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Chapter 115: You're looking for someone
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2026-11-02 17:51:49
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From substitute bride to CEO Chapter 126: Is that a date Mr Grey
Lucien asked Chloe to dinner on a Tuesday afternoon. Not through an assistant. Not through a business invitation. Not because there was an event they both had to attend. He simply sent her a message.“Would you have dinner with me tonight? Just dinner, no business, no meetings.”Chloe stared at the screen for a moment. Then she typed. “As what then?”His reply came almost immediately. “As a man asking a woman he likes to go on a date.”She read it twice. Her lips twitched already finding the conversation interesting. “A date?”“Yes.”She placed her phone down, then picked it up again. “One condition.”“Name it.”“If it feels like an obligation, I won't stay long.”There was a short pause. Then his reply came. “It won't I promise.”She looked at those two words for longer than she meant to. Finally, she typed. “Fine. Tonight.”His response was simple. “I'll pick you up at seven.”At exactly seven, Chloe stepped out of the hotel. Lucien was waiting beside the car. He wasn't dressed like
From substitute bride to CEO Chapter 125: Then I'll teach them both
Lucien stayed in his office long after the building had begun to empty. The city lights stretched beyond the windows, bright and restless, but he barely noticed them, his attention fixed on the photograph lying on his desk.Chloe had sent him the message about dinner earlier. “I'll come.” Four simple words. Once, he would have read something into them, searched for hidden meaning, wondered whether they meant she was coming back to him. Now, he simply smiled. She was going home to their children. That was enough.He leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes. For years, he had carried a memory like a promise. A girl at a children's camp. A girl who had noticed something about him that nobody else had bothered to notice. A girl who had sat beside him when he couldn't speak, who hadn't demanded answers, hadn't asked why he was different, hadn't made him feel broken. She had simply stayed.He had remembered her kindness for years. But somewhere along the way, he had turned that memory i
From substitute bride to CEO Chapter 124: Maison Laurent
The invitation arrived on a Monday morning. Chloe was halfway through reviewing a production report when her assistant placed a black envelope on her desk. "Miss Campbell, this came for you."Chloe glanced at it. "Who sent it?""Maison Laurent."Her fingers paused over the report. Even the name carried weight. Maison Laurent was one of the biggest luxury houses in the world, with boutiques in Paris, Milan, New York, Dubai, Tokyo, and London.Chloe opened the envelope. Inside was an invitation to a private meeting regarding a potential international partnership. She read it twice. Then she leaned back in her chair.Four years ago, she had been sitting on the floor of a tiny apartment with a notebook balanced against her knees, calculating whether she could afford another week's groceries. Now one of the world's most established luxury houses wanted to sit across from her.She closed the envelope. "Tell them I'll attend."Her assistant smiled. "I already knew you'd say yes."Chloe looke
From substitute bride to CEO Chapter 123: They have his eyes
Catherine Grey asked to see Chloe two days after Lucien took The twins out. The message was polite. Almost too polite to Chloe.“I would like the opportunity to meet with you, if you're willing.”Chloe read it twice before setting her phone down. ‘Was she willing?’ she thought in her head.Zoe watched her from across the table. "Are you ok?"“Yes I am…it's just that Catherine asked to see me”“Lucien’s mother..?”"Yes.""What does she want?""I don't know.""Are you going?"Chloe picked up her coffee. "Yes."Zoe's eyebrows rose. "Just like that?""I'd rather know what she wants than imagine it."The meeting was arranged at one of Chloe's own showrooms. That had been deliberate. Four years ago, Catherine had been able to make Chloe feel like an unwanted guest in the Grey estate. Today, Chloe stood in a space with her own name on the wall, her designs displayed beneath carefully positioned lights, her employees moving around her, greeting clients and discussing orders. She wasn't waitin
From substitute bride to CEO Chapter 122: I didn't know it would feel like this
Lucien had expected the day to be easier. He had been around Leo and Leah before, but Chloe had always been there, quietly watching, stepping in when one of them needed something, correcting him when he misunderstood one of their strange little rules.Today, it was just him.The moment the elevator doors closed behind Chloe, Leo looked up at him. "So what are we doing?"Lucien glanced at the two children. "I thought we'd have lunch."Leah frowned. "That's boring."Lucien blinked. "You're hungry.""I know.""Then lunch seems reasonable."Leo looked at his sister. Leah looked at him. They both started laughing.Lucien stared at them. "What?""You talk like a robot," Leo said.Leah nodded seriously. "Like Uncle Caleb."Lucien's eyebrow lifted. "Caleb doesn't talk like a robot.""He does," Leah insisted.Leo laughed harder.Lucien shook his head. "Fine. What do you want to do?"The twins exchanged another look. "We wanna go to the park," they said together.So the park it was. Within twen
From substitute bride to CEO Chapter 121: Goodnight Daddy
Lucien kept his word. He didn't suddenly become impatient because Chloe had decided not to sign the divorce papers. He didn't start appearing everywhere she went. He didn't ask her where they stood every time they spoke. He simply followed her lead.If Chloe wanted to talk, he talked. If she needed space, he gave it. If she changed plans, he adjusted without complaint. It was so different from the man she had known that sometimes Chloe caught herself waiting for the old Lucien to return, he never did.One afternoon, she was leaving her studio when she found him waiting outside, standing beside his car, hands in his pockets."You have a meeting?" she asked."No.""Then why are you here?""I was nearby."Chloe raised an eyebrow. "You were nearby?""Yes."She looked at the car. "How nearby?"He almost smiled. "Twenty minutes away."She shook her head. "That's not nearby.""I know.""Then why did you come?""I wanted to see you."The honesty caught her off guard. "And you thought you'd ju
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