The CEO’s Billion Dollar Bride
Chapter 183 - 164. The Deepest Love

Chapter 183: 164. The Deepest Love

"Child?" Mario Jensen seemed to not understand the meaning of her words, as he carefully chewed on these two characters, only managing to speak with difficulty after a long while. "So they had a child? That means I can’t go find Ivy after all, since they’re already married. If I don’t give up now, I’ll just be the mistress... the male one..."

Mario Jensen was murmuring in a low tone, as if speaking to Lina Miller and also talking to himself. By the end of it, Lina could no longer hear what he was saying clearly, but the sorrowful sound seemed to be carved out of the deepest part of his heart, soaked with blood and tears.

Making it hard to bear watching!

Lina tilted her head up and took a deep breath, barely managing to calm her turbulent emotions: "Fabian Nala, let’s not talk anymore, I’ll take you home!"

As she spoke, she pulled her hand out of his grasp and quickly returned to the driver’s cab, starting the car and driving towards the Jensen family mansion...

"I don’t want to go home; I don’t want to return to that cold and empty house!"

Just after they had driven some distance, the man in the passenger seat began to complain like a child, presumably from the effects of too much alcohol. Lina had never seen him so out of control before!

Fabian Nala had always been sensible and serious. He took over the Jensen family enterprise at the age of twenty, and ever since, he was always seen as cold, decisive, meticulous, and reserved. Lina had once asked him if it was because women preferred men like Michael Gordon – carefree, charming, and handsome.

Attractive, sweet-talking, romantic, gentle – not only could he make a woman happy, he could also cheer up a child.

As for men like Fabian Nala, although his heart could be soft, his persona was always perceived as cold and hard. Did women not like that kind of man at all?

At the time, Lina didn’t answer his question, instead just smiling and brushing it off. But she had wanted to tell him that there were women who liked men like him; just that he never took notice of the women who did!

As deeply as he loved Ivy Aretha, Lina loved him just as much!

From the very first day she met him, he never noticed her.

Despite knowing from the beginning that his heart belonged to someone else, it didn’t stop Lina’s self-destructive devotion to him.

For so many years, Lina silently stayed by his side, offering him the most serene love!

"Lina, I told you, I’m not going home!"

Mario Jensen’s stubborn voice interrupted her thoughts. Lina gripped the steering wheel tighter and glanced at the man beside her before asking hesitantly, "Then where do you want to go?"

"I want to go home with you. Ivy doesn’t want me anymore, and you can’t abandon me either!"

Like a child, Mario Jensen closed his eyes and dozed off in his seat, muttering to himself, "My mother left, my father doesn’t want me anymore and plans to leave me, Ivy got married to someone else... Lina, you’re all I have left; you can’t abandon me!"

"Screech..."

A sharp noise erupted in that moment, the sound of tires scraping the ground made a strong impact on the eardrum. Lina gasped for air and finally stopped the car at the roadside. Then, she leaned on the steering wheel, panting heavily.

What was he talking about?

Mario Jensen was just rambling nonsense while intoxicated, but Lina was listening with more than just a little intent!

A tidal wave of emotion swept through Lina’s heart. Over the years, she’d fantasized more than once of him saying such words to her, and she kept wanting to hear them.

The day when he finally said those words came, but under these circumstances!

"You know very well that I would never be the one to abandon you!"

Lina watched as he lay slumped against the side of the driver’s cab, semi-closed eyes revealing a face full of desolation intertwined with exquisite features that were tortuously furrowed, which pained Lina to behold. "I won’t go away; I’ll make you some hangover soup, and you’ll feel better after drinking it!"

Although she only intended to quickly reassure him, Lina’s hand naturally reached up to soothe his tense brow. Touching his face full of anguish, her heart inexplicably ached a bit.

"You just lie down for now, and I’ll be right..." Before she could finish her words, the hand on his forehead was firmly grasped.

Moments later, she was pulled towards him, and before she could react to the sudden surprise, Mario Jensen tumbled her into his embrace. In the next instant, Mario Jensen flipped over, pushing Lina underneath him.

The man’s kiss, laced with the strong scent of alcohol, engulfed Lina in overpowering waves that left her gasping for air, her hands instinctively pushing against his chest.

"Fabian Nala, you’re drunk, let me go, I’m not Ivy..." Before Lina could finish saying Ivy’s name, all her senses and consciousness were drowned out by the kisses they shared.

Pressed firmly between the quilt, her clothes were being removed. When Mario Jensen’s hand slipped inside her clothes, Lina knew very clearly what he intended to do!

In fact, she could refuse. A drunk man who couldn’t even walk steadily wouldn’t be able to force himself on her, right?

All she had to do was push him away, then slap him, and everything would end. But Lina hesitated!

She didn’t stop Mario Jensen’s advances, nor did she remind him that she wasn’t Ivy Aretha. For a moment, Lina even thought that if he indeed slept with her, it would be something she would eagerly accept!

For so many years, she had secretly loved him, not daring to let him know. The pain of that unrequited love was known only to her. She owed him a debt, and she had repaid that debt by joining the Jensen family enterprise and staying by his side. But she had never dared to tell him she loved him.

She feared that if she ever confessed her love, she would lose even the chance to see him, let alone be intimate with him, or even do the most private of things, like what was happening right now – a scenario she had hardly even dared to dream of!

When an unattainable dream suddenly became reality, should she take advantage of the situation or bring him back to reality?