The Heart I Gave The Love I Lost

Chapter 8

It was nearly dawn when they got home.

Isabella had fallen asleep before they even reached home.

Carrying Isabella upstairs, Franklin passed the master bedroom and noticed the door was open, but it was pitch black inside.

After putting Isabella to bed, he returned to the master bedroom, turned on the dim lights, and glanced at the bed–empty.

Maggie wasn’t there. Just then, the butler brought up his luggage.

Franklin loosened his tie and asked, “Where is she?”

The butler quickly replied, “Madam went on a business trip.”

He hadn’t been present when Maggie left with her luggage half a month ago.

Other servants had mentioned seeing her leave with luggage, presumably for a business

trip.

Strangely, Maggie rarely traveled for business before, and when she did, it was usually for just two or three days.

This time she’d been gone for half a month. Franklin merely grunted in acknowledgment, asking nothing more.

The next day.

Franklin ran into Maggie at the company.

Unaware that Franklin and Isabella had returned, Maggie froze momentarily at the

unexpected encounter.

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had just returned from her business trip, thinking nothing

a stranger, coldly passing

company.

sudden return would have delighted

him, she would have watched him with excited, joy–filled eyes, smiling and wishing him

now, Maggie merely glanced at his handsome face before

previous

changes before he

steady figure retreat, Maggie wondered when he had returned, but since

Franklin, immediately focusing on work upon returning to

an hour later, Jake called to instruct her: “Make two cups of coffee

the CEO’s office.”

his love for coffee,

paid off. After tasting her coffee, whether at home or in the office, Franklin had

had excited her for a long

wariness

that was all he

her, his attitude remained cold

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he usually had Jake contact her, and after she made it, Jake or others

any chance to get close to him.

Jake and others were busy, did she have the opportunity to deliver

his

she was to bring the coffee directly to Franklin.

it on a tray to

office door was

she saw Julia

face