LOVE HAS COME AROUND novel Chapter 1

“Christian, I want more…”

When the call was put through, she heard a woman’s voice instead of her husband’s.

Vivian pinched herself and said, “Honey, are you coming home today?”

After quite a while, there was Christian North’s impatient voice on the other end of the phone, “Vivian Joseph, don’t you know I am busy right now?”

“Christian, who is it?”

“The maid.”

The phone was hung up abruptly.

In the empty dining room, the clock on the wall said eleven o’clock at night.

Today was Christian’s birthday. She had gone to grocery shopping and cooked a nice dinner for him. Sitting by the table, she had waited since about six in the afternoon.

What on earth was she expecting?

After they got married, Christian had rarely come back home.

With a wry smile on her face, Vivian couldn’t help thinking of how she had loved Christian, so much so that she hurried back home from abroad the minute she had recovered from the surgery, just to marry him.

She thought they would live together happily ever after. No one ever imagined it would be like this.

After a long time, there came the sound of heels clicking against the floor at the gate. Vivian, who had just been drowsy, woke up immediately - was it Christian coming home?

The next minute, a man of tall and slim figure opened the door and walked in. Along with him was residues of the cold winter night outside the door, and the light in his deep eyes was as cold as everlasting frost.

“Christian…” She jumped to her feet at the sight of him and put on a relaxed smile, “I’m glad you are back.”

Christian Joseph handed his coat to the maid as if he hadn’t heard her at all. But when he saw the plates on the dinner table, he paused, “why did you get these out?”