MIDNIGHT Bride The CEO's TEMPTATION

"Who is it?" Joshua immediately saw her expression change and quickly asked.

"It's me, my mom," Hazel said with a shaky voice.

She had actually gotten married without telling her family. She not only got married, but they had done everything that they had promised her parents they wouldn't. She had no idea how she was going to explain it to her family.

"Let me answer the phone." Joshua took the phone out of her hand.

If the Crowe family needed to vent their anger, he'd rather be the one to deal with it than Hazel.

"No! I'll do it myself!" Hazel hurried to take the phone away from him.

She thought the same as he did. If her parents were going to scold someone, she wanted it to be her.

Hazel answered the phone, she spoke quietly, "Mom…."

"Don't call me Mom!" Rachel shouted crossly. "Hazel Crowe, tell me where did you stay last night?!

"Last night I, I..." Hazel bit her lip before she honestly said, "I was with Joshua."

"You were just together?" Rachel sounded extremely angry. "I've been told that you had sex. Is that true?"

Hazel felt nervous and couldn't help asking, "Who told you that?"

In an instant, Rachel was furious, "Hazel Crowe, do you forget what you promised us?! There were rules in place so that you and Joshua could not have premarital sex!"

"But we didn't!" Hazel said innocently.

"Don't try to deny it!"

"I'm telling the truth. We didn't have sex until we were married."

There was silence on the other end of the line. Moments later, Rachel, who understood what Hazel said, clenched her teeth and replied, "Hazel Crowe! Who allowed you to get a marriage license? We agreed that whether you get married or engaged, you had to wait until you graduated!"

"But I graduated yesterday. Do I need to show you the diploma?"

"You are really pissing me off!" Rachel was so angry that she couldn't even speak. She didn't think that Joshua would act so quickly, he didn't even wait a day. He caught them all completely off guard!

Then Hazel could hear her father's voice in the background, she couldn't make out what he was saying, though. She jumped when she heard him on the phone. He had a deep, demanding voice, "Hazel, we are at Denmark Residence now. Joshua promised he wouldn't get you involved in any situation, but he did, and he broke the rules. Why don't you come here? You and Joshua both so we can talk about this."

"Dad, why are you..." Hazel sounded like she was going to cry, but Harry was unmoved.

He continued to say, "If you don't come, then we can only assume that since you know who your biological parents are, you don't want your foster parents."

"I…" Hazel's eyes began to tear up. She knew he was only saying that to force her to go see them, but he was truly breaking her heart.

Joshua's eyes darkened slightly, he grabbed Hazel's phone. "Hello, It's Joshua. Please don't blame Hazel. It was all my idea to get married, she had nothing to do with it. We will be there as soon as possible to talk about it."

After hanging up, Joshua gently held Hazel's hand. "My dearest wife, don't be afraid. When we get home, just need to blame me and say I forced you."

"You?" She was so pissed off at him that she just laughed. "Aren't you afraid my parents are going to force us to get a divorce?"

"They won't." He smiled a little and told her, "To them, your happiness is more important than appearance. You love me, so they won't try to break us up."

"Since you think they won't try to break us up, why did you deceive me into getting married?" She glared at him, shy and angry. She had realized that if the Crowe family had known about and agreed to their marriage, then they wouldn't be questioning them now.

"I wanted to be close, I didn't want to wait any longer," Joshua sighed. "Sweetheart, I was really afraid you were going to leave me. Are you angry?"

Joshua knew Hazel had a lot of men interested in her. It would be even worse when her true identity was revealed, she would have many more men trying to get her attention. He knew he had to be the one to marry her before someone swept her off her feet.

"No," Hazel smiled and shook her head.

Her eyes twinkled when she kissed him on the cheek to reassure him. "In fact, I wanted to be close to you too, so even if I sensed it was a little wrong yesterday, I listened to you."

She would never have normally gone to get the marriage license so impulsively, but she loved him.

Joshua smiled slightly. He reached out to hold her hand. "Let's eat first. After we get home, whatever happens, let's face your parents together."

"Mmm." She nodded firmly.

After breakfast, Hazel had a thought, she got Katherine's number from James.

"Aunt Katherine," Hazel hesitated for a moment before she finally said, "Well, I think I need you to do me a favor?"

Surprised, Katherine asked, "What do you need?"

Hazel explained the details of how she loved Joshua, but her parents were biased against him and didn't approve of their relationship. Her plan was to have Katherine, who was Rachel's idol, go to Denmark Residence with them to help break the tension.

Katherine agreed without question. "Okay, just leave it to me. But will you do me a favor when it's all over?"

"Me?" Hazel was confused. "What could I possibly do for you?"

"Don't worry," Katherine said with a slight smile. "It's not too troublesome, and it has nothing to do with Simon King."

Hazel was even more puzzled, and she pondered what she could actually help Katherine with besides Simon King. But since she said it had nothing to do with him, Hazel agreed.

**

Joshua and Hazel arrived at Denmark Residence as Katherine was pulling into the driveway. Just having her there made Hazel feel more confident.

"Leave it to me." Katherine winked at her.

Leaning against Joshua, Hazel nodded obediently. With his arm around Hazel, Joshua walked up to the Denmark Residence, with Katherine behind them.

"Hazel, you finally decided to show up!" Rachel scolded Hazel.