Trapped in the Desire of Mandul CEO
Chapter 26 Autumn

Time is rolling so fast. The day changed was not felt. But the sky remains the same. Extensively covering the world. Emitting peace among the whiteness of mega.

Meanwhile, the wounded heart is still confined by past episodes. The extent to which the body flies high, in the end also all the memories. The stronger the heart forgets. The more tightly the soul is bound.

"Why, Son?" William stood beside Louisa who was staring at the falling leaves from behind the window.

Louisa turned her head for a few seconds and returned engrossed in looking at the leaves swept by the wind. "I'm just thinking of childhood, Pa...."

William raised his right hand, wanting to embrace the beloved princess. But in the end, he broke it. "Papa remembers very well, you love autumn."

"And hates the winter" Louisa said in a cold tone. Because in that season, his happiness has a whole family, lost by selfishness.

William gulped. Of course, his memory still clearly remembers, where his affair with a woman was witnessed directly by his wife and children. "You still have that pain, son?"

"Sure!" Louisa stared intently, like an idol.

"And you still hate Papa?" lirih William's.

Louisa shook her head. "I was never taught to hate others. Even if that person has made a fatal mistake!"

William smiled wryly. He understood, it was not easy to heal the wounds of the past embedded in his daughter's heart. "I'm sorry Papa...."

"Papa has apologized more than a thousand times" Louisa replied. "So, there's nothing more to forgive. It's over and it won't be the same."

William nodded. "You're right, son. Apologies don't change anything. Will not return what has been lost."

In the midst of the relationship between father and son, there was a very high fortress. Where the fort was built by treason as well as falsehood. Only those from broken homes could understand how Louisa was feeling. How hard he struggled through the hard times.

"Oh yes Pa. Tomorrow, I'm occupying the house that the late opa gave me. Because the day after tomorrow, I've started working." Louisa switched the conversation because she did not want to dissolve again in sadness. Every time William talks about the past, the seeds of hatred seem to be re-embedded in the heart.

"Just stay here, son. Accompany Papa, "please William, do not want to separate again with a child who had been wasted.

Louisa's lips were drawn thin. "I've been used to living alone for a long time, Pa. I don't want to trouble Papa or Aunt Natalie."

William can only resign with Louisa's stubbornness. He could not get angry nor force the girl to stay with him. "All right, princess. But, Papa asks every late afternoon come here. Let Papa not be lonely."

"You're all right, son..." William ruffled his daughter's hair.

"I'm not a child anymore, Pa.." Louisa's petulant doesn't like her hair being messy because she's been struggling to get her hair done to look beautiful.

"You'll always be his little girl Papa, Louis." William stroked Louisa's head affectionately.

The second conversation begins with tension. However, it can end with joking and laughter. They both healed each other. Guilt is also heartache.

The familiarity of the father and son, apparently did not want Natalie. Slowly, envy and spite permeated the middle-aged woman. She really dislikes seeing her husband get so warm with Louisa. As for his daughter, William was very stiff and cold. Therefore, hearing that Louisa was leaving her home, she felt happy.

"Good.the sooner you go, the better. Because if you're still hitching a ride here, I'll make sure you don't calm down!!!" muttered Natalie who peeked at the intimacy of her husband with his stepson from the gap of the door leaf.

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"Report, Mr. Axelle!" someone said across the phone.

"How, Frans? What good news for me?" axelle asked her confidant.

"I have managed to find the residence of the girl you are looking for" said the person again.

"really?" Axelle pulled her lips to one corner. "It turns out it's very easy to trace the girl's whereabouts." Axelle plays her chin. His face looks so mysterious.

"Yes, Sir. And as per request, Wednesday now, he has started working at the company owned by Mr. Frans, "said, then sent a photo featuring a job application letter and an email sent to the girl.

Axelle smiled happily. "Well, thanks for the information, Frans. I am satisfied with your work!!"

"Together, sir." Frans hung up on her phone call.

Axelle sat leaning back and twirled a pen in her left hand. Now, he could not distinguish which feeling of regret, which is mere obsession. His mouth said, he wanted to meet Louisa to admit wrongdoing. But far below the conscious. He really wanted the girl. There was a curiosity tucked inside the heart, as a normal man.

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