Dangerous Desire The CEO’s Hidden Woman

“How ungrateful he is! You helped him get rid of those two annoying women, and now he blames you for not caring about his feelings? That’s nonsense. How dare he ask for a divorce?” Eve stomped around angrily. She couldn’t understand why Francis was behaving so strangely all of a sudden.

Scarlett leaned back on the sofa and stared at the tray of fruit on the table, and said, “You don’t understand. What I’ve done has provoked his ego, and it’s not the first time. I guess no one can endure me. I’m going to die alone.”

“But he is Francis Sandler, I thought he was going to be different… and mature.”

Scarlett looked up at her and said calmly, “There is no difference! He is still a man. Men are all the same, aren’t they? It doesn’t matter how they hold are, they’ll still act like mature little kids.”

Before Francis met Scarlett, he had always been a dignified and serious figure. But since he had gotten together with Scarlett, he had changed more than Scarlett did. All he thought about was catering to her desires.

“I still can’t figure out why he wants a divorce. Do you think he might just be trying to scare you?” Eve squatted down in front of Scarlett. She thought it might be that Francis was bluffing because he wanted to take some special means to conquer Scarlett.

Scarlett threw herself on the sofa and said, “I’m missing Carlos now!”

“Right, you have a son with him. Do you want to fight for his custody? If you do, I will help you with that.” Eve looked at her seriously and said.

Scarlett shook her head, and tears streamed down her face, and then she said, “I haven’t enjoyed my father’s love since I was a little girl, and I grew up on the streets and always got bullied… But Carlos is different from me. He has a good father who loves him and will secure a bright future for him, which I can’t afford… If he lives with me, he will grow up like me. He will have to work hard for his future and suffer great hardships as he grows up.”

Eve stood up with an angry expression and said, “Scarlett, I despise you!”

Scarlett crossed her arms and buried her face in her arms, and said, “I despise myself as well… But I don’t have any choice. Even if he doesn’t live with me, I will still love him with all my whole heart, but if he lives with me, what about the rest of his life?”

“Don’t you ever think that he might grow to hate you when he realizes that you gave up on him?”

She covered her face and sobbed, “I love him, and I really do… But I don’t have a better choice…”

She thought to herself: if she insisted on taking Carlos with herself, Carlos would have a normal life… but when he grew up and became aware that he could have had a better life than ordinary people if he had lived with his father…

Scarlett couldn’t bear the thought. When that happened, he would be likely to hate her for that, and she could never make it up to him then.

Scarlett turned the TV on and picked a show on motherhood. In the series, women would take the wrong child home from the hospital by mistake or deliberately replace their own children with the child from a wealthy family. When she saw that, Scarlett thought the women in the drama were stupid because she thought nothing was more important than her mother’s love. She believed that it was the best choice for the mother to bring up her own child. But now, she came to realize why they chose to give up their children. They wanted their children to have the very best lives and the most bright and wonderful futures. That was all that mattered, so they chose to stay out of the way.

In other words, their giving up their child was not because they didn’t love their children; instead, it was because they loved them too much. A mother’s love is selfless.

“Scarlett, you will regret this one day,” Eve said, tearing up.

Scarlett held the pillow and cried. She had made the bravest decision of giving birth to Carlos, and she had suffered a lot because of that. The pain was unbearable.

Would the mother love her child? The answer certainly would be yes, and that was the only answer the world could spit out.

As Eve said, Scarlett would regret it. And Eve was right.

***

Scarlett came to the company looking for Francis, but Francis was having a meeting, so she sat in his office waiting for him. She was very familiar with his office, but this time the man she was waiting to speak to was going to be her ex-husband.

“Mrs. Sandler, please wait a moment. The meeting will soon be over,” Amanda said.

“Okay, thank you!” she said.

Scarlett sipped on her tea delicately. That morning, Eve had insisted that Scarlett wear makeup to her final meeting with Francis. Eve used her great makeup skills to cover up Scarlett’s dark circles, under-eye bags, and deathly pale face.

A while later, the door was opened, and Francis walked in.

However, unlike before, he just ignored her completely.

“Have you thought it through?’ he said as he signed the paper with his head down.

Not knowing that he was talking to hers, Scarlett just stared at him blankly.

“I’m asking you: have you thought it through?” he repeated calmly.

“Oh, yes. I agree to the divorce.” She replied.

Upon hearing that, Francis snapped the pen in his hand. Instantly, Scarlett drew out a few tissues and handed them to him because the ink had gotten all over his hands.

But he didn’t take them; instead, he directly walked into the washroom. As the sound of water came, Scarlett rolled those tissues into a ball and threw them into a trashcan.

“Is it so incredible that I agreed to divorce?” Scarlett asked.

“It has nothing to do with you. My mind just went blank for some reason.” Francis explained.