"Matthew, are you busy right now?" It was a woman's voice, which sounded a bit familiar to Erica. However, she couldn't tell whether it was the voice of the woman who called him on their wedding night or the voice of someone else she had heard before.
"No."
"Will you be attending the seventh-day ceremony of Nathan's death?"
"Yes." Tomorrow was going to be the seventh day after Nathan's death. And Matthew would definitely come.
"Okay, I'll be waiting for you, then."
"Okay."
As soon as he hung up the phone, Erica was dying to know who it was. So, she asked in a low voice, "Who was that? Your woman?"
"No," Matthew answered curtly.
"Oh." This one wasn't it either, which simply made Erica become more and more curious.
In the Huo family's manor
When they got there, a few kids were merrily running about in the yard. Noticing their car from a distance, Godwin quickly ran toward it. Godfrey and Gwyn followed him, blocking Matthew's car together.
The second the bodyguard got out of the car and opened the rear door, the two boys called out "Uncle" and frantically went inside the car.
The car was less than two minutes away from the manor itself, meaning to say the kids only got inside the car to have a bit of fun.
In order to give them space so they could get in, Matthew moved closer to Erica, and the two kids scrambled to sit right next to them.
Gwyn, on the other hand, was the only one who stood outside the car, showing no intention of getting in.
Seeing this, Erica pulled Godfrey, who was moving close to her, into her arms and let Godwin sit on Matthew's lap. Then, she called Gwyn and said, "Gwyn, hop in!"
The bodyguard said, "Mrs. Huo, Miss Tang can just sit in the front seat."
To which, Gwyneth flatly refused, "No. I don't want to sit in the front seat. I want to sit in the back with everyone!" Of course, she wanted to join the fun along with everyone.
With that, Matthew patted the empty seat beside him and said, "Gwyn, you can sit here."
Gwyn then bent over to step inside the car. After she had settled in her seat, they took their time driving toward the villa.
The car, which had been quite peaceful earlier, suddenly became very lively in an instant. Godwin was such a fearless kid. Godfrey, on the other hand, was actually a bit afraid of Matthew, but he wasn't afraid of being with him right now since Godwin and Erica were also there with him. So, he was able to continue fighting with Godwin.
Matth
Drugged one night by her ex-boyfriend, a mysterious man took advantage of her in an ecstatic night filled with sex.
To take her revenge, she married the man, and used him.
"As long as I'm alive, I'm still his legal wife, while all of you are just his mistresses."
She remained adamant even when he was involved in scandals with other women.
Eventually she stormed off after she learned that he had betrayed her again.But life brought her back to him a few years later, to his astonishment.
tell you, then. Matthew is..." Out of the corner of his eye, Sheffield noticed Carlos, who had actually been staring at him for a while. "Dad," he greeted him with a smile.
As soon as Carlos waved at him, Sheffield walked toward him and said to Joshua, "I'll tell you later." Lately, Joshua felt like Sheffield had been casting him aside more and more easily.
Inside the bathroom, through the reflection on the mirror, Erica looked at Matthew as he was washing his hands and couldn't help asking, "Why did you marry me?"
It was the same question she had asked him before on the day they got engaged.
Glancing at her in the mirror, Matthew flatly answered, "I wanted to do everyone a service, that way, you won't be able to harm someone else."
"Hey, that's not what you said last time!" Last time, his reasons seemed much better than this.
"Really? Is my answer any different from before?"
This left Erica at such a loss for words. It seemed that there wasn't any difference after all. As it turned out, the only difference was that his reply sounded much better last time.
For all she knew, he could have married her for any reason, but it couldn't possibly be because he was in love with her!
Fine, then. She didn't care anymore. It wasn't like she loved him anyway.
That being said, the reason why she had to ask him again was that when Matthew held her hand just now, for a fleeting moment, it gave her the illusion that he actually liked her very much.
But now, it seemed that that wasn't the case at all.
That made perfect sense, though. Why would he, a handsome, rich, and powerful man, fall in love with a single mom?
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