last week i had a business meeting in
the city where theresa lives
actually the work was not too urgent but
it just happened to fall at the same
time teresa went on vacation to visit
her family before marriage
so i had an idea to surprise her and her
family
but unexpectedly the surprise waiting
for me at the door of teresa's house
was many times bigger than the surprise
i was going to bring her
hi everyone i'm luke 31 years old and
living in america
i was born into a family with a business
tradition my father owns a well-known
fertilizer business in the area
and i am his only heir however from a
young age i was taught by my mother
carefully and a little too strictly
i have never complained but instead i
feel grateful for the effort my mother
put in to bring me up becoming a mature
man
i soon realized that despite all the lux
and strong family backups i need to
strive to succeed by myself
to build a solid foundation for the
future
graduating from high school thanks to my
efforts and the guidance of my parents
i was offered a full scholarship to
study business administration in the uk
after four years of studying abroad i
officially started working at my
father's company to get used to the job
because he wanted me to take over later
based on the knowledge gained through
many years of studying in the uk
together with the practical experiences
that my parents taught me in my early
ages
i was confident in renovating the
structure and method of doing business
bringing the company founded by my
father to a better position in the
market
however the more successful i became
with the business the unluckier my love
life was
during my four years of studying abroad
i fell in love and remained faithful to
only one girl
who was also an international student in
economics at the same school
she came from a rich family and was
pampered so during the time we were in
love
i spoiled her a lot when we completed
the course and our visas expired
i eagerly wanted to go back to the us to
work for my father
while my lover told me that i was such a
coward for such a decision
she said i didn't dare to strive by
myself in a new country
and just wanted to rely on my parents
instead
a month before i returned to the united
states no matter how hard i tried to
hold on
she was determined to break up with me
because our goals in life
didn't match but i had just been back to
the u.s for a month
when i heard from friends that she had
extended her visa to stay by quickly
marrying a man from the british royal
family
i could not get rid of the pain of
broken love from being betrayed
so i put everything i had into work my
mother knew the story
even though she felt very sorry for me
she always wanted her son to grow up to
be strong
so she let me deal with it my way as for
my father
he was so happy because his son finally
came back to help him grow his business
that he didn't pay attention to my mood
i thought my heart had hardened after
the shock of my first love but
unexpectedly
i'd learned to love again when i was
almost 30.
at that time the company organized a
meeting between managers and workers to
discuss potential issues in the
workplace
in that heated discussion i was greatly
impressed by teresa
a factory manager of our company that
powerful girl represented the workers
and employees in the workshop to speak
up about the inadequacies they have to
face
and boldly worked out very clear
solutions
i fell in love with teresa right from
that meeting teresa was sharp and
assertive when the situation called for
it
i believe she is the right person to
help me grow the company
she came from the countryside and had
constantly striven up with her strength
to get a position like today
which would surely make my mother happy
teresa is only 27 years old
single i am the future heir of the
company with good looking appearance
so after i made the move our feelings
developed quickly
only three months of knowing each other
i was mesmerized by the assertive
attitude at work but very gentle and
soft
daily behavior of theresa her hometown
accidentally happened to be the home of
my grandparents before they moved so i
wanted to pay a visit to her family
at that suggestion teresa was a little
hesitant
it took her one night to think and the
next day to accept my offer
when i asked why she just smiled and
said that she needed to arrange her work
indeed that complicated attitude was
very different from teresa i know
when i first visited teresa's home i was
warmly welcomed
her parents are farmers and have a very
innocent personality
while teresa and her mother were
preparing dinner her father showed me
around the house
when we got to teresa's bedroom before
she left i came across a picture of a
pretty girl hanging on the wall
the girl looked a lot like theresa
finding me focus on that picture
teresa's father suddenly became anxious
and led my hand downstairs
before i could ask her father explained
that it was teresa's older sister's
first daughter
thinking that they are siblings hence
the similarities i
didn't doubt anything after that the
affection between us grew through time
i've also reached the age of marriage my
mother was very happy with theresa
so we plan to have our wedding ceremony
next month after finishing some year-end
plans for the company
teresa was extremely happy and excited
to join me in the preparations
last week i had a business meeting in
the city where teresa lives
actually the work was not too urgent but
it just happened to fall at the same
time teresa went on vacation to visit
family before our marriage
so i had an idea to surprise her and her
family but unexpectedly
the surprise waiting for me at the door
of teresa's house was many times bigger
than the surprise i was going to bring
her
as soon as i got to the patio of
as soon as i got to the patio of house i met the little girl i saw in the
house i met the little girl i saw in the
photo last time
sitting on the porch the cute girl saw
me coming
she smiled and ran to the door to shout
mommy we have a visitor
i was happily coming closer to have a
conversation with her when teresa opened
the door
and stepped out the little girl
immediately swooped in her lap and
called her mommy
i was shocked theresa was also surprised
and even panicked when she saw me
when putting the two of them close to
each other the resemblances were
undeniable
teresa was trapped at the moment because
she had to face me while holding the
little girl in her arms
she just faltered inviting me into the
house and quickly disappeared into the
kitchen with the little girl
seeing me teresa's parents were
speechless and appeared unusually
impulsive
of course i was not stupid i could feel
the awkwardness right away
i put the gift bag i bought for her
family on the coffee table
then apologized and left quickly when i
started the engine i looked back and saw
teresa's parents come to the gate to say
goodbye to me
while she stood behind the door still
holding the baby
and didn't seem like she would run out
to beg me to stay
i drove to a hotel in the center of town
when i was sitting calmly in my room
i opened my phone to check no messages
from theresa
she had nothing to explain to me
frustrated
i immediately called her the time i
drove back here should be enough for her
to think it through
teresa answered the phone her voice was
shaking but she still tried to sound
happy as if nothing was wrong
i didn't like to play this pretending
game anymore so i immediately got the
point
who is that girl teresa still tried to
sound natural
you're acting weirdly she's my niece
didn't my dad tell you that already
she called me mother because we often
joke around like that it's nothing
do you find it strange too i haven't
mentioned a word about that detail since
her front porch
something was so wrong right there for
her to have an attitude like that
the moment i started to sound cold to
her demanding to know the truth
teresa's voice began to sound like she
was suppressing tears
at that moment in the background her
father shouted from afar
he must know the truth he had the right
to know i can't lie like this forever
give me the phone
teresa's father answered the phone
sighed deeply and told me the truth
the little girl was the result of
teresa's mistake in love before she
moved to the city and worked for our
company
the girl's father was a bad guy never
even met his child
teresa gave birth to her daughter and
left her behind for her parents to take
care of
her job in the city got better and
better however in all circumstances
she has never mentioned her child in any
profile
because of her love and fear of losing
me teresa decided to hide the past
completely
last time when she and i visited her
family we planned so she could take her
daughter to her relatives to avoid me
but my plan for romance this time has
revealed her secret
from being shocked by the discovery of
the truth i felt extremely disappointed
in her
was it because i've been deceived and
betrayed before so i become more
sensitive
i'm not the conservative and
cold-hearted man the fact that theresa
had her child before loving me could be
a problem we need to discuss with each
other before getting married but
definitely cannot be a barrier that
stops me from loving her
but the fact that she had planned to
trick me on purpose made me sad
discovering the bad side of my fiance
made me wonder and lose my faith
the whole company knows about my love
story with theresa my family and
colleagues at the company are still
happily discussing how fun our wedding
will be
i was in no mood to think about it
anymore i'm too confused and do not know
how to feel with this problem
please help me guys
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