His Contractual Mistress

"My princess..." she had a warm smile when she saw the man behind the door. Hailee rushed inside and landed in the man's arms. 

"Grandpa... Are you also joining my husband's surprise, huh?" 

Allen laughed and denied nothing. He said proudly, "I like him, and I could see he was a good man. And these sparks in your eyes. He is the one who makes you smile like this." 

His granddaughter is a bubbly person and has a gentle soul. Nothing he prayed for but for her to live a fulfilling life. His granddaughter deserves all the happiness in the world. 

After Allen placed a warm kiss on her left cheek, he passed Hailee to her dad. It's not the wedding day yet, but Jacob has been too emotional already. 

"Princess…" Jacob opened his arms wide and locked her daughter inside. "Sometimes, I'm still wishing that you were still that sweet teenager who is always bugging me with your capriciousness. But I must accept that you don't need dad anymore." 

"What are you talking about, dad?" Hailee parted slightly from her dad to meet his gaze. "Your grandchildren would love to play with you. Watch over them and then send them to school." 

She already has these imaginations in her mind. Soon she had to perform her position as the chairwoman of Davies Corporation, and Vincent was the new CEO. With this new task, they will be even busier than before. 

Jacob, on the other hand, his eyes glimmer upon hearing his daughter's words. He loves the idea. Soon he started working on his new role. He will always be out of the country, and he isn't sure when to come home. But if ever he is… He will make sure to spend every minute of his time with his grandchildren. 

With that thought, Jacob embraced his daughter tightly. But he let her go right away. Hailee was only seven weeks pregnant, but her belly looked like twelve weeks old. 

The three babies in her womb are growing so past. And he could not wait to meet them soon. 

Jacob planted another kiss on Hailee's forehead before he let her walk toward the man standing in the middle of the hall. 

Hailee made a graceful sway, walking on the red carpet. Around them were candles inside glasses, and beautiful white and pink roses filled the entire floor. She thinks they are ten thousand roses and ten thousand candles. It was a magical moment.

"What are you up to, Mr. Shen?" 

Vincent was facing his back to the door, so he didn't see her when she entered inside. At this moment, the giant door of the main hall closed. 

When she walked toward Vince, instruments played. Hailee guessed that a group of people was on the second floor, playing this soothing music.

Vincent turns around, and he has those loving eyes staring back at her. He walks closer to her, takes her hand, kneeling on one foot before he kisses the back of her palm and then her belly. 

He isn't proposing. Hailee knew this, and Vincent kneeled on one foot just for him to kiss her now visible baby bump. 

After he placed another two kisses on her belly, each one for their children, Vincent finally stood on his feet and put her inside his arms. Later on, they were slow dancing. 

It was the perfect time Hailee waited to fire away the questions hanging on top of her head. She places her arms around Vincent's neck, lifts her chin to brush her lips above his before she starts her queries. 

"So, how were you able to gather all of my knights?" 

Vince had this proud smile on his lips as he answered, "I asked George, Alex, and Andre's help." 

"I see… You got the right people to back you up, huh?" Hailee teases him. 

But she was truly delighted at how clever her husband was. Having George and Andre brought her knights all together, none can say no to them. 

Hailee gaped at Vince. The guy could tell that she had another question she was itching to ask, but it was a little sensitive, so she thought it might not be the right moment to fire it away. 

But she is obvious to him, so Vince encourages Hailee to let out what is troubling her. 

"You had something on your mind." Vince initiates to open up. Somehow, he already had to guess what made her curious about everything that happened this evening. 

"It's about Bryan…" 

Vince placed a kiss on her forehead. With a smile, he replied to her, "I was the one who invited him." 

Hailee softens her gaze to Vince. She was happy that he was completely open to her knights. Gazing at him passionately, she told Vince, 

"I love you, Vincent Shen." 

"I love you too, Mrs. Hailee Shen." 

Hailee is joyfully responding to Vincent's kisses in the next minute. They parted after both could not breathe from the fervor kiss. 

"I want everyone to accept me and see that my love for you is genuine. I have been waiting for four whole years to find you once again, and I would not waste all my chances to be with you forever." 

One more time, fresh tears falling down her eyes. She appreciates Vince's hard work to persuade all of her knights, especially the Australian knights, who are emotionally invested with her. 

Vince planned it out thoroughly that there were no more hard feelings from her knights. He wants to make everything perfect on their wedding day. The men have no objections or commotion, so he intentionally holds this engagement party attended by her knights. 

After tonight, he could finally have peaceful nights without worrying that those men sabotage his wedding and suddenly kidnap Hailee on the day of their wedding. 

He admits that what he thinks is full of madness. But it's better to be sure and prepared. He wanted to tell the world that there is only one wife for him, which is the woman who holds his heart. 

