Married to the loveless CEO-Chapter 83 - 20-To do list
"A friend," Cia answered.
"Good. I hope it stays that way, Fi...is mine, always been and I have been with him since we were kids. I won’t let some nobody take him from me, understand?" Bree blurted. Sentencia was too stunned to reply.
"I hope you do, I have been waiting for him for a long time now. Watched him succeed, watched him fool around with other women..." this was the first woman he was so serious about and so she was afraid to lose him.
"I just hope you get my point, because I won’t let it slide, I won’t lose him without putting up a fight," she added.
Cia opened her mouth to say something, to tell this insecured psycho that she wasn’t interested in taking Fi away from her. But she brushed passed her and left the room before Cia could even voice the words.
***
Olivia was so glad to be finally out of the villa, and out to have something to do for the first time, something to keep her mind busy.
Claire was currently showing her around the bookstore. There was a stair leading to the up floor of the bookstore which could be viewed from the first floor when looking upwards.
A woman who always kept the bookstore clean and free from dust wasn’t introduced yesterday but Claire eventually introduced Olivia to her today.
There were so many books in here and a lot were just capturing her eyes. She picked one up and stared at it for a while.
"Do you want to have it?" she heard Claire say.
"Oh, yeah. How much is it?" Olivia searched for a price tag but stopped when Claire responded with;
"You can have it," she said.
"Really?" Olivia asked.
"Of course. Just say it’s my welcome gift to you," Claire replied.
"You really don’t have to," Olivia responded. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶
"It’s okay. It’s not because I have to, I want to, have it," Claire pointed out.
"Thank you," Olivia responded.
The day just flew by quickly. Leonard took in a breath as he got out of his car and walked into the building.
He wanted to go upstairs but halted when his eyes had a brief glimpse of Olivia at the dining room. He didn’t know why he didn’t ignore her, it was as if his legs had minds of their own because he soon found himself in front of her.
She was as sleep on the table, her hand held a book she was reading. He sat on the chair close to her and stared intently at her.
This woman...
He was still so very much angry at her. But to hate and despise...
He trailed off when a piece of her hair fell to her face. His hand reached instinctly to remove it but it halted. Why should he?
He eventually pushed the hair to the back of her ear and it made her to wake up when she felt him brush on the skin around her face.
Her eyes that were still so sleepy stared back at him, she sat up immediately when she realized it was him.
"D-Did you just return?" she asked and he nodded. Not like he was concerned or anything but he just felt like asking;
"What about you? When will you usually close from the bookstore?"
"The bookstore closes by five PM but the journey back to the villa takes about thirty more minutes," she replied.
"Okay." he nodded and stood up to leave.
She stood up as well but to hold his arm as she made him to halt.
She let go slowly, "I want us to reconcile. I sincerely apologize for using you, I have my own pride but I swallowed it to tell you these because I’m sincerely sorry and I’ll like us to maintain a good relationship, for the baby’s sake"
He didn’t respond for some while.
"Tsk," he voiced. Have some pride? She really had the guts to say that, to talk about pride?!
"I thought you had no pride that’s why you went that far with me just to get what you want for your family. What else do you need from me Olivia?
"As you had planned with your family, Shipman enterprises has been funded by Yul enterprises. I hope that brother of yours manages it well this time because you aren’t going to receive a dime from Yul enterprises anymore.
"Our relationship is going to remain like this, this is good enough, close enough and I’m still going to push through with the divorce," he explained.
"You think your parents are going to let you divorce me?" she replied. Her hands gripped the edge of the table as he closed their distance and leaned towards her.
"Do I look like I will give a damn of what they will think or say when that time comes?" he asked and walked away after some while of silence.
She didn’t get him at times, because sometimes, he gave her these feelings that they were cool but when she tries to reach out to him, he always pushes her out.
She told herself, she was even working towards it, to not just care anymore, to not care if she was married to him, to not care about what he thought of her or his hurtful words at times.
