The Billionaire’s Prodigal Wife – Chapter 54

Mackenna was nervous and as Alessandro escorted her to the table the host was leading them towards, she felt her stomach doing flips and flops in every direction. This was the first time she was being presented as Alessandro’s wife in a work situation and she knew how important this was to him and she was scared she would mess it up.

She was emotional and raw from all the events of the last several months and if she were honest, she was terrified she would blurt out something inappropriate and cost him a lucrative contract with a model he really wanted for his new line.

She was glad to see they had arrived ahead of the family they were meeting as they took their seats and when Alessandro ordered her a glass of wine, she refused it asking for sparkling water instead.

t ahead of my brain. I don’t want to say the wrong thing which forces you to miss an opportunity.”

”

’re not

er lips softly. “I love you.”

re reaching up to touch his cheek. “I’ll be okay, I promise.”

ath caught, “wow, she’s stunning. Those eyes.” The woman, walked with purpose and poise, her confidence exuding off her in waves.

hing else.”

e on time but one of us is a model and one of us is a mother of a model and yet it was my father who couldn’t figure out what to wear.” She rolled her eyes at her father.

“Hi, I’m Mackenna. You can sit by me, and we can hide behind menus together and try to blend into the background.”

ears to be normal.” He ignored the way his wife slapped at him.

u.”

a smile. “An Alessandro creation I expect?”

it. There’s something about having someone fit the dress to you instead of trying to fit to the dress,” Mackenna smoothed her clammy hands along the fabric as she took her seat again.

ing to figure out which one was hurt.

closely, you can see the white bandages peeking through.”

y.

ed into a new place two weekends ago,” she realized she may as well just get it out there and over with, “and I was sitting on the sofa.

een Mackenna and Alessandro.

cheeks going pink.

red for under Alessandro’s label.” Mackenna took a breath. “I’ll answer your questions, but I need your assurances what is said stays between us.”

ss it up.

his family seriously and they both nodded.

ow?”

ing you and you tried to kill yourself just to get away.”

after tripping over an area rug. It was purely accidental.”

randfather in the video Dulce released but does the apple fall far from the

y glared at her mother.

egated the allegation. “Alessandro and I are married, but we are working through things. When we met, I was young, and I didn’t communicate very well. Alessandro thought I was just being jealous of his friend. H

is and placed them on his lap.

ed each other, she would simply understand the lengths I went to, to ensure my company’s success. Including dancing in nightclubs for publicity’s sake or attending parties with Dulce to get her face plastered everywhere. I was arrogant and bullheaded in thinking Mackenna should have supported my desire to get to the top the way I supported her getting her college degree. They were not even close to the same thing. I should have seen she was trying to tell me what was happening, but I was self-absorbed, and I let her, I let us both, down.”

s fingers and met his gaze with

other,” he shook his head.

r.

nd I want to make sure some lothario isn’t going to seduce her and drag her through the mud like Dulce is going through right now.”

about her reasons for the things she’s done, it will be her decision.”

ke, “Dulce displayed an incredible lack of judgement. Mackenn

ver brought them menus and took their drink orders.

”

, closer really than my own sister. Had she come to me with the information my grandfather was blackmailing her, I could have protected her. Her refusal to trust me with the information and instead to comply with the directives she was given by a madman cost me my wife, my marriage and people I love very dearly.”

Your grandparents,” Whitney

lvatore hired him was because I was pregnant. He did not want my child to be the heir to House of Giordano.”

covered her mouth, “no!”

sed Mackenna’s knuckles, “my wife is trying to teach me how to be forgiving. It is not a lesson I am learning quickly.”

eople you love?” George asked curiously, no judgement apparent in his voice.

“I am finding it most difficult,

e. I am uncertain in her position how I would have reacted.”

ied quietly as she absorbed the information.

ding the fierce look in the woman’s eyes.

? In your shoes, I’d be long gone.” She looked to her husband, “I love you George, but this is some messed up crap.”

gain and it’s allowing us to try to work through our issues. It isn’t easy. I have a bad temper and his is worse,” she grinned at him suddenly, “but we’re trying.”

ill live apart,” Tallulah

ckenna has been through too much as a result of the actions of me and my family for me to simply demand we live together,” Alessandro spoke quietly. “We have been apart for more than five years and to wait to have her with me for the rest of our lives is something I am more than wi

be your wife again?”

kenna’s

consider.”

ough hell. You’re uprooting everything to move her for the possibility she might take you back. What if she doesn’t? I sure as hell wouldn’t.”

ckenna bristled under it.

you attack him just because you think you have the right to know what goes on in our personal relationship. I’m done.” Alessandro gave her hand a warning squeeze, but she shook her head.

heavals. I am grateful I am blessed with a husband who will wait for me to recover without pressuring me or giving me deadlines. He wants to collaborate with your daughter because he respects her drive, determination, and her spunk. Do you know how many models would be thrilled to work under Alessandro Giordano, scandal, or no scandal? You have been nothing but disrespectful, insinuating he’s going to seduce her or treat her poorly because you’re basing your opinions on garbage you read in a tabloid and then you sit here and try to goad us both into revealing things which are none of your damn business. You’re worse than the tabloids. Shame on you!” She pushed her water glass away, “I need a minute.”

d walked in the direction of the bathroom, feeling the surprised and stunned expressions of four pair of eyes following her as she stomped