Chapter Eighteen.

It was lunch break. Bloom wanted Mario to leave the men and come have lunch with her. She had brought a food flask along with her and returned to the boss's office to get her son.

"You don't have to. Sharon will get lunch for you, or what do you say?" The CEO threaded his long, slender and masculine fingers in a caressing manner through the boy's soft thick curls and wore a simple smile.

Bloom and Adrian gasped and Sharon nearly fainted. Who the hell was this?! Where did that cold-hearted ice king drift off to?! They revelled in their individual conflicting thoughts till Adrian was brave enough to dare interrupt the ice king. "B-but..."

But, Mario nodded eagerly, a sheet of happiness etched across his adorable face. "Yes! That's even better...if it's okay..." His voice lost its charge at the end, his shoulders slumming and head lowering as he slowly turned to his mother.

'This kid!' Bloom was amazed. He was acting all pouty and spoiled all of a sudden. But what was more pending in dang