But she just thought it would be best if they maintained a fairly positive relationship around each other, not this enmity, for the baby’s sake.
***
"Hey what’s up Olivia?" Claire’s voice startled Olivia a little.
"Are you okay?" she added and took the books from Olivia, she was arranging the books on the racks but due to being so immersed in her thoughts, she was arranging the books in the wrong pattern.
"I’m fine. I’m sorry, let me," Olivia responded. They both arranged the books on the racks and shelves in the right pattern now.
"I know you aren’t fine, Olivia. You might be two years older than me but I can still give good advices, you can trust me. Wisdom isn’t really always by age," Claire pouted which made Olivia chuckle.
"I’m not sure if I should go into all the details," Olivia contemplated deeply.
"You don’t have to. But from the way this has been going on for days now, I can tell it’s about your man right?," the word ’man’ brought blood to Olivia’s cheeks. Her man? Not technically.
"It is about your man. So what happened?" Claire insisted.
"I did something. Something wrong, now he is so mad at me. I want to reconcile with him, for our unborn baby’s sake-"
"You’re pregnant! Oh my gosh congrats," Claire cuts in. They have gotten closer these passed few days but Olivia couldn’t believe she had missed to mention that detail.
"Yeah, thank you. I’m already in the last part of the first trimester," Olivia replied.
"Wow, congratulations," Claire said once more.
"But wait, for your baby’s sake not for your love for him. Don’t you guys love each other?" Claire asked, already well aware of the memo that not all marriages nowadays were based on love.
"It’s complicated," Olivia responded.
"How do you feel towards him?" Claire asked and Olivia thought deeply.
"Honestly, I don’t understand what I feel towards him. I don’t know if it is mere affection or if it is guilt for what I did," Olivia answered.
"But the bottom line is, you want the both of you to make up?" Claire inquired and Olivia nodded.
"Well, you will have to try the 20- To do list for magical and rapid reconciliation," Claire replied.
"The what now?" Olivia questioned.
"The 20- To do list for magical and rapid reconciliation. It always helps me with my boyfriend and I’m sure it will work on your case too," Claire replied.
"What is it then?" Olivia inquired so interested and Claire leaned closer with a naughty grin on her pretty face.
...
Olivia decided to start the 20- To do list the next day morning. It was twenty things to do to make your man forgive you no matter how angry he was with you.
With the kind of person Leo was, she doubts if this will work but she will have to give it a try. Besides the things on the list weren’t that hard to do...well, at least not all of them.
She wanted to start with {1. Cook for him, breakfast, lunch, dinner and if possible, breakfast in bed}. It was as if Claire’s mischievous face kept lingering in her mind as she remembered that line.
Luckily, Olivia knew how to cook but Leo was an early riser and she...well...
Sometimes.
She just hopes she wakes up in time tomorrow to make breakfast for him, she even set an alarm, maybe she’ll even wake up early enough before him to give him breakfast in bed.
Her eyes flutter open and she saw that she was actually cuddling Leo in bed. He didn’t cuddle her back instead he was wide awake and reacted a little stiff as he didn’t expect this.
It was the first time she hugged him in bed since they started sharing a bed together, they always kept to their sides of the bed but it was as if her body were reciting the to do list in her sleep.
{2. Make advances to cuddle him in bed}
She moved away from him at once, "I’m sorry," he didn’t respond. She felt like face palming herself, what the heck Olivia?!
Why did she apologize? She was already doing it, she should have just went on with it, he didn’t even push her away.
She managed to go back to sleep since it was still some few hours till morning.
"Hmm..." she slowly wakes up. Her eyes glanced at the other side of the bed and Leo was gone. Maybe he was getting ready for work, but she gets she will have to push two things forward.
{... Breakfast in bed}
{3. Help him get ready for work}
But wait!
Her eyes opened fully as she sat up on the bed. Where’s the time?
She clicked open her phone and her eyes widened in shock that her 6AM alarm rang and she didn’t hear it to have woken up, instead the current time was-
-8AM!
What the...
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