Hidden Flash Marriage: Love Me Back, Mr CEO

It took a while before she finally realized where exactly she was. She was in the dining room.

She had slept off in the dining room. Sigh. She had better head up to her room to get a good sleep.

Everything came flooding back-memories from yesterday.

She looked up at the maid standing beside her and let out a small thankful smile.

Then her eyes darted across the large room to the wall clock. All of a sudden, she let out a loud gasp.

The time… She had slept in the dining room the whole night?! Who would have thought?…

She thought she merely took a nap here. Shit!

She jumped up from the chair like it was a hot pot of water. She glanced quickly at the maid and bowed thankfully before dashing up the stairs to prepare for school.

If not for the kind maid, she’d have probably missed school today.

After Mia was done dressing up, she headed back downstairs for breakfast. This time, she met Shawn already seated at the dining table.

Her steps slowed down at the sight of him and she hesitated for a while before taking her seat opposite him.

“Good morning.” She bobbed and muttered softly.

The stoic man simply ignored her as always. But this time, she felt that he was colder than usual. Or was she just overthinking things? Mia shrugged mentally.

She eyed him from beneath her long eyelashes and took a short look at his face.

His hair… he seemed to have lost a bit of hair.

His hair seemed… eishhh… thin??? Or was it just her eyes?

“Ma’am, here’s a bowl of hangover soup for you.” Mia’s trail of thoughts was cut short by the old housekeeper’s voice.

She immediately choked on her spittle, coughing incessantly. “Hurgh hurgh, thank you.”

She carried the bowl full of soup that Madam Susan had placed on the table and gulped from it.

Thereafter, she returned the bowl and stole a quick glance at Shawn to see his reaction.

Would the man be angry to know she drank last night?

But the face of the man in question remained expressionless. He simply scrolled away on his phone, completely ignorant to his surroundings.

‘Damn. Mia, how could you have been so dumb?!’ She scratched her head irritably.

‘Who asked me to drink?’

‘Did he see me, passed out at the dining, last night, when he returned from work?’

‘What will he think of me now???’

‘Dumb. Dumb, dumb Mia!’ She continued to rebuke herself inwardly.

All of a sudden, Shawn sprang up on his feet. He strode out of the dining room, so graciously, without saying a single word.

It wasn’t until after she had heard the front door open, and then close a few seconds afterwards, that Mia released her breath.

She breathed a sigh of relief as her tensed muscles relaxed. Her eyes skimmed over the numerous sumptuous dishes laid all over the table.Nôvel/Dr(a)ma.Org - Content owner.

The man didn’t touch any food before he left just now.

Before now, she had noticed he barely ate anything during breakfast. He wasn’t always home for lunch either. And as for dinner, he only arrived at home, every night, after dinner hours.

Every morning, he simply picked at his food. And that was it.

But today, he didn’t touch anything at all. Why?

This world was such a weird place to be. The poor had no money to cater to their needs. The rich on the other hand had, but… Sigh. What a life.

Didn’t the man care for his health? He was growing thin day by day.

Well… Mia shrugged her shoulders, downed the rest of the soup and started to eat proper.

After she was done waiting, she bade the maids goodbye and left the mansion.

The maids simply stared in shock and surprise as they watched the girl exit the house. What they had expected and thought would happen didn’t happen.

Was their boss going to deal with her when he got back from work? Maybe he wasn’t in the mood to do it this morning.

They shrugged their shoulders and began to clear the table.

As soon as Mia arrived at school, she headed strainght to her class. As she walked down the school’s corridor, a hand stretched out, out of nowhere, and pulled her into a corner without warning.

At first, Mia was alarmed and wanted to scream. Could Vivian and her crew be at it again?

But when her eyes landed on the person standing in front of her, her brows furrowed.

“Are you avoiding me, Mia?”

The boy asked with a deep frown.

The girl was taken aback by the question. But…

Well, yesterday, yes. She had avoided him and ran out of school immediately it was closing hours because she didn’t want to continue their discussion from yesterday morning.

Mia heaved a weary sigh. She didn’t want to lie to Max and Martha, but she couldn’t tell them the truth either and that was why she was avoiding the both of them.

“I heard about what happened yesterday.” Max hesitated for a couple of seconds, “did you really find yourself a sugar daddy?”

“Excuse me?” Mia’s eyes widened in shock.

“No need to pretend.” His mouth twitched.

He reached out and suddenly grabbed both of her hands, speaking in a hurried manner: “You can still make amends. Leave that man. I’ll go with you to apologize to your dad. I’m sure he’ll forgive and take you back.”

Mia was stunned at these words. She couldn’t believe her ears.

“Wha… what is the meaning of this?” She stuttered.

Sugar daddy???

The lad really thought-believed-she got herself a sugar daddy???

After all the years they had spent together, did he really not know what she could or could not do by now?? Mia’s heart broke and tears started to form in her eyes.

She gazed directly into Max’s eyes for a few seconds and shrugged his hands off of hers.

Without saying a word, she turned around and made to walk away.

“I know you’re doing this because of me.” Max’s voice from behind her made her stop abruptly in her tracks.

“You still have feelings for me, so you went and found yourself a sugar daddy-to make me jealous and come back to you.”

“Well, you need to stop now.”

He walked up to Mia and stood right behind her back. “Mia, you need to move on. I know it’s hard, but you have to. Forget all about the past and move on.”

He sighed, his voice, calm and gentle.

A silent gasp escaped from Mia’s mouth after hearing what the boy had to say.

Was this really the guy she had been in love with all her life? Really?

How absurd. And sad.