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Chapitre 54: Chapter fifty-four: Mom meet the 'boyfriend'

Madi's POV:

"You're boyfriend is here?" I bit my lips when she turned to me with the same wide eyes as mine. "I thought you said he's busy? Ohh... did he follow you all the way from Chicago?"

"Uhm.."

"Oh my baby, I'm so excited to meet him! Come on!" she said as she stood up and pulled my hand. 

"Mom...?"

"Come on, Madielyn! I can't wait to see him!" she excitedly pulled me to the front door. Yeah, she's more excited than me. 

-'Oh dear God! Why did you let my Mom be single at this age? Why didn't you give her the second man in her life?"

I gulped when I saw him standing outside the gate, wearing only a plain white shirt and denim pants. He also wears black sunglasses and with a suitcase in his right hand. He's so hot, sexy and good looking in his simple outfit, but I've felt again the same feeling of disappointment when I remember how many times I've tried to call him since last night and how many text messages I've sent to him just to ask him if he's still willing to go with me. But I got no response from all of it. 

He took off his sunglasses and looked at me with a hint of regret in his both eyes. Then the guard pressed the automatic controller to open the huge gate and do you know what was the next thing that happened? My dearest mother ran to Gabriel and hugged him tightly with the biggest grin in her both eyes and then she turned to me. 

"Oh my God, Madielyn! Am I already in heaven? Am I seeing God now? Oh gosh, your boyfriend is so handsome!"

I bit my lips when I saw Gabriel's eyes sparkle with amusement as he watched me and my Mom. 

"He's more handsome than Tom Cruise!" she said as she smiled widely and I need to put a hand on my face to cover myself from blushing. 

-'I feel you, Mom, but dear God! I am asking you again, why did you let her be single at this moment?'-

"Hi, I'm Cherry, Madi's mother." she offered him her hand for a handshake and he immediately accepted it, bringing it to his lips. And I almost rolled my eyes when I saw Mom's reaction. 

"I'm Gabriel, Madi's boyfriend. It's an honor for me to meet you, Mrs Davis," he said smiling, but I noticed how my Mom stiffened at his last words. 

"Ohh... yeah, it's also nice to finally meet the one who captured my daughter's heart." she smiled and just ignored his words. "By the way, Madi said you're busy. Was that the reason you're late now?"

"Y-Yes Ma'am, I'm sorry if I leave your daughter alone in her flight."

"Oh, it's okay, but please, just call me Cherry or Aunt Cherry or maybe you can also call me Mom, like Madi." she winked at him. 

"Can I choose the last one?"

"Oh sure, sweetie! Call me Mom. I would appreciate that."

I was just watching them exchange their sweet and cute comments.

"Love,"

I also stiffened when he turned to me and called me with that term of endearment and because we were in front of my mother, I need to behave normally again... the same old Madi in front of her. 

I smiled at him and pouted. "I thought you were busy!"

He smiled back and pulled me into a tight hug. His manly scent mixed with his cologne filled my nostrils. 

"I'm sorry. I just had an important thing to do, that's why I can't answer my phone. I'm sorry." he whispered softly in my ear as he repeatedly kissed my head and my temple. 

-'Yeah, I already know. You're busy with her and who am I to complain, I'm just nothing to you'-

I gulped to control my emotions. When I didn't say anything, he pulled back and looked at me directly in the eye. 

"I'm sorry." He said, his voice barely a whisper as he cupped both my cheeks. I stared at him and I don't know if he saw the hurt in both my eyes because he muttered a curse very lowly.

"Damned it!"

He kissed me twice on my forehead before pulling me again and hugged me tightly. He put his head in the crook of my neck, whispering his apology, but our little scene came different to my mother's eyes. For her, Gabriel was just apologising for coming late and for leaving me alone on my flight. 

"Ahh... you're so sweet, my babies! Young love, sweet love," she said dreamily as she smiled widely at us. 

I pulled back and took a deep breath before trying to smile again. 

"It's okay love, at least you came."

I kissed his cheek so I can show my mother that there's nothing wrong between us.

"So, I think I don't need to introduce my Mom because she has already introduced herself," I said looking at my mother who was glaring at me playfully. "And Mom, for sure you already know my boyfriend's name, right?"

"Hmp! Don't mind her Gab," she said grabbing Gabriel's arm. 

"Nickname basis in an instant?" I just asked myself in a very low voice.

"Muttering something, Madielyn? You can share it with us."

I bit my lips, she heard me! "Oh, it's nothing Mom," I said chuckling. "What I mean is... shall we go inside?"

"Oh yeah, just put your suitcase there. Someone's gonna take it inside. Let's go."

