The CEO's Tiny Surprise

Lillian was nineteen when she had Richard's daughter. She gave birth by herself on Christmas Eve, then carried the baby to Richard's door and left her there. Five years later she came back to the house as a cleaner. The girl was living there under the name Alice, and Lillian was around her again every day. Richard runs a company and keeps his distance from people. The marriage he and Lillian made was an obligation at the start and the two of them came to want it later. Lillian had been born to a fortune of her own and had said nothing about it, and once that was known the money brought other people's plans with it, and jealousy, and matters in Richard's family that nobody had said out loud. She held on through it for the sake of the girl and her own standing.