Dangerous Desire The CEO’s Hidden Woman

When she went to bed, she couldn’t fall asleep anymore, so she just stared at the ceiling and started wondering where he had been. No calls and explanations and he didn’t come back all night.

Scarlett turned over, the quilt under her, and closed her eyes. Had he gone off with another woman? Had he been drunk again?

No matter what had really happened to him the previous night, Scarlett just felt disappointed and became aware that she was not as important as she thought to him. It turned out that there was a huge gap between them, and it was so hurtful to leave without a word. Gradually she loosened her grip on the phone in her hand and fell into a deep sleep.

Scarlett dreamed of her mother. Her mother came to pick up Skyler and her after school, waiting on the corner of the street at sunset. On the way back home, she bought a candy bar for each of them, and Skyler got caramel stuck in his teeth, which caused her to laugh loudly. For he couldn’t get it out of his teeth, he started to cry. Her mother stroked his head and comforted him kindly, “It’s okay, my baby, don’t worry. I’ll get it out for you.”

Scarlett laughed loudly, too, and then carried Skyler on her back.

Her mother in a yellow dress followed behind them, and she touched his head, “Remember, Skyler, your sister loves you, but she will still laugh at you.. So is the same with others.”

“Your sister likes you, but she will still laugh at you….”

It was a strange statement. Her mother’s words kept running through her mind, and then she suddenly woke up in tears. Francis loves me, but that doesn’t mean we won’t have our troubles.

At ten in the morning, it became quiet outside. And then she got up and grabbed something for lunch. After that, she headed for the rec room with all the fitness equipment to exercise. It seemed that the baby liked his mother exercising because once she stopped, he began to punch and kick.

After a while, Scarlett got tired and sat down to take a break. Her cellphone rang, and she plugged in her headphones to pick it up. It was Eve. On the other side of the phone, Eve took a deep breath, and her voice was trembling; she was stuttering, and Scarlett couldn’t make any sense of what she was saying.

Finally, Scarlett understood Eve’s words. Francis had slept with another woman. She was overwhelmed and didn’t know what to say. Scarlett heard nothing more.

“Oh…”

“Scarlett! Scarlett, are you okay? Are you scared out of your wits?” Eve yelled out worriedly on the phone.

“Where are you now? Are you at home right now? Do you need me to come there to pick you up?”

“How do you know that he slept with someone?” Scarlett asked calmly.

“I hired someone. I hired a personal investigator. That’s how I know. I have the pictures with me too. Do you want to see them?”

“What pictures?”

“The pictures of that woman and him walking into a room. I don’t know what happened inside there, but do you really believe that they did nothing the whole night in that room?”

“Send me the pictures,” Scarlett said.Belongs to (N)ôvel/Drama.Org.

Eve hesitated and said, “Well, I’ll let someone send them to you. Are you alright?”

“I’m fine. Send them to me!”

Eve texted the pictures to her, and Scarlett took a close look at them. A woman, who was in a soft pink dress and had shoulder-length curls, talked to Francis and led him into the room. She looked seductive and very sexy indeed. Upon closer inspection, Scarlett realized that it was none other than Vivian. The dress she was wearing, in fact, was the one that Scarlett had lent to Victory.

Scarlett dialed Chuck’s number, and he answered the phone in a daze. He had probably still been asleep. Regardless, she went straight to the point and asked directly,

“Chuck, do you know who your mother’s niece is?”

Chuck sat up straight and rubbed his eyes, and asked in doubt, “What are you doing up in the morning?”

Scarlett stretched out her sore arms and sneered, “Well, you don’t know? Okay, I know who she is, it turns out that your uncle’s ex-wife is your mother’s niece. Why not just tell me directly? That would have saved a lot of troubles!”

Chuck was suddenly awakened by what she said and doubted calmly, “Vivian? What’s wrong with her? Has she bothered you?”

“You’ll know what I mean when you see the photos.”

She hung up the phone and texted the pictures to him directly. The pink and beautiful dress that Vivian wore in the picture was the one Francis had bought for her in Hong Kong, the first time he bought her clothes. It had been their first night together.

“What are you gonna do next?” Eve asked worriedly when she called Scarlett again.

“How much will it take to hire a hitman?” Scarlett asked.

“You want to kill Francis? Are you kidding me?”

“No, I can spare him. I just want to kill his mistress!” Scarlett jokes.

“Stop joking, okay? You are scaring me!” Eve cried out on the phone.

“Thank you, Eve! I owe you one. I’m willing to do the same thing for you if your husband tries to cheat on you.”

Eve was speechless, but she started to believe that Scarlett was fine, at least for now.

***

Meanwhile, in the hotel room, Francis sat on the sofa tiredly and, standing in front of him in a bathrobe, was Vivian, his ex-wife.

“Have you ever considered the consequences of this?”

“You are not going to kill me, right?” Vivian said as she lit a cigarette and sat on the bed.

Francis looked up at her with angry eyes.

She was so startled by his staring that her hand holding the cigarette started to tremble. Ash fell down and singed her thigh. She flinched and forced a smile on her face.

“You won’t do that to me, right? After all, we were husband and wife once!”

“Do you expect me to spare you? You drugged me. You assaulted me.”