CEO’s Romantic Affair

The wedding date was set two months after they had returned to Germany.

The schedule was already set with the service companies, there wasn’t much for them to prepare for the wedding but for a specific date.

Cathryn originally had in mind that a simple ceremony was great enough. But obviously, Helen didn’t take it that way. She thought that a wedding was the most sacred and romantic thing in both the man’s and woman’s lives. There needn’t be much grandeur, but a wedding ceremony must be memorable.

In her last marriage, Cathryn had only a marriage certificate, so this was literally her first wedding.

She called her family and friends in a hurry and had the date set with her parents.

And Helen happily took the role of her wedding dress hunter.

The first one to come was Grace, she was earlier than Cathryn’s parents. After finishing her psychotherapy in the States, Grace had a road tour for months. In addition to attending the wedding, she also came to Germany for a psychology institute program, so she arrived a month earlier.

Grace was married as soon as she found herself pregnant. She was now pregnant for more than five months, and her lower abdomen was prominently raised. Her hair had grown long now, and she had tied it in a loose braid behind her. She had a full maternal charm now.

From teenage schoolwork to the sweet and sour of first loves. The two young mothers were now having endless chats.

When Grace got to see Briston for the first time, the little guy was almost three months old. He had his edges on the face, and the pink fleshy torso began to shape. Everyone loved him, and Grace was no exception. As soon as Grace saw him, her first reaction was, “This kid looks too much like Keith!”

Looking at him now, except for the color of the eyes, Briston was really like a seventy percent version of Keith. The big eyes and high nose now took his chubby face, a handsome tiny young lad already.

Holding the baby, Grace came up with a great proposition to Cathryn, “Let’s arrange a marriage now! I’ll have a daughter, and Little Briston will be my son-in-law.”

Cathryn laughed and asked her, “Have you checked the gender already?”

Shaking her head, Grace said, “No, but it doesn’t matter. Just to marry Briston, I will have as many kids as I can until I have a daughter…”

Cathryn: “…”

“Hey, have you heard that babies are actually great fortune tellers, especially at telling the sex of the unborn babies? Let’s have a try!” She said and started looking around the room. But Briston wasn’t old enough to play with toys, so there was almost nothing in the baby’s room.

Cathryn happily obliged and went outside and brought in two small porcelain statues of a pair of Japanese dolls in kimono, a boy and a girl.

Grace’s eyes went bright.

“Those porcelain dolls! They look very valuable to me already.”

Cathryn just smiled. “…”

Putting the dolls in front of Briston, Briston kicked his leg and stared at them with his fist in his mouth.

He soon reached out to grab them and went in the direction of the female doll.

The grown-up ladies laughed and gave the female doll to Briston. Grace joked, “He’s attracted to girls already.”

After teasing him for a while, Briston fell asleep. They left the baby room while Cathryn asked the maid to bring Grace formula milk for pregnant women, and Grace, while waiting for her milk to cool, said to Cathryn.

“Jordan Riggs came to me.”

He still wanted Cathryn’s contact information. Cathryn made no answer.

“Of course, I’d never give him anything, did he not bring enough trouble?” She snarled as she sipped the milk.

Hearing this name again, Cathryn didn’t feel a thing. When she remembered what Keith had said, she drank the rest of her tea and didn’t continue on this topic.

The wedding furnishing was done by the home staff and the service company. After Cathryn had fitted for the wedding gown with Helen, she was just waiting at home to receive guests and waiting for the day to come. What she hadn’t expected was that, on the day before the wedding, Jordan managed to contact her after all.

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Victoria and Clement arrived in Dusseldorf a week before the wedding, along with Victoria’s siblings’ families. Keith and Cathryn drove to pick them up.

They drove everyone straight back to the mansion, where Helen was already waiting for them on the front porch, along with Keith’s father, Richard, who had come back for the wedding from his trip.

Victoria looked up at the castle in the sunlight, her eyebrows invisibly frowned. Helen was already hurrying down the stairs and offering her a big hug, “Finally, my dear Victoria!”ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

Keith and Cathryn arranged for the servants to take their luggage, and their guest rooms had already been cleaned up. Cathryn made sure once again they knew the arrangements and went to the living room.

Helen had always been a good companion, and Victoria, in her career of teaching, had seen countless people and understood her character. But despite how repeatedly Cathryn had guaranteed on the phone what a great person Helen was, the mother would only make her decision after she had met the family in person.

“The wedding is all arranged now,” Helen said to her in-laws after they had settled in the rooms and got refreshed, “I’ll give you full details when you guys are well-rested.” The 13 hours of flight, plus 9 hours’ time difference, were a bit too much for the parents.

When they had discussed the time of the wedding rehearsal, Helen got up and announced the dinner, “The dinner is ready, please join me in the dining room, my dears.”

Everyone got up. Helen took Victoria’s hand, and they were very close relatives. Like two friends who haven’t seen each other for many days, their feelings are like glue.

“Dear Victoria, I just want you to know how much I appreciate you for having brought up such a great young lady like Cathryn and giving me a wonderful daughter-in-law.”

Speaking of Cathryn, Victoria had no bad impression of Helen, but somehow she still had a bit of mixed feelings. She did not find herself very happy or very sad, but just something strange that was stuck in her throat.

Still, she smiled and replied with a “Thank you.”