All Chapters of TAKEN BY THE CEO: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

Since he came, Marcus never got the chance to spend quality time with Daniella. She was always busy and on most occasions, she would prioritize their daughter and Vanessa. He wished that Lilian would be back soon! However, there was an old saying that stated to be careful with what you wish for or you might get it. He just got back from Daniella’s office when Lilian arrived, together with Alexander and a certain unwanted guest. At first, he thought that his imagination was just playing some tricks on his eyes, but when he rubbed it, Philip Madrigal was still there, alive and kicking! “Pa, what are you doing here?” he inquired. “Is that how you’re supposed to greet the man who let you see the world?” Philip scolded his son for forgetting his good manners. Marcus had no choice but to let his father inside the house, together with Lilian and Alexander. The couple immediately went to look for their daughter. “How did you know about Alexander and Lilian?” “It just hap

Philip stared at the man who just arrived and wondered if he was Paloma’s suitor. He knew he shouldn’t feel a little bit of jealousy if the woman would entertain a suitor because he was nobody to her. They just had a one-night stand too long ago! He just listened as Edwin informed Paloma that he returned her car in good condition. When Paloma smiled at Edwin, Philip was starstruck, just like that night in the bar. He noticed her first just right when she came in, and he considered it a blessing when the woman sat beside him and ordered hard liquor. Just like Paloma that night, his heart was tortured as he mourned for the fifth death anniversary of his wife, the mother of Marcus. Katerina was his world and his everything but cancer stole her away from him! The woman who introduced herself as Sharon was very drunk and tried to seduce him into sleeping with her. He was still sober that night but couldn’t refuse the temptation and carried the woman to his car and brought her to th

Paloma and Philip rushed to the district hospital where Lilian was taken, and while on the way, they were anxious and uneasy. “Let me drive the car for you,” Philip offered as he noticed that her hands were shaking and she was nervous behind the wheel. “No, I can manage. Anyway, the hospital is just nearby.” Paloma refused his offer and glared at the man for inadvertently causing a misunderstanding about Lilian and Alexander’s parentage. “If you were not stupid to just sit there and corrected me, things like these would never happen.” Paloma started to blame Philip for Lilian’s attempted suicide. Philip was exasperated as he listened to the woman’s outburst. “How could you put the blame on me when I didn’t do anything wrong? It was you and your damn assumptions!”Philip fought back and scowled at Paloma for singlehandedly blaming him for everything. “Bastard!” she cursed at Philip as she continued to maneuver the car towards the hospital. She couldn’t blame Lilian

After their fight, Marcus took Daniella towards the greenhouse, a special place to calm down her raging desire to scratch his eyes. “Can you trust me to deal with Alicia?” He asked before they sat down on a bench that was customized to be placed near her workstation for flower arrangement. “To be honest, I’m not sure if I can trust you with it. Maybe you should just let me handle your affair,” she offered. Just the thought of Daniella confronting or challenging Alicia made him shiver. “Or maybe we should set a date for our wedding to stop Alicia from taking me away from you,” he counteroffered. “Do you think that a wedding ceremony can stop her? If I am in her shoes, no ceremony can stop me from claiming what belongs to me, and in one or another, she and I are so alike!” She responded. Her response didn’t make him happy. When he asked her hand to marry him, although she said yes, there was no date yet, and he started to wonder what was stopping the woman from set

It had been days already since she was discharged from the hospital but Lilian continued to be distant from her parents. Paloma's mother pressured her to accept and acknowledge the presence of Philip Madrigal, but she just couldn’t do it! Not yet… As she was alone in the living room and had no one to talk to, she got herself occupied by staring at the beautiful paintings on the wall, and she was mesmerized for the nth time that everything in Daniella’s house was perfect and well-designed, but she missed her less complicated life in the island. Lilian took a deep breath as more thoughts came into her mind. She wanted this and that, but she couldn’t make up her mind and it just annoyed her even more! “Pumpkin, what are you doing here alone?” Alexander smiled at Lilian whose expression told him that something was bothering her. “Just take it easy, Lian, I know it’s hard and shocking, but, you can’t continue doing this.” “I am fine Alexander, and happy too, because