My Mom leads to the front door and I felt Gabriel's hand intertwine with mine. I looked at him with a silent question in my eyes, but he just smiled and kissed me on the forehead. 

When we were inside, I noticed how his eyes wandered throughout the living room. 

"Madi, show Gabriel his room first and then come back in here so we can serve him your best dishes." she winked at me and we were about to turn around when she called me again. "Or it's better to let him stay in your room. You know what I mean." she wiggled her eyebrows and I heard Gabriel chuckle behind me and my face blushed in thousands of shades of tomato. 

"Mom?" I glared at her but she just laughed at me. 

"Why? You're both adults, you can do---"

"Oh my gosh! Don't listen to my Mom!" I pulled Gabriel's hand. I really wish the floor would open up and swallow me at the moment when he's still laughing behind me. 

"I like your Mom., he said when we were about to go up the huge staircase. 

"I'm sorry, she's not a conservative person. You know," I shrugged.

"No, I said I like her. It's really fun talking to her."

"I know, but she's also a straightforward person. If she likes you, you will know immediately from how she greeted you. But if not, she would never beat around the bush and will tell you personally and immediately when she sees you." I sighed letting go of his hand, but he took it again. 

I looked at him but his eyes weren't on me but on the frames hanging on the wall as we climbed up the upstairs. 

"You didn't tell me you live in a huge mansion and you're also a princess."

I know it was just a joke, so I just smiled and shrugged.

"Don't worry, it's not just you who didn't know about it."

"You mean, some of your friends didn't know you live in a castle?"

"It's not a castle. Yeah, it's a huge house, but for me, it's more a home than a mansion."

"But why did you choose to live in a small apartment in Chicago?"

I laughed at his question. In fact, I couldn't count in my head how many times I heard that question. 

"Because for me it's not important whether you live in a house or a castle----"

"No, what I mean is that you used to live here. How did you adjust so easily?"

"Ahm... maybe because I'm used to living in a simple way. Yes, I grew up here, but my Mom always told me to keep my feet on the ground. She never let me used to live with a nanny or with maids around me. She let me wash my own clothes, clean my own room and everything a girl should know about being a woman."

"Really?" he asked me as if he couldn't believe the new information he heard from me. 

"Yeah. Really." I smiled and nodded. "Here's your room." I opened the door which was just next to my room. "The next one is my room." I pointed to the next door. "So...?" I asked after he wandered his eyes around. 

"Well, it's nice and cosy," he said putting both hands in his pants pocket. "Can I see your room?"

"And why?" I frowned.

He shrugged. "Nothing. I just want to compare your room here and your room in our house."

I gulped when he said 'our house' instead of 'his house'. 

"Okay." I shrugged.


Chapitre 55: Chapter fifty-five: She is a true Princess

Gabriel's POV:

"Madi, can I borrow your boyfriend for a few minutes?"

Madi and I both chuckled at her Mom's question. We're currently in the kitchen and she and her Mom were preparing food for dinner. Although they have maids, they choose to cook their own meals. 

"Mom, what kind of question is that? Can't you just simply say you're going to talk to him?" Madi asked as she cut the vegetables. 

"Shh! You just made it more formal, but it's still the same!"

"Okay, fine!" she said rolling her eyes. I can't help but laugh at their way of conversation. They were like best friends rather than a mother and a daughter. 

"Let's go, Gabriel." her mother took my hand and pulled me out of the kitchen, but we heard Madi ask her again. 

"Where are you taking him, Mom?"

She put her index finger to her lips, gesturing for me to keep quiet. "I just want to talk to him, that's all. Don't worry he's all yours."

And by that time, I laughed really hard. We heard her complaining in the kitchen but her Mom ignored her and continued to drag me upstairs. At first, I was confused as to why she was pulling me and where we are going, but she has already answered my silent questions. 

"I'll show you something, but don't tell my stubborn daughter about this. It's just our secrets, okay?"

I smiled and nodded. We continued upstairs to the hallway and when we got to the end, she opened a door and the light switch inside. And my eyes widened for what I saw... trophies, certificates in frames that were half hanging on the wall and half were inside the glass cabinets. There were also some pictures... pictures of Madi in school uniform, with medals and in the oval field and some were in front of the school and many more that I couldn't point where. 

"These have all been her achievements in schools, in work and business."

I crunched my eyebrows with the word business but remained quiet. I just let her continue what she was saying. 

"Here, let's start with this one."

She opened the door of the glass cabinet and pointed Madi's photo in a sports uniform that I don't know which sport is and an oval field in her background. 

"This one was taken in her high school days. She was only fourteen when she won in a track and field competition."

"S-She won in that sport? She's an athlete before?"

"Yes, she's an athlete, son, when she's in high school. She always brought a medal, trophy or certificate for that sport."

