Love Slave to My Dev Chapter 170

170 Winning Over My Mother

After taking our seats, we started off on the food. I watched a little anxiously to judge Ace’s reaction to my mother’s hocooked food. I wasn’t the one who made it, but I couldn’t help feeling nervous to see if he would like it. My mother, on the other hand, seed quite confident in the result of her cooking.

“It tastes like ho, I guess. It’s very delicious for sure, but sothing about it makes

feel very warm. It’s like eating love and care,” Ace told my mother with a charming smile.

I didn’t think that he was completely lying about what he thought but his word choice and the way he smiled at my mother also made

think that he was definitely sucking up to her. My mother laughed a little shyly before she smiled and thanked him. The conclusion that I quickly reached was that she was already under his spell. I began wondering if there was anyone that Ace couldn’t manage to win over as I stuffed so food into my mouth and began chewing on it.

“Your daughter is so an, ma’am...she told

that she will break up with

for sure if I was the father of that baby. She didn’t even think about it when I asked her what she would do if that was the case...” Ace complained openly to my mother.

Why do I feel like he’s already on her good side and I’m being painted as the villain here?

“Rina, don’t be so an to Ace...” my mother turned to say to

with a clear warning in her tone.

“I’m not the one being an to him. He was the one who caused so many misunderstandings...” I retorted.

“I surely am to bla. Don’t bla Rina, mother,” Ace said in tone so gentle it was like he was talking to a baby.

My eyes bulged when I realized that he had already started calling her ‘mother’ and that she didn’t seem to mind. My mother just laughed along to whatever he was saying. I made a ntal note to ask Ace what he done to my mother when we were alone. Seeing them talk and enjoy their ti together made

feel a lot better in a way that I couldn’t quite describe. I guess I was glad that the two of them got along and that my mother enjoyed his company. Clearly, Ace has got her figured out and wrapped around his fingers.

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After wrapping up our al, I thanked my mother before telling her that we should be heading out. My mother was understanding like she had always been and wished us good luck. I didn’t want to tell her that this was probably just a small bump in our journey together and that there were more detrintal hurdles that lay in store for us such as getting the Chairman’s approval of our relationship, for example. Things were complicated but telling her all of that could definitely wait for another day.

It was a long ride from my mother’s place to Ace’s place in the heart of the city; however, the ride wasn’t boring at all. The ride also gave us the ti to reconnect and silently nd our bonds.

“I’m a little worried about Project Alpha...” I mumbled admittingly.

“Why? Isn’t everything going well?” he asked.

“Well, I guess but I’m still worried about potential delays,” I said before I sighed softly.

“We still have ti. Thankfully, it didn’t take us long to make up, otherwise the final storyboard review might need to be pushed back,” Ace said jokingly.

“Never. I’m professional enough to separate my personal life from work. I would have attended the eting with you even if we were still not on good terms,” I told him defiantly.

I probably ant it; however, I had to admit that I wasn’t sure how well I could have pulled it off. Jeremy, being as bright as he was, would have probably sensed that sothing was off right away since he would be in the eting with us. That might have been very awkward indeed.

“Is that so?” Ace asked teasingly before he turned to grin at .

“Have you taken a look at it?” I asked hopefully.

“Let’s not talk too much about work right now. I’m on leave and you’re supposed to be sick,” Ace reminded

with a hint of disapproval in his tone.

It was clear that he didn’t want to talk about work anymore, so I decided to change the topic to sothing else. Since the CEO was on the leave, I had to be respectful of his personal ti too. Leave days were precious even for the CEO, I thought with a smile on my lips.

After a long drive, we finally arrived at Ace’s place which turned out to be one of the high-rise luxurious condominiums. Ace had a private elevator that shot us right up to the penthouse floor. A while ago, this would have surprised , but I’ve learnt for a while now not to be surprised with these things anymore. I just had to imagine the best of everything and then so extra layers of special on top of that and that was probably what Ace had or had access to.

“My bedroom has a nice view,” Ace stated confidently during our ride up.

“What about the view of the other rooms?” I asked teasingly.

“...you can see for yourself,” Ace muttered.

I giggled a little at him and the elevator opened after it ca to a stop. Ace offered

his hand and led

out of the elevator. The fact that the elevator opened right up to the entrance to his room told

that there was only one unit on the entire penthouse floor of this building. Impressive, although, no longer surprising to .

“Wow! The view from up here is amazing!” I cried out as the view of the cityscape captured my attention.

I quickly approached the wall of clear glass and looked down and then around at the great view that seed to make the city stretch out endlessly before . Ace chuckled behind

before he ca to stand at my side.

–To be continued...