True Love Waits

Chapter 24 Driving To University

'I've been so stupid! I should've inquired Philip about Carlos more before. If I did, I wouldn't have had the audacity to cross him. Alas! It's too late now. What else can I do?' Debbie thought, beating herself up over her ignorance.

Now that she was seeing things in a different light, she really regretted having sung the song that evening to offend him.

'Debbie Nian, why did you have to provoke him again and again?

You lifted a rock only to drop it on your own feet!' she berated herself. Slapping a palm on her forehead in resentment, she then stood up. Tomorrow morning was going to be tough for her. When she went to the second floor, she stole a glance at the closed door of Carlos' bedroom. As soon as she was certain that it was not going to burst open at any minute, she sneaked into hers and closed the door as gently as possible.

All night long, she tossed around in her bed. Her worries did not leave her alone at all.

The next morning, she got up half an hour earlier than usual. After readying herself, she went down the stairs with dark circles around her eyes. All she wanted was to leave the house without being noticed by Carlos.

The previous evening, she had made up her mind. Since she could not divorce him right now, she just had to keep herself away from him as much as possible. It was her only solution until she could make the man sign the divorce papers. If she had to face him, she decided she would not provoke him again. After all, safety was now her first priority.

When she reached the first floor, however, she saw the very same man she meant to avoid in the dining room. Without even looking at her, Carlos ate his breakfast. It was a bit strange seeing him in a black shirt instead of his usual business attire.

"Debbie, come eat," Julie said in a cheerful voice as she went to the kitchen. Before the servant could reappear with Debbie's breakfast, the young lady was already running to the entrance door.

"No need for that, Julie," she shouted hastily. "I'm in a hurry!" "When did he get up? I didn't even hear him make any sound,' she thought to herself.

"Stop!" came a cold voice from behind her back. Almost as if on command, Debbie paused from changing her shoes. Her breath hitched when she heard him.

"Um..." she stammered, turning around.

Until that moment, something never occurred to Debbie. What was she supposed to call him? 'Boss?' Debbie thought. 'Sounds like I'm an employee of his. Honey? That would be disgusting!' She scrunched her nose in revulsion. "Sir," she said formally, trying to make an excuse, "I have something urgent to finish. So I'll be leaving now."

'Well, actually I can call him Uncle. He's so strict with me that he reminds me of my father. But,' Debbie thought, still trapped in her own musings, 'if I really call him Uncle, he will surely get irritated.' The young lady refrained from voicing out her thoughts, for if she did, it would throw out her entire plan of not getting on the wrong side of her husband.

saying nothing for a while. Gracefully, he wiped his lips with a napkin, and said, "I'll

laptop, burying himself with his work. Once again, his

already imagine how he would react if she insisted on going to the university on her own. She did not want to be frozen

walked over to the expensive mahogany dining table and sat as far away from him

for her to enjoy her meal. While putting food into her mouth, she kept stealing glances at Carlos every now and then. It was like she was not anticipating the slightest sound coming from her to annoy him. By the time she finished her

picked up his briefcase from the couch, and

with profound resignation, Debbie grabbed her backpack

was a black car parked right before her. Something about the vehicle appeared to be very striking, but she could not quite point a finger at it. Through the car window, she saw that Carlos was sitting in the back seat. Groaning, she did not approach the car at

spine. 'No,' she thought stubbornly, 'I do not want to die out of fright! Hm... but maybe I can sit in the passenger seat.' The young lady was too focused on staying away from Carlos to notice he was running

have no time to wait for you," he stated from inside the car. The harshness in his voice brought Debbie back to her senses. Darting towards the car, she opened the door of the passenger seat. To her disappointment,

with him. As Carlos was

from the car window, Philip noticed the girl lean against the car door, averting Carlos as if he were the plague. Sighing, he thought, 'Debbie used to be a cheerful and lively girl. Now that she's in front of Mr.

car stopped along the entrance of the Economics and

luxurious cars at the university was not anything out of the ordinary as many of the

was worth at least tens of millions of dollars. Who could own such an extravagant set of wheels? It was for this reason that it caught

the words left her mouth, she pushed the door open and ran as fast as she could.

to gossip. Their curiosity was satiated by her appearance, but now they had more questions. "She usually rides a BMW. And now, she has a

students had families who could afford these luxury cars,

sense because it was Debbie. It was difficult to believe that she would ever

young lady did not act like a girl at all! No one could believe that there would

he rubbed his eyes. "Am I dreaming?" Apparently, he was among the students who saw Debbie getting out of the black car.

from a rich family and that her usual ride to school was a BMW which already cost millions of dollars. So Jared's curiosity was not about whether Debbie's family could afford it. More likely, he was curious about the type of man who would spend so much

had not heard of a rich man whose surname was Nian. Simultaneously, he realized that Debbie had rarely spoken about her father. Now more than ever he wanted to get to know the man with extravagant taste in cars. The

I recall, there are only two Emperor

Debbie and

not even notice that he was casting a dirty look at his friend who was wearing white trousers and a grey coat. Upon examining her in a tactless manner, he concluded that she did not look like she had slept with Carlos the previous night. His suspicion was so obvious

she stood beside her dirty-minded friend, she slapped her hand on his back. The man yelped in pain, and rubbed