All Chapters of The PRETENTIOUS Billionaire Series: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Chapter 11 “BYE!” Naomi waved at her parents as she was left by the gate. It was raining, and her parents were heading back to the hotel with her daughter. They had spent the entire day sightseeing, but in every beautiful place they visited, she couldn’t help thinking that Marco should have been with them. On the way home, her daughter had already said goodbye to her, eager to stay at the hotel where Naomi’s parents were checked in. Naomi didn’t go with them—she wasn’t used to sleeping anywhere that wasn’t her own home. She felt like she was losing her mind again. She hadn’t slept at all the night before. The young man filled her thoughts all night long. She remembered all the happy moments they had shared before, even how Ileana came into existence. Questions kept forming in her mind—why was Ileana still Marcus’s only child? Why was she the one who got pregnant? Why hadn’t his present girlfriend conceived? When her parents were finally gone, Naomi immediately pushed the gate open

Chapter 13WHEN she found herself cornered between the edge of the sink and Marcus’s body, she stood still.His hands moved from her waist to brace against the granite countertop. Because of that, his face lowered slightly. Naomi could feel his warm breath almost on her forehead, and she nearly shivered when it drifted down toward her eyes. She closed her eyes, unintentionally. Then she felt it brush the side of her ear. She avoided tilting her head, stubbornly thinking and weighing what was right and wrong, what she should and shouldn’t do. But Marcus was as strong as ever. He still had that powerful pull over her. Nothing had changed. Nothing at all. Her feelings hadn’t changed—she was sure of it now. She still loved this man deeply.“Naomi,” he breathed against her ear.She swallowed hard again, her fists clenching.His lips brushed her ear, then her cheek. He tried to tease her with a kiss at the corner of her lips, but she tilted her head to the other side to escape his mouth.He

Chapter 15 That same afternoon, Marcus’s grandfather Max was finally discharged from the hospital. He said he would rather rest at home, where he felt more comfortable anyway. Marcus said his goodbyes to the old man after escorting him there. Today was the day he would get the result of the test. Did he still need it? Maybe not anymore. He believed that Ileana was his daughter, but he would still get the result because there were people who needed it more than he did. He would go back to Naomi later because he hadn’t been able to say goodbye properly. He hadn’t woken her up. He had just left a note on her table that said, “I’ll be back.” He didn’t know if Naomi had read it—he hoped she had. “I am the biggest idiot among all idiots,” Naomi said, laughing and crying at the same time as she faced Aliyah. They had lunch together. She invited her friend out so she could let out what she was feeling—her frustration with herself. And with whom else? Marcus? No. She was the one who a

Chapter 17 Naomi’s lips trembled when Marcus looked at her. She couldn’t believe what she had just heard. It felt like she was the woman from a dream. Had she heard him right? “Let’s get inside?” he said with a smile, his tone almost questioning. She simply nodded and quietly turned away. Everything he had said to Laureth was still sinking in. She went inside the house and, absentmindedly, sat down on the sofa. She was completely dazed until she felt Marcus’s presence beside her. He sat comfortably, leaned back against the sofa, stretched his arms, and let out a sigh of relief. Tears fell from her eyes without her realizing it, but she felt him kiss her shoulder. “Hi, love. It’s been so long,” he said, making her sob. Marcus immediately wrapped his arms around her. “I thought you were dead. The people who took you were so powerful that Daddy couldn’t find any information about them or about your accident. All he was told was that your family took you.” “Money worked, sweethear

Chapter 1 “Moving to Manila like this is really a long shot, my daughter,” Mildred said to her child after coughing a little and looking around the house where they would be staying. They had just arrived from Cebu and were forced to try their luck for a better future in the city of Manila. They were lucky because her cousin in Hong Kong, Miling, offered them a place to stay. She said they could look after the house left behind by the old maiden for the meantime. Many people said it was easy to find a job here, and by the grace of God, Olivienne had finished college, so the young woman had the courage to face a place unfamiliar to her. She might not be a graduate of a private university, but she would not be outdone when it came to wit and intelligence. She might be considered a native from a rural place, but her fate would not end there—especially now that her child, Zeus, had grown. The boy was already three years old, without a father but full of love from her and her mother.