The Wife I Never Met
Chapter 156

Ciara immediately took Lina in to her arms and hugged her.

” Ohh baby, you missed me?”

The little girl nodded her head indicating that she did in fact miss her.

Hillary also came out of the room, following Lina. She looked at her daughter seriously and then asked.

” How did it go?”

Ciara shook her head and shrunk her shoulders before answering her.

” It wasn’t bad, however I’m still not sure if it would really help. I have booked another session, hopefully there’ll be progress by then.”

Hillary smiled and brushed her daughter on her shoulder and said,

” Don’t rush it, remember that these things do take time.”

” I know.”

She answered in a low voice, she then told her that they would be going out with Lina shortly as they had planned to go to the themed park with Liam, which Hillary didn’t mind at all as she too had some things to do back at home. Besides she was able to spend some time with her granddaughter after such a long time of not seeing her.

” That’s ok, have fun. But don’t forget to bring her over to the manor more often, your dad and granddad would also love to see her.

” Don’t worry mom, I will.”

Ciara responded with a smile, since it was Hillary who invited her to bring her daughter to the manor, she too was willing to try her best at mending their relationship.

Soon after Hillary had left Ciara also packed their bags and prepared to leave with her daughter.

When they got out of the house, she noticed that the driver was still there waiting for her.

” Hey you didn’t have to wait for us, I could’ve drove to the office.”

The man raised his hand up and said,

” I’m only doing my job ma’am.”

After closing the doors, he drove them straight to the Jones headquarters building in the city.

This was Ciara’s first time going in to the building after such a long time, and most definitely Lina’s first time as well.

Nothing had really changed, the interior was just as masculine as it was the last time she was here, people were still staring like before, it was probably because they were seeing their bosse’s daughter for the first time, the receptionist was still as fake as she was before, trying to curry favor Ciara.

‘This woman is so pretentious.’

Ciara thought to herself, but her thoughts were soon interrupted by the receptionist.

” Congratulations Mrs Jones on your upcoming wedding, you see, I would buy you a good gift but I don’t really know what you like and what your style is. How about Mrs Jones, we go out on a lunch date together, who knows maybe we can be just best friends.”

Ciara still remembers quite clearly how she treated her the first she was here and wouldn’t want to be friends with a person like that, so she politely declined her invitation.

” I’m sorry but my days are tight, especially with the up coming wedding, I can not even breath. Besides I don’t think it would be appropriate for us to be very close, since I’m technically your employer.”

She then left immediately not wanting to entertain the conversation any longer. She wasn’t about to let herself be used like that, if that girl wants her career to progress , she would then need to put in the effort just like the others.

She walked to the elevator, which took her to the president’s office and passed through the people working in that area. They all looked at her and Lina as they passed through.

Once she arrived at Liam’s office, she raised her hand to knock but was beat by the person on the other side of the door as they opened first.

” How did you know that we’re already here?”

Ciara asked as she was surprised at how fast Liam had opened the door without her even knocking.

Liam on the other side smiled and pretended to have known all along that she was there at the door.

” You are my wife and we’ve been together for so many years, so yes now I can sense your presence.”

He then stepped to the side allowing them entry in to his office.

” Hug baby.”

Said Lina as she broke loose from her mother and walked over to Liam to get her own hug from daddy, she then laid her head over on Liam’s chest.

” Have Lina been a good girl?.”

Lina nodded her head still being clingy and not letting go of her father.

” Lina behaved.”

” Good girl, now Lina will get a treat for being good, ok.”

Ciara looked at the duo and felt that Lina was just being a traitor, she left her all alone as soon as she saw her father.

” You guys can bond on another day, but now we really need to get going, ok.”

When Liam heard Ciara’s words, he whispered in to Lina’s ear.

” Somebody is getting jealous.”

He then laughed and even though Lina didn’t understand what Liam meant she too Laughed along with her dad.

” You do know that I can hear you right.”

The duo didn’t pay her any mind and continued to laugh, but when Liam noticed that Ciara was about to get mad, He stopped teasing and regained his seriousness.

” Ok ok, get your things and let’s go.”

They left right after Liam briefed his secretary about a few things, and then they drove straight to the park.

This was Lina’s first adventure but she didn’t look like she was enjoying herself. The rides were either too slow for her or she was too young for the more thrilling rides.

Noticing this both Ciara and Liam thought it would be better to treat her to something they knew she loved, and that was sugar.

The family of three walked to the stalls at the park and as they passed a man making cotton candy, Lina’s eyes beamed with excitement and began pulling Liam shirt.

” Dada, yummy candy. Please.”

Sure enough Liam couldn’t resist that and so they stopped at that stall and got her the cotton candy in her favorite colors which were blue and pink.

They walked around the packed park for an hour more then they thought it was now time to get dinner.

They opted for a restaurant which wasn’t far from where they were and one that had good children’s menu.

When they got to the restaurant they were allocated seating which was convenient for them as they had a young child with them, they ordered their dishes and then chatted while waiting for heir food to arrive.

” Tomorrow is the last day that we can meet up with the planner for our cake tasting, will you be able to go?”

Ciara asked this question knowing very well that Liam was swamped with work as they’ll be taking some time off after the wedding.

” There’s a lot to do at the office, but give me some time I’ll try to make it.”

Ciara shook her head and said,

” No, if you have a lot to do, we can always ask our friends to help us, you know they are always more than happy to help us out. Stacey can be there on time, can you talk to Matthew, maybe he too would be able to help us out.”

When he heard this, Liam looked at Car in suspicion,

” Hey what are you up to now?”

He knew right then that his wife had started again with her matching game.

In response Ciara only shrugged her shoulders and asked,

” What?, they’ll be only tasting cake nothing major.”

“Mhmm.”

They were then disturbed by the waiter who had brought their food to the table. Once he was gone, Ciara started cutting Lina’s food in to bite sizes so that was able to eat on her own without being fed.

They continued to eat their food and would talk from time to time, but was interrupted by Lina in he middle of their conversation as she started shouting.

” Stay!, Stay!”

The duo looked around to see the person Lina was so happy to see here and that was when they spotted both Matthew and Stacey walking in the restaurant holding hands as they were led to their table.

By the time Stacey saw the family of three it was way too late for her to yank off her hand from Matthew’s grip as they had already seen it but she still did. Matthew on the other side did not care if they saw them or not, everything was till as normal.

” Hey why didn’t you guys tell us that you were coming here, we could’ve had a double date or something.”

He asked as he pulled Stacey over to Liam’s table to greet them, just as Liam was about to chase him away, Ciara did the total opposite.