Rumored wife

In the airport VIP lobby, Nicolas turned his wrist to look at the dial of his wristwatch. Assistant Rameau was responsible for the coordination of the staff accompanying M. de Valois on this business trip. He remembered Alexandre de Valois' uneasy expression as he kept pulling his mobile phone out of his pocket to stare at the screen for a few seconds as if dazed. But when a young woman with a child was brought into the lobby, his boss immediately jumped up to rush over to her. Immediately all muscles in the face of the otherwise so cold man relaxed, and he even laughed. Yes, he beamed at her and kissed her on the forehead before taking the toddler from her and wrapping his free arm around her waist.

So this must be the famous wife. Nicolas had never seen her in person, only knew her from tabloids and magazines. But she seemed to live up to her reputation. She was breathtakingly beautiful. Although she looked completely different from the type of prey that Alexandre chased in his university days, they were tall, with blonde hair, big breasts and a sexy charisma. But his employer, had always been a little experimental when it came to women. But there was one thing they all had in common, even his late fiancée Mlle Danielle Eliecieux, all of them were surrounded by this femme fatale aura. Lillian's bodyguard fitted much more into Alexandre's prey scheme, Nicolas dryly noticed.

But Lillian de Clermont was, rather like an innocent sweet bunny who wallowed in the shadow of the big bad lion, careless and also a little lost. She was petite and small, seemed almost fragile. Nicolas never thought Alexandre would go for a woman like that. But as it seemed, this pretty bunny had his heart in her hands anyway. He could tell by the smile on his old friend's face. He had been working for Alexandre de Valois for nine years and knew him even longer. He saw when someone got under the skin of his boss and his wife Lillian got deep beneath his skin. But who was the child in her arm? Nicolas tried to remain calm in the face of his realization. Later, he absolutely had to hold a small meeting with his co-workers and inculcate them to keep their mouths shut. He could not believe that Alexandre was so careless!

"Guh..." Adrien moaned and buried his head in Alexandre's crook of the neck, it was quite early. But Alexandre had an important meeting at 9 AM. Which is why they had to leave so early. Since he was going to stay in London for a few days, he wanted Lily and Adrien to accompany him so that he could sleep peacefully at night and not have to worry his head off. "There's still time before boarding begins for my employee. Won't you sit down and rest for a while? You look tired."

"Um... I haven't had my coffee yet and someone kept me up late last night. Where do you get your energy from?!" Adrien and Alexandre had a hell of fun last night watching Lily loosing out on UNO because the girl suffered a severe run of bad luck. The fun lasted until around 11 pm, when Adrien collapsed on the floor, exhausted as hell.

At five o'clock in the morning the alarm clock rang and Lily had to get her cranky darling out of bed to follow Alexandre to the airport. Since Alexandre had already left home earlier because he had to do something in the office before leaving.

Alexandre led Lily to a seating area. "You can sleep on the plane later. Would you like a black coffee?"

Lily shook her head. "Can I have a mocha, please?" Lily mumbled and let herself sink into the soft leather where she could close her eyes for a moment while Alexandre instructed one of his employees to get his wife a mocha.

Several other members of the company, besides Nicolas, Alexandre's personal assistant, came along. They were essential for the project with their London partner and had to attend meetings and conferences there. All of them were men from elite circles of their profession, dressed in noble suits, and proud to work under such a brilliant man like Alexandre de Valois. As if hypnotized, they watched this completely foreign side of their CEO. They had also heard the rumours about the woman who supposedly had captured the heart of Alexandre de Valois. But nobody really wanted to believe it. After all, the reporters didn't know the stone-cold CEO as well as they knew him. And yet, many of them were staring straight at their enchanted employer. It was something they couldn't believe, but it was true!

Fortunately, the intercom announced that the plane was now ready for boarding. As they sat in a delimited part of the private plane, Lily took out a book to read, but fell asleep next to Alexandre shortly afterwards.

After a long flight, they finally arrived in London. They were all tired from the journey, but they could not rest for a while, as they were immediately welcomed at the airport by Alexandre's business partner, who greeted his guests in fluent French. Lily was a little surprised that since they were in Great Britain, Alexandre and his people surely had an excellent command of the English language.

But when a certain Johnathan Baring greeted her with a: "Who is this beautiful woman?", Alexandre pulled his arm around her waist, possessively. It occurred to her that the two men had a history together.