The CEO's Unexpected Love

appeared so content in his arms, but Scarlett had decided that, no matter how gentlemanly

even someo

at she wanted to say. I'll have her." She took

ed. He had never been rejected. She refused to put his dau

n her cot while Maxwell remained in the same location. She gr

e ever get

turned out the lights and left without making any noise. Maxwell was where she had left him when she joined

n referring to the sofa where Ivy

, interrupting her once again. "She s

am. that even if she has her moments, she will be like all those other kids who cry over ever

her kids," Maxwell rema

th all those childish things an

to grow up." M

grinning and had that dimple on his le

" He in

connect with anyone. Although Andy and Sofi were aware of Ivy's intelligence, they were never a

ht in time as their eyes met. Scarlett's heart was pounding a thousand beats every minute, a

ugh knowing each other fe

her head away from Maxwell when she realized he was no

gone wrong with him

e was bonding with her, and then he wante

ly broken by Maxwell, who was eager to go befo

ng else. Something completely unrelated to any

eading the way, Scarl

to face her as

Scarlett."

he wouldn't have to see him go before making the

uld help her dispel the ideas that w

gh, because the scene in her living room kept playing in her head. Although it was uncomf

well did that same evening. He was much more grumpy than normal when he woke up th

anding a few feet away from him with her hair in a messy bun and her clothes falling loose about her, doing nothing to improve her form, would go through hi

ed to find a method to stop thinking about her. He left his office and pushed the number to her f

al legal documents to read through on her desk. Since it was Friday and she didn't want to return on Monday morning to cope with the work from the previous week and the one after, she ha

2:37. She had just instructed Alice, her assistant, to leave

ed and lose concentration; all she would need to do was phone Alice to gra

" Her gaze remained fixed on the pag