The Tycoon's Real Wife

Synopsis

It took me the entire night of coaxing to finally persuade Patrick Chapman, who had always been notoriously low-profile, to agree to a televised interview. Yet the next morning, my colleague Sophie Rogers beat everyone to it and announced the news of Patrick's upcoming interview before it even aired. Under the teasing and cheering of our coworkers, she suddenly turned shy and said, almost coyly, that she was going to marry Patrick soon. I lowered my eyes and checked my phone. The screen lit up at just the right moment. It was Patrick's message: [Mom just called. After my business trip, let's go home for dinner together.] I looked back up at Sophie's face, flushed with a faint, embarrassed smile. And for the first time, a quiet question formed in my mind. If she were Mrs. Chapman, then what exactly was I?