The CEO’s Vanishing Bride

Five years ago, Mila Hayes, an ordinary girl, became pregnant after a one-night stand with Adrian Cole, the heir to a wealthy family. She had intended to tell him, but was forced to back down by the Cole family elders. They told her that if she stayed, Adrian would lose his right to the inheritance and be expelled by the family council. Fearing that she and her child would become Adrian’s Achilles’ heel, Mila disappeared with her child. Five years later, Mila was struggling to make ends meet. Unwilling to let her highly intelligent son, Leo Hayes, continue living in hiding with her, she sent him to Adrian, leaving behind a DNA report and a single message: “He is your son. Don’t look for me.” Shocked, angry, and filled with regret, Adrian began searching for Mila. But every time he was on the verge of finding her, she would vanish one step ahead of him. The hotel reservation had just been canceled, the train tickets changed, the phone number deactivated, and the rental apartment vacated. Until Adrian discovered that the one who had actually been helping Mila escape every single time was none other than their five-year-old genius son, Leo. At first, Leo was simply following Mommy’s plan to protect her. But as he spent more time with Daddy, he realized that Adrian wasn’t trying to hurt Mommy—he genuinely wanted to bring her home. So Leo went from being the “escape coordinator” to the “champion of family reunions.”