Dangerous Desire The CEO’s Hidden Woman

“Except the threat, which part of what you said is useful to him?” He said.All rights © NôvelDrama.Org.

After a second thought, Scarlett said, “You are straying from the point. Anyway, you should not contradict me in front of him like that! That’s all I’m saying, okay? End of discussion.” She huffed.

“Alright, fine. It’s my fault. I’m sorry. It won’t happen again.” Francis relented easily because he knew that he wouldn’t win this argument with her.

Scarlett nodded her head happily and waved at him, “Well, I’d better leave you to work now and take our son outside for a little stroll. I can tell he’s feeling restless. He wants to go outside.”

Although it was nine o’clock, there were still many people outside. With Carlos happily wriggling around in her arms, Scarlett strolled and chatted with the baby.

A while later, Scarlett came to a restaurant. Her stomach was beginning to growl. She looked at Carlos and smiled. “My sweet boy, are you hungry? Mommy’s hungry.”

Carlos nodded in agreement.

“You’re hungry too? Well, let’s get inside and get you something tasty to eat!” Scarlett said she gladly took her son to walk into the restaurant. Although the food prepared at home was quite delicious, it didn’t compare to what she got to eat out. This restaurant, in particular, had many flavorful items on the menu.

There were not many people at the restaurant now; there was a quiet candlelit dinner in the southwest corner and a buffet spread located in the northeast corner of the establishment.

After taking a look around, Scarlett placed Carlos in the kid’s high chair. And then she rushed to grab food from the buffet section. She asked one of the servers to keep an eye on Carlos just for a moment.

“Oh, sweet boy, your mummy will be back soon!” The waiter coaxed him in a low voice. A moment later, Scarlett came back with a plate piled up high with food in her hand. She saw Carlos looking around while the waiter kept standing next to him.

“Thank you!” Scarlett smiled at the waiter as she took her seat next to Carlos.

“You’re welcome! Please enjoy your meal.” The waiter smiled and then walked away immediately.

“What’s going on, my dear? Did you make that kind man angry?”

Carlos didn’t mumble anything back in response. Instead, he just ignored her and pointed at the luscious piece of chocolate cake on the plate. It was as if he was saying, “Here, go ahead and eat this.”

Scarlett took a big bite of the chocolate cake and forked a piece of banana onto a smaller plate for him to eat.

All of a sudden, a high-pitched voice interrupted, “An infant should not be allowed to eat chocolate. He will probably get a stomach ache later. You better watch what you feed him, young lady.”

Upon hearing that voice, Scarlett looked up and then saw a handsome man standing in front of her. The man was very handsome and had a unique magnetism to him. He was extremely charming.

“Are you a doctor?” Scarlett smiled at him and asked.

The man pulled a chair for himself and frowned. “Is it that obvious? I thought I had hidden it very well.” Scarlett laughed, trying to control herself.

Carlos stared at the man doubtfully and took a look at his smiling mother, and then he pouted and reached for the fruit on the plate.

“What a sweet kid! Eating fruit is very good for you, little man!” The man said as he caressed Carlos’s head and gave him an admiring look.

Because they both had nothing else to do, Scarlett and the man shared a table and started chatting casually. Scarlett didn’t think anything of it. It was just a good way to kill time while Francis was caught up in his various business matters. As for the man, he had been sitting alone and had attracted the attention of women who sat in the restaurant. Although he had noticed the cute baby, it was Scarlett who he was truly drawn to. Since Scarlett was wearing a white T-shirt and black jeans, she looked like a young student– he hadn’t thought that she would turn out to be the mother of the baby.

***

Scarlett and the man had a lot to talk about. Even though they were pure strangers, it turned out that they actually had many subjects to converse about.

“Do you like philosophy?” The man asked with a smile on his face.

“Well, if it were not a compulsory course, I really don’t think I would’ve taken a course in philosophy throughout my college career. It’s just too abstruse for me, personally.” Scarlett said, embarrassed. Scarlett preferred watching silly reality TV shows in her leisure time– that’s how she released her stress. She didn’t really have the energy to read complex books by people like Descartes and Hume on her days off.

“You really should give Freud a shot. Psychoanalysis,” he said, “My favorite is his book about dreams and the unconscious mind.”

They talked about many things, like democratic uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa and the stories surrounding Jesus and the Crusades.

“Do you know how Socrates died? A vote of the Greek people executed him. There were about five hundred people judging the verdict of the trial, and 360 of them voted to execute Socrates. So you can guess how troubling philosophers can be.” He joked.

“But wasn’t he a master of philosophy and the precious treasury of Greek? Why were there so many people hating him?” Scarlett was confused.

Then the man smiled and said, “Well, actually, the result of the first round of voting was 280 vs. 220. He had the chance to pay off a fine, and it was a fair deal. He was poor, but he had friends in high places. They were rich and willing to pay the amount it would take to have him set free. However, Socrates, who had his own intellectual rigidity, offered a very low price to the jury and was very arrogant in front of them.

“Wow, what a brave man! Was he not afraid of death?”