Carlos loosened his tie and sat on the edge of the bed. "Why did you call? Something happened? I was in a meeting. I called back later, but why did Megan answer your phone?" he asked as he touched her chubby cheek.
Debbie held his hand and asked casually, "What did she say to you?"
Carlos let her know what Megan had said. "She said you left your phone in the living room and you were upstairs, sleeping. She told me nothing happened."
Debbie adopted a conciliatory attitude. To avoid further trouble, she lied, "I missed you. It's New Year and you're still busy. I've always said you work too hard. I'm worried about you."
Carlos smiled and kissed her forehead. "Don't worry. I'm used to it. I'll ask someone to take you outside when you want, in case you get lost if you go on your own."
Debbie agreed to his suggestion readily.
The next day, when Debbie was about to leave the house with Carlos, Valerie suddenly piped up, "Debbie, you're young and have good eyesight. Come help me."
Carlos was still changing his shoes. Debbie looked at him, and his reply made her happy. "Ask Megan, Grandma. Debbie and I are taking off."
Debbie nodded to Valerie and felt her handsome husband was awesome.
Valerie sighed, "She's not feeling well. Besides, she's taken care of me every day. It's someone else's turn." After casting Debbie a disgusted glance, she asked Carlos, stone-faced, "Can't I ask your wife to do anything?" To prevent the matter from escalating, Debbie waved at Carlos and said, "Just go to work. Come home early. I'll go out after I help Grandma."
Carlos smiled and pressed a kiss on her forehead. "Okay. The driver's waiting for you outside. Call me if you need me."
"Okay, bye."
Carlos left, and the old lady guided Debbie to the storage room.
Standing at the entrance to the storage room, one hand holding her cane and the other twirling the beads, Valerie began, "Go find the string of Buddhist prayer beads of mine and cl
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.
nded.
"What do I want? Old lady, you're lucky that you're Carlos' grandma, so I won't do anything to you. However, Megan is not my elder..."
Debbie grabbed Megan's collar abruptly and pulled her up. "As her aunt, I'll teach her a lesson."
Since Debbie had just done the cleaning, her dirty fingers left black streaks on Megan's white collar. Megan screamed, "Yikes. Gross. Let go of me!"
"Gross?" Debbie sneered. "You think that's gross? You should be used to it. Why are you so condescending? My husband treats you well, so you think you're a princess? Listen up: you're trash! From now on, show some respect. I have a temper."
With that, she pushed Megan so forcefully the girl staggered and fell onto the sofa.
Furious, Valerie started panting for breath. Seeing Megan was thrown to the sofa, she trotted over to pull the girl up. "Dear, are you okay?" she asked in worry.
Megan trembled in the old lady's arms.
Watching the two, Debbie remarked indifferently, "I don't owe this family anything. Even though you treat me like shit, I'll still call you 'Grandma, ' because you're Carlos' grandma and I love him. I don't want any problems between us, because he'll have to take sides."
After a short pause, not long enough for the old lady and the girl to respond, she continued talking.
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