Chapter 82

Book:The Billionaire's Unwanted Wife Published:2024-5-1

Chapter 82
“How do I look?” Henri asked Bruce who was typing away on his laptop.
“You’re good” he replied without looking at him. Henri frowned at this causing Ryan to burst into laughter
“You know daddy is busy, and you keep disturbing him asking how you look, of course he will only do that to you” Ryan giggled
“You are suppose to ask me instead. I’m the one who can tell you how you really look”
Henri pouted before asking “So Ryan, how do I look?”
“Hmmm,” Ryan placed his hand under his chin as he observed Henri from top to bottom
“Okay…. You’re good to go”, he said to Henri who smiled widely.
“Thank you, Ryan. You are smart”
Ryan only rolled his eyes before saying
“You should leave now. You shouldn’t keep her waiting” he gestured with his short hand for Henri to leave already.
Henri nodded “yes, yes, yes. Wait how did you know?” He asked with narrowed eyes
“Well, let’s say whenever you want to go see Aunt Tia you always have this wide smile on your face. You always dresses better and smell fantastic too”
Henri froze staring at the boy. He didn’t know whether to smile at the kid or frown at his words. Does he mean he doesn’t dresses fine whenever he wasn’t going to see Tia?
“You gat to be kidding me. Bruce did you hear what your son said to me?”
“He isn’t lying” Bruce replied nonchalantly with his head still down focused on his laptop.
“You should get going before she gets angry. It is not good to keep a lady waiting” Ryan dropped another statement that made both Henri and Bruce look at him in shock
“Ryan! Who taught you to say that?” Bruce asked surprised
“Miley did” he giggled. “She said her mommy use to tell Miles that it isn’t good to keep a lady waiting”
“Hm, Lyra huh?” Henri didn’t say anymore as he decided to leave already.
“Daddy, don’t you want to go on a date too like uncle Henri?” Ryan asked when Henri had left the room
Bruce shook his head “No, I’ll just be here taking care of you”
“How boring” Ryan said before he explained further “Auntie Lyra goes out also with Miley’s daddy as well. They spend time together and they are always smiling. You should try that too”
Bruce didn’t know what else to say to his little boy so he only nodded. He needed to focus on work since he would have to go and see Lyra later that evening
Henri went over to Tia’s apartment to pick her up. He met Miley using a beautiful pink hair clip to pin her hair
“It’s beautiful, Miley. Are you sure you want me to have it?” Tia asked as she stared at her hair through the hand mirror
Miley nodded “Yes, of course. I want you to have it because it suits you more. And it goes very well with your beautiful white gown. If uncle Henri sees you know, he wouldn’t be able to breath”
Before Tia could reply her, Henri did
“You are not wrong, Miley. I literally stopped breathing a while ago”
Miley chuckled with Tia blushed
“When did you get here?” She asked the man who had stepped forward to plant a kiss on her cheeks not minding that Miley was there with them
“Stop Henri” she turned red
“Why?” He asked and whispered
“Tell me you didn’t like it?”
Tia swallowed before moving away a little, she picked up her bag on the chair and said
“Let’s just go”
Miley giggled “Aunt Tia is shy”
“That’s true” Henri agreed. He wanted to say more but groan when Tia pinched his waist
“I’ll see you later, Miley”
“Okay. Uncle Henri bring aunt Tia back home safely”
“Oh, sure I will” Henri winked at her and she did the same back to him.
Tia could only shake her head at how Henri was acting like a kid with Miley
“So where are we going?” She asked immediately she entered the car and was about wearing her seatbelt
“Have I ever told you where we would be going?” He asked Tia who shook her head
“No, but today seems very special”.
“And why did you say so?” Henri asked with a smile, his eyes on the road.
“I can’t help but notice how you’re dressed today. You are dressed so handsomely” she said making Henri’s smile to turn into a wide grin
“Are you saying I’m handsome?”
Tia rolled her eyes, “Come on, you know you are handsome” she replied as she turned her head away to look out the window.
Henri saw her blushing face and smirked. They spoke as they drove and before they knew it, they had already arrived
“We are here”
Tia turned to see that they were at some garden area.
“Henri, this place is beautiful” she said the moment she came out to view the area.
There were flowers of different colours everywhere. The flowers were used to make a decoration of a door frame, though there was no door. It was so beautiful that Tia couldn’t tear her eyes away from the garden
“How did you find this place, Henri?”
Henri only smiled, “Have you forgotten that I am full of surprises?” He asked and she shook her head.
She turned to him and smiled “How can I forget? You are full of surprises and I love you for that” she pecked him before letting him go and walking ahead of him to continue the view.
What Tia didn’t know was that her actions and words had made the man frozen there. He couldn’t stop the grin that was appearing on his face.
Tia saw that at the middle of the garden, there was a round table and two chairs with a candle at the middle. She turned to look at Henri, the man smiled
He moved closer to the door frame and pressed a button, the entire garden was covered. Lights began to turn on, Tia’s eyes went wide open
When she thought she had seen the most beautiful things in the garden, Henri didn’t fail to surprise her once more.
The garden became like a tent with beautiful flowers and different colours of light.
He moved to the middle of the garden where the table and chairs were and drew one of the chairs out
“Come here” he said to Tia who walked over to him and sat. He made his way from there to his chair as well
“Is there anyone other than us here?” Tia asked in a whisper
Henri chuckled “Why are you whispering and why did you ask that?”
Tia didn’t know why she was whispering either. She cleared her throat before saying
“Since you decided that we eat here. I am asking because it looks like you’ll have to be the one to serve the dishes if no one is here ”
Henri nodded “That makes sense. I don’t mind serving you but I think I have a better idea” he winked.
Tia furrowed her brows ‘What does he have under his sleeves again?’ she wondered.
He clapped, just then three chefs came running in with different dishes, cutleries, glass and wine.
Tia’s eyes widened. How long had he been planning for this? It was just yesterday here he called her telling her she should get dressed and that he wanted to take her out today.
Henri smiled when he saw Tia lost in thoughts. The men were done serving the food and left but her face was still down staring at the table.
“Tia?” She didn’t reply. She was already out of the world.
Henri brought out a little box from his breast pocket and dropped it on the table. He opened it and pushed it to her side of the table
“Tia?” He called again.
Tia snapped her head up when she saw the ring in the little box. She blinked at Henri then stared at the box again then back at Henri
She opened her mouth to say something but nothing could come out of her mouth. She was dumbstruck
Henri went down on one knee and said to her
“I know I’ve wasted time, but as the saying goes better late than never. Forgive me for taking this long, would you?”
Tia didn’t reply him but only stared at her man with wide eyes that were turning teary
“Well, you should already know that I love you. I won’t stop saying it though, that I love you very much”
He paused before he continued “Tia, I would like to ask you if you love me enough to be with me forever. Would you marry me, Tia?”
Tia’s eyes were fixed on the ring, as a tear dropped. She couldn’t figure out why she was crying. She knew crying shouldn’t be the reaction she should be giving right now so she chuckled.
She was extremely happy so why was she crying?
She burst into uncontrollable laughter. Henri remained on his knee as he observed her. He wouldn’t get up until she said yes
Tia laughed for a long time as the tears kept rushing down like a stream of water. After a long time, she calmed down
“I love you, Henri. I love you so much” she pulled him to stand
“Yes, I’ll marry you. Who else do I know?” She hugged him with so much joy.
Henri slip the ring into her finger after the hug and lifted her chin up to look into her eyes.
Her sparkling eyes invited him in as his lips met with hers and they shared the most romantic kiss right there in that garden of love.