The CEO's Painted Skin

Catherine was welcome by the guard who's face registered shock all over his face while opening the main door for her. She went to the lobby of the building and sat down on the sofa. If the guard was stunned to see her, she was shocked the most because she'd never expected she will come out alive from her abduction. It never occurred to her that the same people who abducted her were also the same people who brought her home safely.

She had a hard time believing that she was finally freed and was now inside the safe confinement of Infinity Jade Tower, that's when the shock finally hit her hard like a ton of bricks, she was free at last! She began sobbing uncontrollably... tears of relief were flowing freely down her cheeks.

The guard was already calling John on his cellphone.

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John was sleeping soundly at that time Catherine arrived in the tower. His cellphone was ringing in the bedside table, the high pitch ringing tore through his sleeping consciousnesses, he opened his eyes slowly and rubs them... who the hell was calling him in the middle of the night?

He reached for the noisy phone at the bedside table.

The caller was the guard assigned to the entrance of the ground floor, he was one of his oldest employees.

Why on earth he was calling him? It's the first time the guard called him. The time is 1:30 in the morning. He answered the call with a sleepy voice...

"What is it, guard?" he asked, rubbing his eyes, he glanced at the two babies in their respective crib, they were sleeping soundly.

"Somebody wants to see you, Sir," the guard said.

"Huh? Who wants to see me at this hour when everybody still sleeping soundly?" John's brows furrowed.

"It's your missing wife... Ma'am Catherine!" said the guard.

"Whaaaat-?"John was shocked. He almost dropped the phone. "S-seriously....!?!" he was thinking that the guard was just playing a prank on him in the middle of the night.

"It's no joke, Sir. Please come down right away, Ma'am Catherine is crying hard, I don't know what to do to make her stop crying," said the guard.

"Let me hear her voice!" he commanded.

There was momentary silence, then a woman's loud sobbing can be heard from the phone...

"John, it's me...Catherine...," then the sobbing continues.

Oh My God!

His missing wife finally returns!

John's hands were shaking, he can't contain his happiness and excitement! He immediately sprinted outside the bedroom, rushing inside the elevator, all the way down into the ground floor.

The moment the elevator's door opened up, he comes running into the lobby and there she is!

His missing beloved wife!

"Catherine!" he exclaimed in glee.

Tears of happiness, longing, and relief were already streaming down on John's face.

Catherine raised her head to see her husband's smiling face.

Their eyes met... both teary-eyed.

John doesn't know how did he arrived in front of his wife, he must be flying and grown a pair of wings all of a sudden, all he knows is that they were now embracing each other tightly, tears of happiness continues to flow from their faces.

"I'm glad your back, Cath! I miss you so much!" he said with a broken voice.

"I miss you too!" she responded. Then she remembered her children."My babies! My babies!" she kept murmuring in his ears.

"Shhh, stop crying, they are safe. Baby James and baby Angel are sleeping in the master's bedroom, let's go upstairs now so that you can see them," he said while wiping the tears from her face with his bare hands.

Catherine's eyes widened, so it's true! Dana sent the baby to John, then she cried again, the leader of the guy in the mask didn't lie, he was telling the truth, she almost didn't believe him.

"Are you okay? Did they hurt you?" he asked. He examined his wife's body from head to toe, he was glad he did not see any sign of physical torture.

Catherine shook her head. "No. They did not hurt me. I will tell you everything but not right now. I just want to see my babies," she said.

"Okay, let's go!" John said.

They walked towards the elevator holding each other's hand tightly.

A moment later they finally arrived on the 15th floor.

When John pushed open the door to the master's bedroom, Catherine runs towards the two cribs placed beside the bed.

"Oh my!" she squealed in delight when she saw how big and chubby baby James has become. Fresh tears sprung from her eyes. She lowered her face into the crib and kissed the chubby cheeks of her firstborn. Then she went to the next crib, baby Angel was sleeping soundly like an angel. Then the infant must have detected her mother's presence by her side, she slowly opened its eyes and then starts crying, Catherine picked up baby Angel and breastfeed her in the bed.

John was silent the whole time, he suddenly becomes terrified that if he will start talking again his wife will suddenly vanish away as if what he witnessed right now was just a beautiful dream and tomorrow when he wakes up the painful truth still exist. It's hard to believe that she finally comes back after gone for almost a year. This is a miracle indeed! He murmured a prayer in his mind thanking God for returning his wife to his side.

Then baby James was suddenly awakened, the toddler roamed his eyes inside the room. John picked up his son and placed him in the bed near Catherine so that she can watch baby James while breastfeeding her daughter.

She runs her hands over her firstborn's face, baby James must have sensed that his real mother has just returned because he was smiling at her... loving the feel of his mother's hand caressing his face.

"I love you baby James!" she said. "My God, you've grown fatter!" she commented, beaming at her son with eyes full of love.

John rubs Catherine's back. "Welcome back, wife!" he said gazing lovingly into her eyes. He misses her so much. His hands reached out to her face to touch her. The nights were empty and lonely every time he reached for her in the bed, she's not around to received his hugs and kisses.

Catherine looked at her husband's face for the longest time. While she was in captivity she was losing hope in seeing him again. But right now they were finally back on each other's arms. As much as she wanted to spend some time romancing her husband right now, children first, she grinned.

She bit her lip. "Miss me?" she asked in a suggestive tone.

John smirked. "Nah, as much as I wanted to, let's give this night to our children. Finally, you are reunited with us and this is more than I can ask for. Let's just enjoy and savor our reunion as a family," he said.

After breastfeeding baby Angel, Catherine waited for the baby to burp before putting her in the center of the bed. Then John put baby James beside his sister. The two babies were roaming their eyes inside the room and landed on their parents' happy faces.