Tabitha scread and ran towards Carlos. She tried to hold him back. "Carlos! Carlos, what's this about? Listen to , son. Calm down."
Carlos gave his mother a cold look and asked, "How could you do this to my wife?" He gritted his teeth in anger and added, "Debbie has always respected you. Is this what she deserved from my parents?"
Jas still didn't think he did anything wrong. "I never accepted her as my daughter-in-law. I won't allow her to give birth to your child."
"So you told the servants to put crushed birth control pills in her food?" asked Carlos, grinding his teeth to suppress his growing anger. His eyes blazed and seed to stare deep into Jas' black rotting soul.
Jas attempted to wrench free, but compared to his son, he was too weak. Pretending to be composed, he said, "They were just birth control pills, not poison! Did you have to fly all the way from Y City for this?"
'Just birth control pills?' Within Carlos' heart, his father's image sank to a new low. "Yes, they were poison. You've been feeding her cumulative poison!"
Saying that, he swung a second fist towards Jas' face.
Only Tabitha and Jas were ho at that mont. There was no ti for Tabitha to rush downstairs to ask the servants for help. She had to stand in front of Jas to stop Carlos from hitting him again. "This family was never happy while she was here. And she even tried to kill gan in Y City. Why are you still protecting her? Can't you see how vicious she is? Divorce her already."
Carlos closed his eyes to hide the misery he felt from those words. He let go of Jas and straightened his own clothes.
Regaining his composure, he told his parents, "From today, I will not enter this house anymore, unless Grandpa wakes up or you accept Debbie as a mber of this family."
Tabitha panicked. There was no sign of Douglas waking up yet. Did this an that Carlos would never co back if his grandpa didn't wake up? No! Tabitha couldn't accept it. "Carlos, listen to ..."
Carlos glanced coldly at the weeping woman and said, "There's nothing more to say here. If my wife has a baby so day, our child will have nothing to do with any of you."
He turned to leave. Tabitha shouted desperately, "Carlos, are you willing to turn your family and friends against you for that woman?"
Carlos said, "Just my family. Unlike you, none of my friends did anything heartless to Debbie even when they found out that she had pushed gan into the river." Debbie had had to bear all the mistreatnt and insults from Valerie and Jas just because she had married Carlos. Now, they had even set her up to take birth control pills without her knowledge. She had suffered too much for him.
"She is a murderer! Why are you still protecting her?" Tabitha yelled at her son's cold back, heartbroken.
Carlos turned around and looked his mother in the eye. "Debbie is not a murderer. We all know what kind of person gan is. We just choose to ignore so things about her out of gratitude towards her parents. Debbie fell into the river because of what gan told her on the phone. She only pushed gan into the river for revenge. And she has been rciful in the act. Besides, gan didn't die." That only served to prove that however angry Debbie had been at the ti, she had never intended to take gan's life.
"Let warn you one last ti, Father. If you dare hurt my wife again, I will make sure you suffer."
Without waiting for his parents' response, he left the study.
There was a loud bang from the room. As soon as he walked out of the study, an ashtray was smashed against the door.
Then Jas was heard roaring, "Bastard! This is what I get for keeping him! If I had known that he would be so ungrateful, I would have..."
Carlos couldn't hear the rest of his words clearly, nor did he want to. Fists clenched, he left the house.
Back in Y City, it was the seventh day that Carlos had been away from the manor. Debbie sat in the music studio and read the lyrics which she had revised a hundred tis.
"In the dim street lights, in each other's arms, we expressed our feelings.
Snowflakes swirled around us, and fell on our hair.
Would this mont last forever?
You kissed my hair and told that you love ."
That was all she had written.
'Should I also write down what Carlos said to ?' she wondered. Her phone rang, breaking her thoughts.
It was Kasie.
"Debbie, bad news! Guess what I saw just now!"
Debbie was confused. "What is it?"
"I ca to Orchid Private Club to find Emtt. And I saw your husband, Mr. Lu, Damon, and Wesley walk into a booth. They were not alone. Each of them had a woman alongside them. gan was with your husband.
Bam! Debbie slamd the pen on the table. "Did you see it for yourself?"
"Yes! I checked with Emtt too. He gave the room number. Are you coming?" Kasie knew that Carlos had crossed the line. He was fooling around with another woman while her friend had been staying at the manor all alone for seven days.
Debbie's friend would have thought that Carlos had forgotten about her if Emtt hadn't gone to the manor to get Debbie's ID card for her overseas study papers.
'Should I go?' Debbie asked herself. After giving it so consideration, she said, "I'm not coming. He's in Room 888, isn't he?" That was his exclusive booth.
"Right. What are you going to do about it? I'll go with you, if you like."
"No. Let him be. I have to go."
Debbie hung up and imdiately called soone else with gritted teeth.
In Orchid Private Club
After entering the exclusive booth, the four n sat down around the automatic mahjong table, with their won sitting next to them.
Beside Carlos was gan. Colleen looked at him with a raised brow. "Mr. Huo, where is my good friend, Debbie?" This was supposed to be a get-together of Carlos and his closest friends. However, instead of Debbie, he brought gan along. Colleen was pissed.
Carlos lit a cigarette and took a drag. After exhaling the smoke, he said, "She's ho."
Colleen knew that Carlos and Debbie had a huge fight after Debbie had pushed gan into the river. Things were complicated between the couple right now. So, Colleen didn't feel the need to pretend to be cordial with gan anymore. "Mr. Huo, I have to say, you are in the wrong here. This is an occasion for the people closest to you. Why didn't you bring Debbie? You should learn from Wesley. He brought his girlfriend. As for Damon, he gets a free pass. He has always been a Playboy. Even when his wife is about to give birth to their baby, he is here ssing around instead of taking care of her at ho. He has made his own bed and he will have to lie in it."
Damon snorted and replied defensively, "Don't get wrong now. Your man said that we were having a get-together, so my wife gave permission to have so fun. Since they all had a woman with them, how could I co alone?"
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