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…

person, pregnant woman… Suddenly, it clicked for Letitia,

to Mark

never even thought about the child or future fertility

recover, even having a small confinement. Without proper care, it might

didn’t give a

Letitia stood up, pumped, “No pregnancy, no miscarriage, it’s all Shela’s ploy, her way to snag Elgin’s heart

headphones and bolted out.

Shela down had

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

financial empire, and he hates nothing more

him right where it

the villa. Turned out,

on her heel, heading out, when she bumped straight into

floated down, “In such a hurry to fall into

looked up at him, her eyes sparkling, “You’re back! I was just looking for

Talk about timing

drive to his office! She couldn’t wait another second

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her bright eyes, Elgin’s

front of him Expectant, hopeful, vibrant, and

see him? Elgin couldn’t help but cheer up,

“You’ve

late? Were you burning the midnight oil

“Yeah, meetings.”

the hem of his clothes, “I’ve got something to tell you, got a minute?”

like this, Elgin was

It’s

men just can’t resist the whole

too much of a good thing can be intoxicating.

voice of reason, but even after a momentary daze, he slowly came

smoothing out his clothes on impulse,

front of Elgin filled her with an

the living room, “You seem

was genuinely elated, no hiding it.

he sat down on the couch did she start, “I

Innocence”

and quickly surmised, “It’s about Shela?”

I didn’t drag her down the stairs, had no intention of hurting her. It was all her own doing! She was