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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just returned from her business

he treated her like a stranger, coldly passing

company.

past, learning of his sudden

she couldn’t embrace him, she would have watched him with excited,

his handsome face before lowering her gaze,

previous excitement and

changes before he

when he had returned, but since he was back, perhaps

Franklin, immediately focusing on work upon

to instruct her: “Make two cups of coffee

the CEO’s office.”

she was trying to win Franklin’s affection, learning of his love for coffee, she had put great effort into mastering its

home or in the office, Franklin had specifically requested coffee made

her for a long

she had underestimated his dislike and wariness of her. True,

that was all he liked–just her

remained cold and distant.

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

gave her any chance to get close to him.

and others were busy, did

his office

time, from Jake’s tone on the phone, she was

coffee, Maggie placed it on a tray to

office door was

politely, she saw Julia sitting on Franklin’s lap, the two apparently

face