“…”
Paige couldn’t help but laugh and cry as she listened. Looking at the man in front of her, who had become a shelter from the wind and rain in her life, she said, “What were you thinking when you were a teenager?”
“I wanted to marry you,”
Enrico said with a deep gaze, speaking with extraordinary seriousness.
“…”
Logically, there was nothing wrong with that. He did want to marry her, but he was forced to, forced beyond belief.
She sat next to him on the bed, looked at him, and suddenly asked, “When you first saw me at Wind Island, did you really think I looked like your sister, or did you have other thoughts?”
“What’s so wrong about sleeping with you?” Enrico pinched her chin, unhappy with her choice of words.
“…”
Paige wanted to kick him out of bed.
Seeing the thin anger on her face, Enrico slowly explained, “You don’t look like my sister, but when you’re not talking, that quiet state of mind reminds me of her, and the reason I brought you back was really just to use you as a substitute for my sister.”
When he returned to Rose Estate, he could still feel the presence of his sister.
After all, at that time, he controlled Jeremy and fulfilled his lifelong wish, so everything was meaningless to him.
Paige bent her knees, placed her hands on her knees, tilted her head to rest on her own head and looked at him with a knowing smile, “Oh, and then what?”
“Then?” Enrico was taken back by her recollection, “Then, seeing you lying in my bed, I knew it was impossible.”
“Impossible what?” She knew the answer but asked anyway.
“Impossible what, that moment I couldn’t treat you as a substitute anymore.”
Enrico pushed her onto the bed, leaned over her, grabbed her chin and kissed her, gritting his teeth and saying, “At that moment, I just wanted to sleep with you, understand?”
“…”
Paige smiled with pursed lips, refusing to release her teeth.
“Open your mouth,” Enrico kissed her lips unhappily.
Paige lay on the soft bedclothes, her long hair cascading down like a waterfall, with a texture like jet-black satin. She smiled and released her lips, and Enrico took his rightful place, proving with his actions that his idea of using her as a stand-in had only lasted the first time.
From the second take, he was finished.
Paige responded to his kiss, her fingers buried in his hair, suddenly aware that Enrico had said Alonso had mentioned her to him before.
“How dare you daydream?” Enrico was annoyed, and hated to bite her, “What are you thinking?”
“I was thinking that, in fact, looking at it objectively, Alonso was not bad to me as a daughter. He, like Blanca, had not forgotten me.”
They just thought she was dead, which is why they both lived in a daze for more than twenty years.
They never raised her, but they have both been living with the pain of losing her.
“You miss him at a time like this?”
Enrico spat out a button in his mouth, looking at the pale and delicate area of her neckline that was slightly open, and almost vomited blood.
“Do you think it’s not good for me to tell him to go to a hotel tonight?”
Paige still thought, “I seem to have a little bit of anger towards him because of Blanca.”
From her point of view, she should have a better relationship with Alonso. After all, when she was lost that year, Alonso was getting Blanca’s medical report and had no idea, so he wasn’t really responsible.
“…”
Oh, still thinking about Blanca.
Enrico’s eyes were bloodshot.
“Everyone only has one life, but not everyone can be firmly chosen and recognized,”
She whispered, and whenever she thought about this, she couldn’t help but think of Blanca silently cutting herself on her arm.
With Enrico’s affirmation, she was able to stand up again in the face of all the malicious words, and naturally forgive her biological parents.
What she got so easily was something Blanca could never imagine in her life.
Sigh…
She sighed in her heart, and Enrico rolled over and lay down next to her.
Paige then noticed him and leaned over, “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing, think about it, take your time,” Enrico said with a dark face.
If she wanted to play like this, he would soon be able to do without desire.
“…”
Paige was dumbfounded, leaned over silently, pulled one of his arms and put it on her pillow, reached around him, closed her eyes, and said, “I don’t want to think about it anymore, let’s go to sleep.”
“Huh,”
he sneered.
…
Enrico’s bad mood continued into the next day. Gabriel was a bit clingy in the morning, so Paige spent a little more time with him.
Enrico was angry and left first, of course, making sure the route was safe before leaving.
Paige arrived at the Gustin Group consortium later. Now she not only had bodyguards behind her, Blanca and Nick were also following closely.
They didn’t stop until they had escorted her into the towering building.
All visitors to the Gustin Group must pass through strict security checkpoints, so there are no sharp objects inside. They did not follow her in, so as to avoid unnecessary trouble for Paige.
After passing through the security checkpoint, Paige put on a mask and walked towards the reception desk, giving a faint nod.
“Hello,” the receptionist also nodded politely, everyone was wearing a mask during this special period, “May I help you?”
“I…” Paige took out her ID from her bag and handed it over with a faint smile, “I’m here to apply for a job.”
She was now free and clear, and had to come to the Gustin Group to find a job.
“Apply? I haven’t heard that there are any interviews today.”
The receptionist took her ID with some surprise, and when she glanced at it, her eyes widened. She hurriedly nudged her colleague next to her with her elbow.
Upon seeing this, all three receptionists were shocked, and hurriedly took a few steps back, bowing and curving their backs at 90 degrees, extremely respectful, “Hello, Mrs. Gustin.”
Mr. Gustin’s marriage, which was only made public the day before, was still very hot, and of course they knew about it.
Fortunately, they had behaved themselves, unlike those romance novel heroines who pointed their fingers at the CEO’s wife and brought trouble upon themselves.
“There’s no need for that,”
Paige nodded again, “So can I go up now? Or do you need to make a phone call first?”
She had never worked in a conglomerate before, and had heard that there were a lot of rules.
“No, no, you are Mrs. Gustin, you don’t need to make a phone call.”
The woman whose marriage had been made public by Mr. Gustin in front of everyone must have been spoiled rotten, so they would not be so inconsiderate. “The elevator is this way, let me show you the way.”
“I’ll go on my own then, you guys go ahead,” Paige said with a smile, and walked towards the elevator.
The three receptionists stood together, staring at Paige’s back, whispering, “Mrs. Gustin’s eyes are even more beautiful than they look on TV, what are they like, so clean, I can’t imagine she’s actually been in the slums.”
“Why did Mrs. Gustin say she was here to apply for a job? What is she applying for?”
“Applying for a secretary? A little fun between husband and wife?”
At this point, the three of them had a sudden realization, and as they watched Paige go away, they collectively filled in the blanks in their minds with a 2 million word unabridged novel called “The Pretty Secretary of the Rich President”.
Paige sneezed before she even reached the elevator.