Mou carefully put down Stella on to the bed. He started to undress Stella so she would sleep more comfortably.
Mou was left with his breath hitched at the sight of Stella with just a bra and underwear. The blood in his body started to circulate and the wrong direction and he closed his eyes.
'No, calm down.' Mou didn't want Stella's body, he was working toward her heart.
Mou was about to walk out of the room until he felt a grip on his sleeve.
"Mou? It's cold." Stella mumbled, as her eyes blurred slightly.
Mou threw out his control and immediately complied. "Hang on, let me get changed." It was the quickest he had ever taken off his suit in his life. He got in under the quilt and cuddled with Stella.
Stella was warm, she felt comforted under Mou's strong arms. She could feel the hardness of his body. 'I never noticed how much he worked out.' She thought, until she poked another hard part of his body...
Mou stiffened. He was a man in bed with the woman he loved... It was obvious his body would react in that way...
"Sugar, I wouldn't move." Mou gave a stern warning, his voice incredibly sensual in Stella's ear.
Stella nodded as she didn't dare move again. Her face blushing with embarrassment.
Mou hugged Stella around her stomach, he started to hear Stella's smooth breathing, an indication she fell asleep.
Mou gave a light kiss on her nape as he went to a blissful sleep...
Stella woke up as per her body clock, she opened her eyes only to be met with a wondrous scene.
She was facing Mou's sleeping face, he looked so serene. Stella couldn't stop herself from touching the Adonis in front of her...
She touched his chin, then moving down to his chest, his abs weren't entirely defined due to missing working out. But Stella still found it hard and irresistible...
She then realized something, she could feel something rock solid... Down there.
"How long are you going to straddle me sugar?" Mou's teasing voice made Stella jump in surprise. As she met his teasing eyes.
'Damn, he was awake...' She knew that she was just caught. But what did he mean by...
Mou had been awake for a few minutes before Stella. He made it his mission to wake up before Stella so he could get a look at Stella's sleeping face every day.
But when he woke up, she was clinging on to him like a koala bear. So, his body naturally had an extreme reaction...
"Huh?" Stella didn't understand what Mou meant, until she looked down to see their positions.
Her legs went around Mou's legs, her arm was around his neck. Any way you see it. She was clinging on to him while she was asleep...
"As much as I love you, I don't want to be suffocated." Mou joked, he loved how Stella reacted while she was asleep...
Stella blushed, her poor inexperienced heart couldn't take that. So she went quiet as she tried to get away.
But Mou just chuckled. "Calm down sugar, just be natural." Mou half begged, half ordered. If Stella made some extra movements then neither of them would be leaving the bed soon.
Stella didn't catch on to the extra meaning but she nodded anyway. Deciding to plant herself into Mou's shoulder.
Mou thought that she looked a lot like a kitten right now. 'Dear oh dear. I think I'm losing my rationality here.'
Mou then remembered something. "Sugar, you never did answer what Andy asked." Mou reminded Stella.
Before Andy was setting up Stella's recovery, he asked how old she was. He needed something to base her recovery on. And the average results of women her age and body type was a good start...
But Stella just replied saying it was rude to ask for a woman's age and Andy never asked again. Decided to use Tia as a baseline.
Stella lightly laughed into Mou's shoulder. "Is it that important?" She asked, she didn't know why people were obsessed with her age.
Mou put his head on top of her hair. "Not really, but I don't really know anything about you. It makes me a little upset really." Mou spoke as if his heart was broken.
This tactic immediately made Stella fold. "Mmm, I'm 18, I was apparently born in late February, I don't know the exact date." She was never told the date. But when she was young they celebrated her birthday at the start of March.
Mou softly sighed. 'I'm lucky in some cases. But at the same time... How could she have taken control of the Bei family at such a young age?' He was lucky she wasn't much younger...
Then Stella suddenly remembered something. She jolted up out of Mou's embrace with a serious face. "Isn't it the start of December? Isn't your birthday..." Her face was ashen as she thought about it.
Mou put Stella's face back into his embrace, he rubbed her hair. "Mmm, it's fine. My birthday present was you agreeing to be my girlfriend no?" Mou teased, his smile wide.
Stella didn't say anything in reply. What could she say to that?
When Stella decided to get up, it was 5.30am. She went outside for a jog as Mou jogged with her and worked out.
By the time the servants awoke, Stella and Mou were both sitting in their embraces.
Butler Tao felt a tear come to his eye. 'This old man might need to retire soon.' He was so happy to see this scene.
Butler Tao quietly put down some watermelon for Stella and put himself out of the way, breakfast was ready after the two showered.
"What are your plans for the company?" Stella asked Mou, she knew how he put it in the hands of Cerim and Lennard. And Guillard Entertainment was put into the hands of the vice president. The businesses had grown nicely without Mou. But, he was the big boss after all.
"Mmm, I have to return, since Cerim is going mad with the number of marriage proposals he is getting." Mou joked, since Mou had completely disappeared. it was like women just moved their attention elsewhere.
Stella chuckled at the thought of Cerim being barraged by women. "What about you? Will you take over your role?" Mou asked back.
Stella chewed in silence. *Sigh* "As much as I like my freedom, I do have a responsibility. I did take control of the business but then threw Blair into the deep end. I just... Don't know." Stella replied as she stared in thought.
Mou rubbed Stella's palm. "Look at how much effort you put into everything you own. You worked day and night to put people under control, right? So now, you need to state that you are in control." As much as Mou didn't want Stella to be in any danger. He knew, that Stella without freedom. Is lifeless.
Stella stayed in thought. It wasn't that she felt nothing for the companies. It's just that, she had never shown her face before. So how would she take control as a CEO?
Mou seemed to realize her thoughts and smiled slyly. "Imagine, your enemies seeing you alive again when they thought you had disappeared or even died. The looks on their faces." Mou then reminded Stella of something.
Stella looked down and her eyes shone. "Good point. Tia found out that the accident was most likely linked to my mother. So I need revenge for that, don't I?" Stella gave a sweet smile. One which would terrify her enemies.
Mou chuckled, 'She has gained life' He was happy that Stella had gained some passion apart from him, not that he minded. But he wanted her to have another reason to live. If that is controlling what is rightfully hers... Then so be it.
So on that day something monumental happened. Mou Guillard returned to Guillard corporation more than half a year after the accident that forced him to have surgery! And, Stella went out disguised, to her own company. To sit at the helm for the first time...