The Billionaire's Contracted Wife [English]

Mr. Hoshi was delighted when he heard what Sato had said. "Please tell my boss ’thank you very much’ and I’ll inform my wife when we get home. I’m sure she will also be delighted."

And Mr. Hoshi wasn’t wrong since Celia was delighted too when he told her.

"In your opinion, do you think we can bring the kids? I’m sure we are not the only one that Madam Ashley and Sir Jones invited."

"Hmm, if you want, I will ask before the upcoming weekend. I can’t believe we will be going to their house. Hahaha!" Mr. Hoshi sang happily to his wife.

Celia raised her brow and stared at her husband. "Why can’t you believe it? I mean our boss is human too. And another thing is that have you forgotten that Ashley is a Filipina? You know what I’m saying, right?" Celia remarked straight away.

Mr. Hoshi smiled at his wife’s comment. Since there was some truth in it, he knew that she still held a grudge against his whole family. He suddenly remembered the day he introduced Celia to his family and his parents as her boyfriend.

The whole family of Mr. Hoshi was against him marrying her as they wanted him to marry another Japanese person. Unfortunately, it was too late as Celia was already pregnant at that time and he needed to take responsibility for her.

Every single cuss and insult were received by Celia from his whole family. But Mr. Hoshi stood up and accepted the responsibility at what he had said and since they were at the proper age at that time, they married each other without needing the permission of their parents.

After they had married, Mr. Hoshi requested to be transferred to the branch office in New Jersey, and it was approved. They flew towards the US five years ago, and they already had two children; but not even once had she stepped into his family’s house.

On the contrary, the whole family of Celia in the Philippines loved him as an in-law and whenever they went there, their son and daughter were treated like a prince and a princess. He couldn’t help but be sad at the difference between his Japanese family and the Filipino family of Celia.

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Meanwhile, Koji was currently in a sports bar at the lower floors of the hotel where he was staying. He was silently seated in the corner of the bar while drinking. He was very depressed because he had overheard the loud laugh of the couple. It only meant one thing – they had already made up and they are together again.

That in itself was painful for him, but he had no choice since he could not control what he was feeling; he had learned how to love Ashley. He was forcing himself to contain his feelings, but fate always had its way and kept pushing Ashley and him together.

Koji just kept drinking alcohol heavily so that he could forget about the pain he was feeling. Because of his drunkenness, he didn’t notice that there was a person who sat beside him.

"Well, if it ain’t President Hanada. How are you?" the lady greeted and sat beside him with a beautiful smile.

Koji was surprised when he realized that someone was seated beside him and was talking to him. At first, he ignored the person and kept on drinking without batting an eye.

The lady ordered a drink while she was staring at the slump Koji who was already drunk and was ignoring her.

Koji drank continuously for half an hour while the lady was still silently seated beside him. She didn’t even touch the alcohol she had previously ordered.

When Koji stood up, he was so drunk that he almost ended up falling and hitting the floor. The person beside him quickly stood up and supported him. "Wow, it seems you drank a little too much tonight! Why don’t I take you back to your room?" the lady offered while he put his arm around her shoulder.

Koji would have resisted but because of his drunkenness, his mind had blacked out. He looked at the lady’s face who was trying to help him. He was surprised, before shouting, "What are you doing here? I don’t need your pity... I can reach my room on my own. Go away!"

The lady only smiled and waved her hand to her two bodyguards to help Koji.

The two bodyguards of the lady quickly went to help Koji. The lady, on the other hand, paid for all the drinks Koji consumed before following them. Since she didn’t know what room Koji was currently staying at, she proceeded to the front desk with him so that they would recognize the situation.

"Hi, I’m a friend and I’m taking him back to his room. Unfortunately, he’s too out of it to tell me what his room number is. His name is..." The lady didn’t finish her sentence as the clerk of the front desk had answered already.

"President Hanada is staying at the penthouse." The front desk clerk had already realized that the man they were carrying was their boss.

"You don’t need a key, just use President Hanada’s thumb and the elevator will open to bring you to the penthouse," the clerk explained with a smile plastered on his face.

The lady smiled generously before saying, "Arigatou gozaimasu [Thank you very much]." Then she left without waiting for the front desk clerk, who was Japanese, to answer back.

"Dōitashimashite Oku-sama" [Your welcome, ma’am]," the front desk clerk replied.

Koji then reached the penthouse. "Give us a few minutes. You guys enter and film us. You will be making two videos: for one, make our faces seen but don’t record the voice. The second must have sound but hide my face. Only President Hanada’s face should be seen – do you understand?" the lady ordered her bodyguards.

The two bodyguards nodded before quickly leaving. After a few moments, they entered again ready to film with their smartphones.

Even still, they were slightly embarrassed by what they saw since Koji was on top of their lady boss with both of them in their birthday suits, getting quite busy. The lady motioned her two bodyguards to start filming and then whispered something to Koji’s ear. "Oh Ashley... I love you too very much," Koji cooed before kissing the lady.