Bumpkin's Rich Handsome Husband

Chapter 98

As she had only fancied Melissa‘s ability to give money, she instantly surrendered to Melissa.

“Haha, Veronica, you really are too kind.”

Melissa tilted her head and made a heart shape with her fingers at Veronica‘s direction.

Such a gesture had caused Veronica to feel queasy as it only gave her goosebumps.

After wearing her shoes, she then took a flashlight with her before heading to the house next door. She immediately went to Matthew‘s bedroom after opening the front door. Knocking on the door, she asked, “Matthew?”

Because the villagers had mingled with each other well, they didn‘t close the front door on account of the swarm of outsiders who arrived for the sake of convenience. As such, Veronica merely allowed herself in.

No reply came from the other end.

After waiting for a while, Veronica was going to call for Matthew again when the bedroom door opened.

Matthew stood in front of her in the dark and asked coldly, “What?”

His cold tone had a hint of distance to it.

It was like he still held a grudge about what happened earlier that day.

Veronica thought that he must have been a super petty person in his past life, which explained why he easily became angry.

“About that… Um… I‘ve something urgent to talk to you about. Could you come with me?”

Lowering her voice, she had said it in such a tone that only both of them could hear

1. it.

After a short period of silence, the man agreed and followed her outside.

After walking to the courtyard outside, Matthew stopped and turned around to look

at Veronica. “So, what is it?”

Although it was at the dead of night, the moon cast its bright light to the ground and illuminated everything in a thin veil, barely allowing them to make out each other‘s silhouette.

Suddenly, Veronica held onto her stomach. “Ahhh, my tummy. Ouch, it hurts…”

subconsciously grabbed onto Matthew‘s arms while whining

look earlier, immediately asked in worry after

“N–NO…”

pain, she even squeezed out the

What is it?” a caring Matthew

Veronica whined, “I just…“.

“You just what?”

so wait

saying that, Veronica

moment, her words were still swimming in Matthew‘s mind as he thought

I‘m being honest... She should change this habit of hers. Otherwise, how can she be accepted into the Kings Family? Be accepted into the

frowned, he suddenly had an image of her wearing a bridal gown on their wedding night

you

eyebrows, Matthew then rubbed his temples,

obvious that she would only be accepted into the Kings Residence as his grandmother‘s god–granddaughter–nothing more,

for a while at the pond under the moonlight as he took out a cigarette to take a

had been fully

few meters away since he could not make out who it was. “So, how are

said those words, he thought that she must have been in a great deal of pain, which was

woman didn‘t reply and merely stopped

the breeze carried with it a strange scent along with the scent of the flora and fauna with

Matthew asked, “Who

“I–It‘s me, Melissa.”

preparation, Melissa had intentionally sprayed perfume before coming over, hoping that Matthew would be charmed into looking directly at

in front of her at that moment. She had butterflies

are you doing here?

hadn‘t been for Veronica, Matthew would have already left

you to wait a bit longer as

to the room, she had reminded Melissa multiple times to say those exact words to Matthew, so that he

only through this method that Melissa could

to painstakingly come up with such a plan just to

about all this.

you

out another cigarette, Matthew lit

had walked to his left side, coincidentally smelled the light tobacco scent that blew past

it harder to suppress the ecstasy