CEO's Secret Husband
|45|. Give It to Your Beloved

Aldrich had arrived at Mary's house which was neither large nor small. She was very friendly in her warm living room. Mary looked quite old and her saggy skin wrinkles were clearly visible. The woman is no longer as energetic as she once was due to the age factor. Instead of living with her grown children, she chose to stay alone while knitting to cover up her loneliness. Then look forward to the days when her grandchildren will come once in a while.

"I've just knit a little shirt for my granddaughter who's only been a few months" Mary picked up her half-finished knit, "How? Does it look good?"

Aldrich smiled politely nodding, "Yes, it also looks warm"

Mary's lips smiled widely, looking relieved by her response, "Thank God" She put her knitted items on the table and her head looked up at Aldrich, "Suddenly you came here, you came here, must be something important you need?"

Aldrich smiled slightly, "Your guess is quite accurate"

The crisp laughter typical of the old woman fell down and sounded in the quiet room.

"Say, what do you need young master?"

"That's..I wanted to ask you something about my mom's wedding and.." Aldrich's mouth moved so heavily when he mentioned it.."Papa"

Mary smiled gently, "What do you want to know?"

"How did their wedding ceremony take place?"

The question made Mary remembered with a beautiful, tense and miserable night together. The night where she witnesses a woman who is forced to marry a vampire due to an ambition, "It's hard to say..."

"..."

"That night, the flowers in the back garden again bloomed and bathed beautifully with the moonlight. Your mother appears so charming in a white wedding dress that wraps her smooth, slender body. Her beautiful young face was covered in a trace of fear and her full red lips— seemed to tighten as it held back tears. I was powerless to do anything for him that had begged and even tried to escape despite his failure. Anyway my job is to finish the ceremony to run smoothly"

Aldrich felt sour in his heart. At first glance he could imagine how scared and helpless the mother was that night.

"A pretty gripping atmosphere ensued. I brought a tray with a knife and using it, your father scratched your mother's palm until it bled and did not forget she scratched her own hand. Just like that their palms met in a tight grasp and the black blood of a vampire had mixed with the dark red blood of your human mother. With the meeting of the two bloods, they were officially a husband and wife. At first glance, that was how their wedding ceremony took place"

Aldrich was stunned, "With the meeting of two blood?"

Mary nodded, "I heard so. Vampires get married like that. By binding blood covenant"

Aldrich.

'Uncle Sean didn't lie as it turns out'

'I really did make a mistake'

"Young master, why are you suddenly asking this?"

Aldrich shook his head, "It's nothing, I'm just a little curious"

Mary smiled gently and grabbed Aldrich's cold hand grasping it gently, "It is fate for your mother to meet your father. It wasn't good at first, but they love each other now. So don't hate your father too much"

"Is there anything else you want to ask?"

"Nothing else"

Mary smiled and picked up a freshly finished scarf on her knit last night. It was soft pink like cherry petals, "Initially, I wanted to give it to my first teenage granddaughter, but I forgot that she didn't like pink. So just take it for you"

"But this.."

"You can give this to your lover"

"I-i..."

"Handsome guys like you, must have lovers, right?"

Aldrich doesn't know what to answer. The question made him think of the human girl who had accidentally become his wife.

Mary smiled, "I hope she can like my knitting" Mary placed the scarf on Aldrich's palm.

Imagining Maribel's smooth tie-neck neck, covered with a circle of soft pink scarves, a glimpse of Aldrich can imagine how beautiful and adorable she looks.

"She's gonna love it"

"Good" Mary smiled with relief.

In addition to that at the company, Maribel has just read the flash of a novel that is somehow stranded on a coffee table in her room.

Her entire lunch time ran out by flipping through the romance novel which somehow kept her curious as to what it ended up like.

Tok.dok..

"Come in"

Callie pushed the door and entered. He walked over to Maribel's desk and put down some important documents that needed his signature, "You can read them one more time before coming to these documents.."

"..."

"Mrs Maribel?"

"..."

"Mom?"

Callie looked back and her eyes flickered in surprise at Maribel who was drowning with a novel in her hands, "You read such a boring thing?"