Taming The CEO The Escaping Wife

Chapter 115

Neil’s entrance into her life was like this bouquet of flowers.

He was her ray of light, a savior in her darkest times.

In the evening, Letitia dragged her exhausted body back to Ivory Towers and after freshening up, as per usual, she popped on her headphones.

Shela’s voice came through.

She listened while doodling design drafts with a pencil on paper.

Until Mark’s voice emerged from the headphones, Letitia’s hand with the pencil froze in an instant.

She focused, afraid of missing a single word

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The conversation wasn’t long, just half an hour. And it laid bare the whole thing it was a setup, a scheme orchestrated by her and her father Letitia was innocent from start to finish; they had conspired against her!

But more importantly, Letitia latched onto the two key sentences

“Take it step by step. Anyway, she doesn’t know who the father of that child really is.”

“Dad, tell me, if I, a normal person, can barely handle it, hurting for days, then how on earth could a pregnant woman just be okay?”

Yes, Letitia truly didn’t know who the father of the child was, only Mark and Shela knew for sure. But that second sentence, it threw Letitia for a loop

Why did Shela say she was a normal person?

And why mention that after tumbling down the stairs, she was just in pain for a few days, while Letitia, a pregnant woman, seemed

unscathed?

Something was off.

Letitia held her breath, her brain whirring at top speed.

Shela wasn’t a normal person, she was pregnant

Letitia was a pregnant woman, no doubt, and so was Shela

Mark’s main concern was entirely about Shela herself, not a word about the lost child…

pregnant woman… Suddenly, it clicked for Letitia, she got

Shela complained to Mark about the pain and bruises from the fall since those were her biggest

a non-issue! She never even thought about the child or future fertility

body. Usually, women need to recover, even having a small confinement. Without proper care, it might become tough to

Shela didn’t give a

“No pregnancy, no miscarriage, it’s all Shela’s ploy, her way to snag Elgin’s heart and hit me where

her headphones and bolted

Shela down had finally come!

a pregnancy and a subsequent miscarriage; this was no trivial matter. It was beyond belief that Elgin would still keep her around!

a financial empire, and he hates

him right where

rushed towards the villa. Turned out,

out, when she bumped straight into someone’s arms.

“In such a hurry to fall into someone’s arms?”

him, her eyes sparkling, “You’re back!

Talk about timing

office! She

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he looked into her bright eyes, Elgin’s heart skipped

that look in front of him Expectant, hopeful, vibrant,

Elgin couldn’t help but cheer up, not even realizing the corners of his mouth were

“You’ve been

so late? Were you burning the midnight oil at

“Yeah, meetings.”

the hem of his clothes, “I’ve got something to tell

Elgin was

It’s

down, men just can’t resist the whole sweet and

too much of a good thing can

of reason, but even after a momentary daze, he slowly came back to his senses Looking down, he saw her hand on his

even smoothing out his clothes on impulse, “I got a

thinking about revealing Shela’s deeds in front of Elgin filled her with an unmistakable

the living room, “You

was genuinely elated, no

when he sat down on the couch did she start, “I stumbled upon a secret. Or rather, I found a way to

Innocence”

was no fool and quickly surmised, “It’s about Shela?”

intention of hurting her. It