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!”

Yasmine plunged into the sea and water filled her ears, nose, and throat, the heart-wrenching

to breathe, her body jerked, and the book in her hand fell to the ground with a thud. Yasmine’s eyes

It was then she realized,

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

slowly, wiping the sweat from her forehead. Her hands pressed into the plush carpet, and she gazed out

so when

been there. Yasmine was cheated on by Nick, pressured and cornered by Viviana, and under constant vigilance from Carolina. Boyd

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

told her, “What you want to give isn’t always what the other person wants, no

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

that gratitude evaporated when he

see her daughter again. He just wanted to keep her by his side, with no ties

was more obsessive

this was her life again. He was like that, and she was out of options. Regardless

where she was haunted by him in her dreams and now

door opened quietly, and Boyd walked in. Seeing her sitting alone on the bed, he smiled slightly, “When did

not really expecting an answer to his question, and asked,

turning to 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 to

just had a nightmare,” she suddenly said, catching

“What kind of nightmare?”

trying to save Serana, that I was kidnapped by Johnson, that you shot me, that I lost my child, that in a hotel, Serana lost her baby too, that I jumped into the sea in front of

smile froze on

and we have a kid together. You had your thing with Serana. I’m not without my faults, and the thought of you with other women turns my stomach. And I’m

I’ve told you, Herschel isn’t Serana’s, nor is

face. “Nothing? You expect me to believe

mind about us when you saw me carrying Serana out of that hotel room years ago. So I figured you wouldn’t need to ask about the past