Page 67 of Vows In Corruption

I knew that news was going to start circulating from the second that everyone started leaving the board meeting last Friday, I’m just a bit surprised that it took them this long to get it out into the world.

The press probably needed concrete evidence that I was in deed getting married, and since Ella and I went to get out marriage license yesterday after work, they got it.

Even though having news articles talk about my upcoming nuptials, I send the article over to Henry in a separate message thread and tell him to get rid of it.

From what I can tell, Ella is hiding something. What exactly, I haven’t found out yet, even Dante is having a hard time with it, but whatever it is, is enough to make her skittish. So if I can protect her from whatever it is she is hiding from, then I will.

How husbandly of you.

Another message comes through, taking me away from my thoughts. This time the message is from Elliot.

Elliot

it looks like our dear uncle finally decided to give us an aunt

Samantha

Since when???? Who is she and why the hell did I have to find out through a damn tabloid?!??!?!?

I can hear her wrath all the way from here. Out of all the kids, Samantha is the most protective of me. Every time, I brought someone around when they were younger, she would alway do her best to ice that person out to give them a look to let them know what they are not welcomed. Which is why I knew I had to tell her and Grayson about what was going on. I just haven’t gotten to it. Planning a wedding in a week, even a small one is time consuming. Add work on top of that, there was no time left in the day to talk to the kids.

Hopefully once she meets Ella, she warms up to her. I don’t know if I would be able to make it two years with her mad dogging my wife every chance she gets.

Did I just think of Ella as my wife?

Great. I’m not even married and I’m already have my brain thinking that this marriage is real.

Grayson

I have so many questions, but the first one…. Is she hot???

I roll my eyes at the screen and decide to intersect before the messages get out of hand.

Me

I’ll explain tonight. Grayson, Samantha I’m sending over a car, be ready by three.

I look at my screen for about a minute, waiting to see if they start back up again, but all I get is okays from the two teenagers and the chat quiets down. I really should have called them home when Ella and I agreed to this, but I didn’t know how to admit that I essentially hired my assistant to be my wife for two years.

I still don’t but at least I have a better understanding of the situation than I did last week.

Was it stupid for me to ask the woman that has been in my head for over a month now to be my wife so that I could become CEO? Yeah it was.

The fact that she even agree still astonishes me even days later.

From the sounds of it, she needs me just as much as I need her.

She could have asked for anything in the world, and she only asked for a million dollars. I would have given her a hundred million if it would have made her agree.

Why would she only what a million? Maybe she is looking to buy a house. Or she thinks that a million would set her up for life. I want to believe that it’s one of those two things but the way she wouldn’t even look at me when she mentioned the amount tells me that there’s more to it. Something that may scare her, but I doubt that she will ever tell me what it is.

She may have started to become comfortable around me at the office, but this situation is different and she has yet to give me all of her trust. I saw it in the way she didn’t go into all the details of her childhood and I felt it when she asked for the money.

Who knows if I will ever earn it but it wouldn’t hurt to try.

Maybe once she moves in, it will be easier.

Since today is the day before the wedding and move in day for Charlie and Ella, I gave Ella the day off and I decided to work from home to get things done.

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