My mouth hung open with the information. I can't believe she played sports too.

"And who would have thought she would enroll in a cooking school in college? I thought she would take something related to sports, but she took up Hotel and Restaurant Management."

And then she giggled, but the frown in my forehead just got deeper. She took up HRM? She enrolled in a cooking school? But as I remember, she took business in college? 

"W-Wait," I said interrupting her for a while. "Madi enrolled in a cooking school in college? But I thought she took a business course?"

She laughed at me. "Yeah, but that's just her second course after finishing the first one," she said grabbing my hand again. "Come here." she pulled me to the second cabinet of trophies and certificates. 

There were photos of her in front of her school and a very familiar restaurant behind her. She's at the microphone and cutting ribbons, and receiving certificates. And because I don't understand, I turned to Mrs Davis again. 

"Why is she cutting the ribbon in front of this restaurant?" I asked pointing to the one with which she has scissors and a ribbon in her other hand. 

"That one was taken during the grand opening of her first restaurant---"

"She has a restaurant?" I asked cutting her off again. Madi has a restaurant? 

"Ohh... don't you know?" she asked me back, chuckling. "For sure my daughter has a lot of things to discuss with you later. Okay, I'll tell you half of her secrets and I'll let her tell you the rest. Is that okay with you?"

"Y-Yeah... that's fine with me, Mrs Davis," I answered nodding. But I noticed that she suddenly got serious. 

"That's one of the secrets I need to tell you. Madi is the only Davis in this house."

"Huh? What do you mean she's the only Davis in your house?"

"Because her father and I weren't married, so I'm still Petterson until now," she said smiling... again.

"Ohh..." I don't know how to form words right at that moment, but I remember one thing that Madi said to me. "But she said, she has a brother and sister? Where are they?"

"I'm sorry, son, but I think it's better to ask her that instead of me. If she's willing to open up her past life, then it's good, but if she's still not okay, just wait patiently until she's ready."

"It's okay, I'll just try to ask her whenever she's ready about this matter."

"Thank you, son. Let's go back to our topic earlier. As I was saying with this picture, it was when she opened her first restaurant. Are you familiar with the name 'Maiden'?"

My eyebrows furrowed again. That name sounds familiar to me. And my eyes widened in the realization. 

"She owned that restaurant? That fine-dining restaurant in Chicago?"

"Yes, it has now three branches in your city and from what I heard, she's expanding again into four branches."

I was totally blown away by that. Now I know why she didn't accept the money I offered her from our deal. But what still a mystery to me, was the reason she had kept all of this information in her life. She's a secretive and a reserved person. 

"But why did she choose to open her business in Chicago instead of her homeland?"

She smiled at me and then shook her head. "Because my daughter wanted to create her own identity. Her name and her business. She doesn't want to help her old mother with our own business here."

"Was that why she chose to live in just a small apartment?"

"Oh, yes, she doesn't want others to know who she really is. And she hates having bodyguards. You know what, I'm so proud of her accomplishments. She did it on her own, though it sometimes makes me sad that she wants to have her own business rather than be known for being my daughter." she sighed heavily.

"You have a business too, Mom?" but then she smiled widely when she heard me call her 'Mom'. 

"Just keep on calling me that. I like it and I'll make sure you two end up in front of the altar, soon." I gulped with the word 'altar'. "And regarding your question, yes, I also have my own business. If you're familiar with 'Green Ribbon Cakes'?" she asked casually. 

"Green Ribbon like Green Ribbon cakes and pastries?"

"Yes, it's actually my family's business, but as I'm an only child like Madi, I have no choice but to manage it. And this will be my biggest problem in the future, why? Because my only daughter chose to cook instead of baking."

I don't what to say at that moment. Their family owned one of the largest company that makes and sells cakes and pastries in the whole state. And Madi is indeed a princess, but she chose to live in a low profile way. 

We moved to the certificates hanging on the wall. 

"But you know what, I'm glad that she has a boyfriend now." she held my hand and gave me sincere smile. "You are her first boyfriend, son. I hope you can make her happy. I can see both in your eyes, how you love each other. Sometimes, you are going through a rough and difficult part in your relationship, but I hope you can both stay strong and keep each other. As a mother, there are just two things I wanted to ask you in favor. Don't hurt my daughter, son, and last but not the least, love her. Love her the way she deserves. She's tough and strong on the outside, but her heart is too fragile on the inside, Gabriel."

I don't know but I felt like there was cold water poured all over my body. 

"I promise," I said and then her smile widened even more. 

"You know what, I think I like you more than Madi's friend and suitor in college. You're more handsome than him."

My head snapped automatically at her and she winked at me. 

"A friend and a suitor?"


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