Ezra particularly required Maisie to drive on the way back.
Maisie was puzzled as to why she should drive while Ezra was the driver before.
But she wasn't a curious person. She picked up the car keys and sat down in the driver's seat.
Maisie thought she could finally take a rest after reaching home and Daisy taking Ezio to have milk. However, tons of
messages hit her as she checked her phone.
The messages were all from Emelia, Nina, and Jean talking about her marriage.
Emelia showed them a screenshot in the group chat, which was about Ezra posting a picture of their marriage certificate.
Now Maisie knew what Ezra was doing in the car. He was taking a picture of the marriage certificate and posted it to announce the
news.
To prevent them from worrying, Maisie hadn't informed them that Diana incited her mother to snatch Ezio and caused a
wound on Ezio's forehead.
Therefore they didn't know the purpose of this marriage was to take revenge on Diana. Maisie's original plan was to tell
them when she got the chance to do so. But now they knew it.
Maisie fixed Ezra with an angry stare, who was now standing next to the window and busy responding to the messages.
He should be blamed for the entire news leak.
The pictures he posted immediately led to ceaseless calls and texts.
Ezra didn't answer the calls or messages, except those from close friends like Julian.
Julian was the first to ask him in the group chat, "Whom did you marry?"
Ezra just took a picture of the cover of the certificate. He didn't post their names on Maisie's account. So no one knew whom did Ezra marry.
Besides, Ezra didn't send a signal about getting married before. No wonder everybody was surprised to hear that.
Phil was franker. “Was it fake?"
Ezra answered with anger, “Can you say something nice to me?"
How would he lie about marriage?
Phil defended, "I just don't think you are ready for marrying. You claimed yourself as a confirmed bachelor. Becoming a husband must be very difficult for you. We'd rather you joke on this than seriously undergo these pains."
Ezra had to acknowledge that what he said was irrefutable.
Eloquent and logical, Phil lived up to his fucking reputation.
Julian asked another question, "Please don't tell me it was Maisie.”
Ezra replied, "Yes."
Fearing Julian might have problems with that, he added hastily, “Maisie suggested it.”
Based on Julian's knowledge, Ezra offered to marry Maisie when he knew the existence of Ezio but immediately got declined. How would Maisie come around?
And this was torturing Cameron.
Therefore, Nina planned to go back to Riverside City to meet Maisie and also spend some time with Cameron.
Maisie could almost imagine the upset look of Cameron who was murmuring about Nina‘s absence. She readily consented with a smile, “OK. See you a couple of days later.”
When Maisie was at the end of the conversation with her besties, Ezra also finished his. Their gaze met when Maisie looked up.
For no reason, Maisie suddenly felt ill at ease.
She looked down and disguised her abnormal reaction with the phone.
Even when Ezra came up to her and sat down in the chair nearby, she moved a bit to keep her distance from him.
Apparently, Maisie instinctively loathed Ezra's approach.
Ezra noticed her remoteness, but there was nothing he could do in the present. The more he pushed her to love him, the more she stayed away from him.
Ezra put this behind him and changed the subject, "You got any idea in Ezio’s name if we switched his family name back to Cantillo?"
At the request of Roman, Ezio's family name should be changed if he was to return to his father's family. Ezra repeatedly reminded her and she agreed.
But Ezio should have a new first name if his original family name shifted.
"I haven't got any idea.” Maisie shook her head.
She didn't have a particular idea about Ezio's new name.
Ezra responded, "I have a plan, what about Benedict Cantillo? It implies good wishes to the kid.
"Or Ezis, the blending form of our names.”
Maisie disapproved immediately after Ezra said this. "Benedict is fine.
Name Ezio after his parents’ names? That was too intimate and unnecessary.
Ezra was speechless.
She instantly rejected everything that was relevant to him. How come she resented him like this?
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