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…”

onto Matthew‘s arms while

asked in worry after seeing her in discomfort, “What‘s wrong? Did

“N–NO…”

she even squeezed out

is it?” a

Veronica whined, “I just…“.

“You just what?”

so wait right here for a

that, Veronica hastily

her words were still swimming in Matthew‘s mind as he thought that the woman was too brash to say those kinds of

honest... She should change this habit of hers. Otherwise, how can she be accepted into the

image of her wearing a bridal

are you thinking

eyebrows, Matthew then rubbed his temples, feeling as if he had

was obvious that she would only be accepted into the Kings Residence

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

tip of a cigarette had been fully lit

turned back, Matthew looked at the shadow standing from a few meters away since he could not

he thought that she

and merely stopped when she

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

Matthew asked,

“I–It‘s me, Melissa.”

sprayed perfume before coming over, hoping that

she felt to see her dream guy standing in front of her at that moment. She had butterflies in her stomach and it took her a long while before she calmed

doing

Veronica, Matthew would have already left as soon as this

me to tell you to wait a bit longer as her tummy

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

through this method that Melissa

painstakingly come up with such a plan just to earn

was that Matthew could not suspect anything strange about all this. Otherwise, their deal

you can leave

another cigarette, Matthew lit it before taking yet another

to his left side, coincidentally smelled

of tobacco, she found it harder to