The Daring Billionaire’s Wife by Lypstical

Vanessa

"To be honest," Mia says, stopping in her tracks for a moment right before we head inside the store. "I'm surprised Patrick wants to see Dominic. How did he even manage to call? I thought he was blocked." "He obviously wasn't." I sigh.

"Hmm...what could he possibly want to talk about that's so urgent?"

"Honestly, I can't think of anything else other than me because they have no business together. I'm actually starting to feel a little bad that on top of meeting Patrick, which wasn't planned for, he also needs to meet my management team to go through some financial data regarding my hair care line."

She raises her eyebrows in confusion. "Wait, won't he be on a date with Carmella?"

"He canceled it."

"What? He really did that?" She yells.

I look around at the people passing by and smack her arm. "Can you keep it down?"

"Sorry, I just wasn't expecting that, but damn! Won't that make her mad?"

"It already did. She even exposed everything."

"Then why do you look so calm?" She crosses her arms.

"Because Dominic told me not to worry. He said everything will be fine."

She dramatically holds onto my shoulders in panic. "And you believed him?"

I smile a little. "I completely believed him. He didn't tell me how he did it, but because he didn't sound like he was panicking and told me not to worry, it calmed me down."

Mia places a hand on her chest. "Now, that's love right there."

I chuckle. "No, it's just trust."

deny it." She teases me as we proceed

ask you something," I say

"What is it?"

you know the truth.

as she covers her mouth for a second. "How could I be awkward with the love

look away, shaking my head. "Will you tease me now every chance

heels!" She rushes over to the

comes to an end, we return to town using my private

pleasant surprise, my mother and father-in-law are with him, putting a smile on my

who looks more pale than ever before and it breaks my heart, but he still tries to smile like everything's alright and even cracks as

I check my phone, still a little anxious that maybe whatever Carmella exposed has gone viral, but I then remind myself that Dominic promised me everything was alright and I just need to believe him. It makes

and just as I'm about to put my phone away, I send a message to Dominic, telling him that I'm home and his reply makes me

not there to do that right now but as soon as I'm back,

in my smile so I don't make it obvious to everyone, thinking about the routine he created for me

I'm extremely eager for him to

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Dominic

to meet Patrick, I keep glancing at my phone like I can see Frank, who can't stop laughing uncontrollably after finding out everything that happened

face when she saw how calm you were even after she exposed everything. Will you ever tell her what you did?" "Why would I? It's

you still have to

it's getting on my nerves. I guess I'll have to pay up as usual even though I'm a week late and keep ignoring his texts and calls." "So, Mia's really on board

going to be like the first time that I speak to her

to being bold. I'm sure

in agreement. "That's why I won't be too surprised when that happens, but I don't mind because she already seems protective

way you're protective of

what?

abruptly end the call, thinking about how I'll do anything to protect Vanessa from anything and anyone that can hurt her and it's not just because she's pregnant.

huff as I get closer to the