Seeing the mother and son hugging and crying, my heart ached.
"Dad! Divorce this old witch! I don't want her to be my mother!" Seeing me unmoved, Elio ran to Theo and cried.
I'd heard this nickname from Elio more than once. Usually, when he and Alexa were playing in the playroom.
Whenever I made something delicious and brought it to him, but now he wouldn't ask me to hold him and feed him like he used to.
Instead, he'd hide in Alexa's arms and the two of them would curl up together and badmouth me.
I knew all this, but I didn't want to think about it.
But I never thought he'd say it to my face today. "Elio! What's wrong with you? How dare you call your mom that?"
"Have you forgotten how good your mom was to you?"
Yes, I give almost everything I had into this child.
I even had a miscarriage while trying to take him to the hospital with a high fever.
At that time, I completely doted on him as if he were my own child.
I thought that as long as I treated him sincerely, we could still have a complete family, even without children of our own.
However, the family I once imagined vanished when Alexa returned.
Alexa, who was only 20 at the time, gave birth to the child and left him just a few months after caring for him.
At the time, Theo was busy starting his own business, completely overwhelmed and had to hire a nanny to care for the child.
But after accidentally discovering that the nanny had given Elio sleeping pills, he tried to find another woman.
After much consideration, he chose me, who was also his secretary.
He said, "I'm impressed with your work ability and I'm confident you can be my wife and Elio's mother."
He asked, "Serena, will you be my wife?"
At that moment, my heart was moved. No one would refuse a man worth over 100 million dollars, with stunning looks and an incredible body.
The first time I saw Elio, he was covered in prickly heat. He was less than a year old, pale and thin and nothing like his beautiful, gentle and charming self.
A hospital examination revealed all the abnormalities. So I quit my job to focus on caring for Elio.
Then, I truly kept Theo's promise, taking care of his daily needs and our child's and being a wonderful wife and mother.
By day, I was Theo's most capable secretary; by night, I was his wife and the mother of our child.