After dancing for a half-hour, Vince brought her toward the other hall where the food serves. 

Hailee cheerily greeted Hilda and her step-grandmother Andre. The two were discussing the wedding and stopped when she and Vince showed up. She moves to another table where Gigi, Kelly, Janise, Sheena, and Deana are seated with a brief talk. 

She didn't know that Janise was here as well. But now that she saw her, she guessed that the white dress was designed and tailored to her. She was just a little surprised that the dress was so fit for her with her baby bump. 

"Thank you. But how did you get my measurement right?" she asked Janise curiously.

Janise giggled, then her lips pointing at Kelly. Now Hailee understood why Kelly took her measurements the other day. 

She looked at Janise and uttered, "Did you just make this dress for one day?" 

Janise nodded, then replied, "Yeah. When Hansen informed me he would take me back and explained Vince's plan, I immediately started making that dress." 

"Aw, thank you so much. You are so great, pretty godmother!" Hailee embraced Janise and placed a kiss on her cheek. She is grateful and admires how talented a dressmaker she is. 

During her stay in Metro City, she loved all the dresses she sent over at Vincent's request. 

"Let us do a maternity fashion show!" Out of the blue, Hailee came up with this idea. She looked at Kelly and said, "Together with a new set of jewelry collections!" 

Both Kelly and Janise cheerily agreed to her proposal. 

"Mrs. Hailee Shen, thank you for being such a genius businesswoman! You are making us even richer!" 

"Of course. The fashion show should have a cause," she informed the girls.

Kelly has known Hailee since they were in elementary days. She is generous and kind. Even after they established their business, doing charity work is always on her mind. 

The girls continued discussing the project. Vince walked to their table and placed a platter of food in front of Hailee. 

"Wifey, you should eat first. Tonight is our pre-engagement party, and so no business talks," he reminded the girls. 

However, as the night gets older, Vince cannot stop making business deals with a few of Hailey's knights. Mitchell is interested in his yacht business and plans to invest in Vince's company. 

Mitchell was talking about luxurious sailing yachts for rent, starting from Russia and anywhere in the world. 

Vincent quickly laid out a business plan. Other men were also interested in his proposal on the spot, and so tonight, he closed a deal of a few billion euros into his account. 

So when the party was over, he had a bright face when they went back to their apartment. 

Vincent gives Hailee a warm bath before they go to bed. She could not take her eyes off him but stare at him lovingly. 

Later on, Vince finally notices that she is staring at him, and he lowers his head and gives her a soft kiss. 

"You were so happy," she asked afterward. She already knows the reason. Vince warned not to talk about business, but he himself actually made a deal tonight. But she let him be. She was happy that Vince was mingling well with her knights. 

Vince didn't hide it. He had grinned across his face and made a cheerful retort, "I could finally stock up a year's supply for our babies." 

He was talking about diapers and formulas. Hailee cannot sustain breastfeeding three babies long, so they must rely on formula milk. 

Hailee was stunned to realize that Vincent was actually worried about this. She also heard Vincent mumbling about the best nannies in the world and how much salary they would get. 

Listening to all of his plans and setups after she gave birth, Hailee couldn't stop kissing him feverishly, thinking how fortunate she was to find such a man. 

"Let me meet you in my next life," Hailee muttered lovingly into Vince's ear. 

"I would definitely ask God to meet you in my next life." 

Vince carefully put her down on an accent chair inside the walk-in closet, then helped her dry her hair with a bath towel before he used a hairdryer. He also helps her put on a nightgown. 

"Hubby, I'm hungry." 

Vincent quickly gets out of the room to get her food in the kitchen. There are lots of desserts at the party, and they take home some of them. 

When Vincent came back, he brought a tray full of desserts. Hailee drooled over the sliced strawberry cake, macaroons, a glass of milk, grapes, and there was also bottled water. 

Hailee secretly filmed Vince placing a table on the bed, then the tray full of food. She posted it on her Instagram to regret it a few seconds later, but she couldn't take it down after many of her followers viewed it already.

Gladly, she disabled the comments. People were frustrated that they could not express their thoughts, so they reposted it and put a caption like this… 

"That body is enough for dessert before bed!" 

Vince is only wearing a lower pajama, and so, his upper body was exposed. Hailee received DMs from her friends saying, 

"Mumma, you need not make us envy you!" 

"That was dangerous, Mumma! You made girls drool over your husband's muscled arms!" 

"That flat belly is tasty!" 

Hailee rolled her eyes. She absolutely learned her lesson, and she would never post Vince's half-naked body to the world... 

That's why she keeps mumbling between stuffing her mouth with desserts. 

'Better hide your hot husband inside your closet!'