Dangerous Desire The CEO’s Hidden Woman

When the four of them went out to eat dinner, Scarlett was still unhappy even though hours had passed since her conversation with Skyler. She ordered her favorite dish off the menu– fettuccini doused in black truffle and garlic aioli– but found that even those beloved flavors could do nothing to drive her bad mood away.

“What’s wrong with your sister?” Francis asked Skyler when he saw Scarlett twirling her pasta around her fork absent-mindedly.

“Well, it might be that the pregnancy made her silly!” Skyler answered as he fed Carlos a spoonful of chocolate-banana pudding.

When Scarlett heard that, she just stared at him and said, “What do you know about being pregnant anyway, Skyler? Just let me be.”Content © NôvelDrama.Org 2024.

“Francis, you’d better not talk her into having another kid,” Skyler said, teasing. He gave Francis a little wink.

“Well, I’m not sure about that! I would love to have another one.” He smiled and said. Scarlett didn’t say anything but stared at him reproachfully.

“Why can’t we just have one meal in peace? Carlos is barely a year old, and we’re already having this ridiculous conversation about me birthing another child! I haven’t even recovered from this last one.”

Skyler chuckled lightly, placing one hand on the back of Carlos’s chair. Carlos didn’t know what was going on, but his ears perked up when he heard his name come up. He looked at Francis with a quizzical expression on his face.

“My good boy, you eat better than your mommy!” Francis said as he gave Carlos a warm smile. As Carlos liked dad most, he just smiled back at his father.

When they had almost finished eating dinner, Francis just said, “Your dad and stepmother came to the office to see me today! I thought I should tell you.”

When Scarlett heard that, she just saw her silverware down and looked at Francis sullenly and said, “You didn’t promise them anything, right?”

“Well, without your consent, I won’t promise them anything!” He said as he held her hand tightly.

Scarlett breathed a sigh of relief and said, “Skyler and I hate them. They abandoned us when we needed them most. They’ve just come crawling back now because they want money. They’ll try to persuade us to forgive them, but it’s not about mending our family for them. It’s only about the money, trust me.”

“You won’t be angry about what I’ve done to them. ” Francis smiled.

“Stop kidding, I’m really serious!” Scarlett frowned and pinched his arm.

His bicep was so stiff that Scarlett hurt herself. She got hurt and pretends nothing happened. When Francis saw her face, he smiled and looked at her affectionately.

As a single person who had never been in a relationship, Skyler just had his attention on his nephew, helping him wipe his mouth clean and holding him up.

Francis took Scarlett up from the seat and said, “Alright, we will talk about the rest later. I won’t take what he said to heart as long as you don’t agree.”

“You have to!” Scarlett stared at him angrily.

As they were about to leave, Skyler took Carlos to the washroom, and Francis happened to meet his business partners, so Francis had a little talk with them before they all got out.

As for Scarlett, she had nothing to do, so she came to the corner and looked around.

Meanwhile, Chuck and his friends entered through the gates, and Scarlett recognized him in the crowd instantly.

One advantage of being pretty like Scarlett is that she could get away with almost anything. No matter what kind of trouble she got up to, people would wait for her to explain because they admonished or punished her. Deciding to use that to her benefit, Scarlett stuck her leg out to trip Chuck as he walked towards her table. He tripped slightly and then looked up, confused.

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Chuck’s friends, meanwhile, didn’t say anything because they assumed that Scarlett was an ex.

“Wow, real mature move there, Scarlett.”

She flicked Chuck’s forehead and said, “Yeah? How about now?”

“Grow the fuck up, Scarlett.”

“How dare you talk to me like that? I’m your aunt now, Chuck!” Scarlett said angrily with her hands on her hips.

After playing around with Chuck, Scarlett was in a better mood. With others standing next to them, Scarlett took Chuck’s arm and tugged on it, demanding the time for a brief conversation.

“I haven’t seen you in such a long time! Why don’t you ever come to see me? Are you ashamed of what your mother did to me? Is that it?”

Even though Chuck felt guilty about having had a hand in what had happened with Scarlett before, it was nice to see her again.

“I’m not like you, okay? I have been very busy recently.” Chuck said as he straightened his sleeves out.

“What’s wrong with me? I’m busy as well, alright? Besides, I’m young. I have stuff going on.” She said, defensive.

“Yeah, you are right! You are a student!”

Holding her arms across her chest, Scarlett looked Chuck up and down, and said, “up and down” at him and said, “Well, Carlos’s birthday is coming up, what present are you going to get him?”

“There are two months left. What are you in such a hurry for? Haste makes waste, isn’t that the saying?” Chuck said.

To her surprise, Chuck remembered the date of Carlos’s birthday. Chuck was a careless, forgetful person as far as Scarlett was concerned, so this was a pleasant surprise.

“The past is over,” Scarlett said, “I know you feel bad and guilty about it… but it’s not your fault, so you don’t need to feel guilty.”

When Chuck heard that, he forced a smile on his face. He seemed deeply apologetic.

“I used to think that I knew people very well and I could see a person clearly, so I never took anyone seriously…” He said as he forced a smile and looked at Scarlett guiltily, “But I didn’t even know about my own mother. Such a loser I am! Don’t you think?”

“You might know a man, but you can’t understand his mind. You don’t need to mind what your mother did to me. What she did is not your fault! What’s more, Carlos and I are fine now, so you don’t need to feel guilty.” Scarlett smiled.