The CEO's Billion Dollar Bride-Chapter 47 - 48. Love at First Sight
Chapter 47: 48. Love at First Sight
Chapter 47: 48. Love at First Sight
Michael Gordon watched her chubby little mouth open and close, his heart melting so much it could turn to mush: “Of course, uncle likes Bianca a lot!”
He really, really likes her!
However, at this moment, even Michael himself didn’t anticipate that he could love a child this much, since he had always been indifferent to children!
Witnessing the harmonious scene in front of him, Jaysen Smith, who stood aside, widened his eyes in disbelief. When did this playboy, Michael Gordon, start to like children so much?
“Whose child is this?” After pondering for a while, Jaysen Smith couldn’t help but turn his head and ask Sienna Harrison, who was equally surprised, “Don’t tell me this is Michael Gordon and Ivy Aretha’s illegitimate daughter?”
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The scene in front of them, one playing and laughing with the child, the other deeply gazing, gave all appearances of a family.
Hearing the phrase “illegitimate daughter”, Sienna glared at him: “You’re the illegitimate daughter, your whole family are illegitimate daughters!”
In Sienna’s cognition, Bianca Aretha is precious. Even though she doesn’t have a father, at least she has two mothers.
“Baby, it’s getting late. We should go home now, otherwise you’ll want to sleep in again tomorrow morning!”
Ivy Aretha directly picked Bianca up from Michael Gordon’s arms. His previously full arms were instantly empty, causing his eyebrows to furrow tightly. His gaze towards Ivy held a touch of indecision.
“Uncle, don’t be sad!” The little one, clearly seeing Michael’s thoughts, started speaking in her baby voice, “We’ll see each other again next time!”
For some reason, Michael, who had been fine a moment ago, felt a twinge of sadness at the little one’s comment. He smiled slightly and casually said, “I can take you home?”
“There’s no need!” Ivy Aretha declined while glancing at Sienna Harrison, “Sienna can take me home!”
Considering the current situation, how could she dare let Michael continue to interact so closely with the child? Who knows what could happen next. Michael, by no means is the type of man the child should like, yet she liked him so much.
The mystery of blood ties is really hard to explain.
“Jaysen, you can take Miss Harrison home. On the way you can stop by the Harrison family’s place and pick something up for me,” Michael didn’t pay attention to Ivy’s refusal, he instructed Jaysen while getting up and grabbing Bianca, “Bianca, would you like Uncle to take you home?”
“Ok!” Before Ivy had the chance to object, the child replied “ok” along with a vigorous nod.
Sienna wanted to go along but was stopped by Jaysen, “Miss Harrison, don’t you think it’s a sin to disrupt other people’s marriages?”
Jaysen’s words were directed at Sienna, but his eyes were fixated on the retreating figure of Michael, “After so many years, I finally see him actively interested in a woman, seems like his heart has softened.”
“Disrupt marriages?” Sienna looked at Jaysen with a bit of amusement, “Jaysen Smith, don’t tell me the two of you are in it together, Michael is after Ivy and you came to flirt with me?”
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Jaysen almost choked on her words, such a bold statement could probably only be muttered by Miss Harrison in all of Andras City.
“Miss Harrison’s vanity truly knows no bounds!” Jaysen looked at her with a skeptical smirk, “Ivy is a gorgeous woman, it’s completely normal that Michael is attracted to her. As for you? You have neither beauty nor shape. I, Jaysen Smith, am by no means desperate nor lacking in eligible women. I wouldn’t debase myself to the point of missing my sense of aesthetics.”
Jaysen’s tone was very mild, as if his words were coated with a March spring breeze. There was no hint of sarcasm, but rather of contempt.
Indeed, he was Jaysen Smith, the sole heir of the Smith financial empire. He could have any woman he wanted. Yet unlike the playboy Michael Gordon, Jaysen had always kept his distance from any scandal.
Ha
“Really?” Sienna’s face filled with a bright smile, using her provocative stare to challenge him, “I thought Mr. Smith said this to provoke me into proving that I am pretty and have a great body, seizing the opportunity to feast his eyes. After all, my beauty isn’t insignificant. In Andras City, the men who don’t find me attractive fall into two categories, those who are impotent, and those simply not interested in women. I wonder which category Mr. Smith falls into?”
“Neither!” Jaysen just looked at her and smiled, after hesitating for a moment he spoke again, “I’ll take you home.”
Men typically walk faster than women, and now that Michael had sped up his pace on purpose, Ivy could only jog to keep up with him in her high heels.
“Michael Gordon, can’t you walk a bit slower?” Ivy wheezed out to the man walking ahead.
Michael turned back just in time to see a figure supporting a staggering Ivy, his brows creased, and he turned back with Bianca in his arms.
“Are you okay?”
“I’m fine!” Ivy looked at the man supporting her in disbelief, “Senior, what are you doing here?”
Mario Jensen looked down to check if she had sprained her ankle, and after confirming that she was alright, he let go of her, speaking lightly: “I just happened to be dining here.”
While saying this, his eyes casually drifted toward the returning Michael Gordon, “Did you two have a fight?”
Last time in his presence, Michael had said that Ivy was his girlfriend. But after all this time, no media had reported that Michael Gordon had a girlfriend. Looking at the scene before him, something seemed off. Or perhaps Michael Gordon was just toying with her.
“No, we both…”
“Isn’t Young Master Jensen being a tad too concerned with someone else’s woman?!”
Just as Ivy Aretha was about to explain that what Michael had previously claimed—that she was his girlfriend—was a spur-of-the-moment lie, Michael interrupted her with his discontentment.
“If Mr. Gordon cares for his woman properly, where would others find an opportunity?” Mario Jensen confidently met Michael’s cold gaze with an equally chilling stare. His voice was icy and proud, “I advise Mr. Gordon that Ivy is not a woman you can toy with. If you think you can, you better let go now, otherwise…”
“Or else what? You want to take over?” Michael Gordon’s gaze was icy as he stared back. Although he didn’t have much to do with this man, he found him irritable. Michael paused for a moment before continuing languidly: “Too bad, you’re too late, our child is already this big!”
Michael’s words were clearly playful and provocative, but they struck Ivy like a thunderbolt. Her whole body was rigid in shock, she felt as if she had been turned to stone.
“Child?” Mario Jensen looked at Michael Gordon with a hint of amusement, “Mr. Gordon really knows how to joke, this child clearly looks about five years old. Six years ago, when Ivy and I were studying together, her boyfriend definitely wasn’t Mr. Gordon. If I remember correctly, you weren’t even in the country back then!”
