The Enticing CEO’s Chosen Bride

Caroline and Vivian couldn’t help but grimace.

Hit the jackpot? Did she think running a company was like playing the lottery?

Though they didn’t quite believe her, the fact was she had her fingers in so many pies, involved in every industry you could think of.

What a madwoman.

Regardless of the future prospects, dealing with the current two billion in debt was something nobody would willingly shoulder.

Yasmine said, “It seems you have no objections, not that it would matter if you did. So, it’s settled.”d2

A two billion-dollar debt was no joke, but it was all invested in various projects. If not by the end of this year, by next spring, it would be a veritable feast.

Yasmine had long since figured out Caroline’s lack of vision, and short-sightedness; the near collapse of Summers Co. years ago wasn’t without reason after all.

Yasmine didn’t let Chloe come downstairs, but Chloe had heard everything from upstairs. At sixteen, she was already seeing through the veneer of things.

The current state of the Summers family had been laid bare today. Her mother had given her a shield in front of everyone, a safety net for her future recklessness. Her mother was always serious, rarely smiled, and her occasional tenderness was something of a rarity.

Chloe once thought her mother’s affection was solely dependent on her potential for success in the future. Now she understood that her mother had secured a future for her, one where no matter how wild or rebellious she got, she would have no worries.

Chloe quietly returned to her room. She believed her mother was always the strongest one. But her strong mother, two years later on her 18th birthday, jumping from the second deck of a luxurious yacht.

All Ava wanted was to ensure Yasmine could never return to Y Country. Yasmine had grown up in an orphanage, and now being hunted, it was proof enough of the chaos in that royal world.

Yasmine wanted to meet the mother she’d never seen, but she couldn’t. If it were the old days, she wouldn’t have been cornered like this. But now, she was a mother, wanting to leave all the world’s beauty to her daughter, to let her live happily and carefree, away from deceit and power struggles.

Looking back, she used to live so freely and boldly, that even in love, she never lost her pride. Perhaps vulnerability truly was a fatal flaw.

Now, her entire meaning in life was Chloe. To protect Chloe, she would do anything, just to see Chloe live as she hoped.

“Mom!”

nose, and throat, the heart-wrenching sound

book in her hand fell to the ground with a thud. Yasmine’s eyes snapped open, hand clutching her

looked around. It was then she realized, this

married, to a man who adored her, and they had two beautiful babies. And her, she was once

pressed into the plush carpet, and she

an instant, so when she woke up to find

her in her sights, Boyd had been there. Yasmine was cheated on by Nick, pressured and cornered by Viviana, and under constant

never thought about how embarrassing and ridiculous these tough years might seem to Boyd. She only knew she

she first woke up, Boyd had told her, “What you want to give isn’t always what the other person wants, no matter how

given what she thought was best to Chloe, but it wasn’t what Chloe really wanted. So she was grateful to

he forcibly brought her

to let her return and see her daughter again. He just wanted to keep her by his side, with no ties to anyone else. Not only did he prevent her return, he even stopped others from

man was more obsessive and

that, and she

her situation where she was haunted by him in her

Seeing her sitting alone on the bed, he

down beside her, not really expecting an answer

look at him. She remembered their college days when he was called reserved, but that was only relative to his peers. Now, he exuded a mature composure that came with time, comparing favorably

nightmare,” she suddenly said, catching Boyd

“What kind of nightmare?”

me, that I lost my child, that in a hotel,

froze on

just leave me alone?” Yasmine threw her hands up in exasperation. “I’ve built a life with Nick for over a decade, and we have a kid together. You had your thing with Serana. I’m not without my faults, and

between Serana and me. I’ve told you,

deep breath, skepticism lining her face. “Nothing? You expect me to believe you lived with her for years and never touched her

your mind about us when you saw me carrying