CEO's substitute bride (Alyssa)

Hearing his words and looking at his smile, Alyssa was stunned to silence. What shocked her was that the person in charge of
such a rich and powerful family was actually this much kind.
As he raised his hand and motioned her to sit, she couldn’t help but follow his instructions. She silently pinched her hand,
suspecting if she was dreaming.
After a few seconds, she recovered from her shock and quickly said, “Hello, I’m Alyssa Moore.”
This time, she wasn’t pretending to be dumb, but she was really startled by George Lawrence. Her heart was beating so fast that
it seemed to be jump out of her chest in the next moment.
“Don’t be shy. Now, you are my daughter-in-law and a member of Lawrence family. So just make yourself at home.”
As he spoke, he picked up the kettle next to him and poured her a glass of water. His eyes showing an unfamiliar look, most
probably kindness, that she never got before.
In the Moore Family, Jason refused to even look at her unless he was scolding her or teaching her a lesson. On the other hand,
Aurora’s all attentions were on Skylar and her brother as if she was invisible and her mother could not see her so ignored her.
She had never been treated so gently by her elders, so she was a little surprised and delighted now.
Alyssa took the glass. “Thank you, Sir.”
“You can call me Dad just like Emmett.” George said while looking at her quietly.
Her appearance was not very beautiful and her reactions were also very slow. But she looked simple and kind, exactly the
woman who fitted his son’s weird temper.
“...Dad.” Alyssa called with great difficulty.
George gave her a smile and said apologetically. “You must be wronged because we didn’t give you a wedding. For that I’m
really sorry. I wanted to discuss it with you and Emmett and invite you to the Old Manor today. But, because what happened to
his mother, Emmett refused to go to the old Manor. I only hope that you could convince and help him more in the future.”
The Lawrence family was a large family that had been passed down for hundreds of years, following the tradition of three
generations living together.

And their Manor was one of their legacies. It was said that their old house was priceless. Once a man offered a 100 billion for
their residence, but in the end he became a joke in the upper class circle.
As for Emmett’s mother, their always had been less information.
In the kidnapping more than ten years ago, the kidnappers kidnapped Emmett and his mother.
In the end, it was only Emmett who could be rescued by great difficulty.
As for his mother, there were a plenty of rumors.
Some said she was dead. Some said she was not dead and still recuperating in the hospital. And some others said she was
defiled by the kidnappers...
But there was a certain thing that she wouldn’t be able to see her mother-in-law.
After a long silence, Alyssa looked at George and said hesitantly, “But... I haven’t seen him yet.”
She said the last half-sentence in a very low voice just like a mosquito. But George could still hear her.
After finishing her words, she noticed a slight change of expression in his face.
“Well, let’s not bother about him today.” After saying that, George didn’t ask about Emmett anymore. But he asked a lot of
questions about her lifestyle and condition.
Alyssa answered one by one honestly, speaking slowly, looking dull but sincere.
About an hour of conversation, George let Owen send her back to Emmett’s villa.
...
The traffic was generally not very heavy at the night time, so they reached quickly.
Owen sent her to the door of the villa, watched Alyssa go in, and then left there.
While walking inside the villa, Alyssa could not help but remember the conversation between her and George. It was no doubt
that his tone was light and gentle but he seemed to dig something as if he was trying to collect some information from her.

Well... It was not likely.
He was trying to dig more information about Emmett then her.
Although she hadn’t met the legendary Emmett Lawrence till now, she could feel that the relationship between him and his father
wasn’t as good as it was shown on the newspapers. There were many contradictions between them. And given that Emmett
refused to go to dinner with his father and how George was trying to dig information from her, it clearly showed that they hadn’t
talked to each other for a long time.
George said that Emmett had never forgotten about his mother. But his mother might be dead when she was kidnapped more
than ten years ago. Was it because of the kidnapping that he had a grudge against George?
“Madame.”
Alyssa was revived by the sound of the bodyguard, looking up.
This bodyguard looked quite familiar. Oh yeah, it was he that went to her house to pick up her that day. “Is there something?”
The bodyguard nodded slightly with a flat tone. “Young Master Emmett wants to see you.”
What?
Suspecting that she heard wrong, she looked at the bodyguard and asked, “You mean Young Master Emmett? Emmett wants to
see me?”
“Yes, Young Master is waiting for you in the study.”