Chapter 4

• Christian asked her to go somewhere private where they could talk because talking in the streets was not private enough and passers-by were starring at them like they were crazy.
• He chose a quiet private room in a restaurant. He told her everything she needed to know, that he was forced to get married to Mara by his grandfather, but he found out today that she was not even Helena's daughter like she had been pretending to be all along. How he had been looking for her for the past 4 years with no luck. He had planned to make Mara sing a 3 month marriage contract just to appease his grandfather. But now he has finally found Victoria and even learned that she was the one his grandfather wanted him to marry. After Victoria heard all of this, she finally relaxed. She was over the moon , she couldn't contain her excitement but she didn't want him to see how happy she was.
• She ended up crying in state, Christian was so worried thinking he had made her cry, but she told him to relax, that those were tears of joy. Without talking even more he took her hand and let her out if the private room, by now it was 8 pm and the sky was already dark, Christian told Colin that he was done for the day, and that he should go home. He opened the passenger door for Victoria to get in, he bucked her seatbelt before going around to get in the car himself. HE drove straight to city hall, Victoria asked " what are we doing here Christian? He simply told her they were there to get their marriage certificate.
• Victoria was lost for words. She sat still and said " I would love to marry you, but we need to talk first, then you will decide after it you still want to marry me. We haven't seen each other in 4 years , and we don't really know each other, are we not making a mistake by getting married on a whim? Isn't it too impulsive? " Christian looked at her and smiled " as long as you want to marry me too, then we should get married, I know very well what I want, and it's you. I haven't stopped thinking about you since that night. You have been invading my thoughts for the past 4 years. I thought the moment I saw you I was going to kill you for abandoning me, but it was the opposite" he told her.
• " There is something I need to tell you , I have 2 children, they are twins a boy and a girl. Their names are Maya and Luke. They are 3 years old, " Victoria couldn't even look at Christian in the eye. He lifted her chin so she could look at him, and asked " are they mine" . If they are not mine I will adopt them and treat them like my own. All I know is that I want to be with you and you and the kids will not lack anything."
• Victoria wasn't sure if he was joking or not but she looked at him and told him she has never been with anyone but him. Christian was so happy after learning that he was a father, even though it painted him that he wasn't part of their lives for the first 3 years, he was still overjoyed. They went in and got their marriage certificate, but Victoria told him to keep it a secret for now. She needed to find a way to tell her kids about their father before they could find out about the marriage. And that meant they will be living in separate houses until then. She asked for a month to coax her kids especially Luke because he was territorial when it came to his mother. As he would normally tell them that he was the man of the house. It was not going to be easy to give up that position.
• She finally thought she was impulsive by getting married without telling her kids first, what if they hated Christian. She wasn't worried about Maya, Luke was another story. She hasn't even told her mother. She thought she was irresponsible and blamed it on Christian even though she knew there were both crazy for getting married like this. She decided to tell them the very same day because she knew she will never tell them if she didn't do it that very day.
• Yet when she got home she couldn't bring herself to tell them. She tried so many times but all they wanted to know was how the engagement party of their aunt was. And how their grandmother was, they couldn't wait to see her. They've heard so many stories about how sweet she was, and they thought she was as sweet as their mother