years earlier]

Frederick knew Marcus well–he didn’t like dealing with unfamiliar people. Valerie wasn’t exactly well–known to Marcus either, but she was the

and was in her first year of university. The fact that the CEO accepted her as a temporary assistant piqued everyone’s curiosity, though they

and cleaned the conference table to make room for the food. She was starving after what felt like an endless day, and there was still work to finish. She missed Frederick, who was still on leave recovering

around Valerie lately. Just seeing her made his skin prickle and his stomach tighten. Something had shifted in the past few days.

how she saw him. She remembered how, before being assigned to the CEO, she and her colleagues would occasionally chat about how good he smelled. They had all guessed his cologne had a citrusy scent. Now that she worked closely with him, she had discovered the truth: Marcus wore Prada Luna Rossa. She’d looked it up and found it was a blend of lavender, orange, mint, and

and vest. He loosened his tie and unbuttoned the top of his shirt, rolling up his sleeves. He glanced at Valerie, who was still busy with the

their thoughts when a knock on the door snapped them back to reality.