True Love Waits

Chapter 1124 Your Husband Is Awesome

When Reese realized that Matthew was staring at her, she stuttered, "H-here's the thing... Mr. Huo, people say you didn't come with Erica to visit her parents after your wedding. But Erica insisted you did. So we made a bet."

"How much did she bet?" Matthew asked.

"A hundred thousand dollars," replied Reese in a timid voice.

"No, it was five hundred grand!" Erica retorted loudly. Now that Matthew was here, she could make Reese pay. "If she lost, she'd only pay a hundred grand. She pushed me into putting up five hundred grand if I lost. Kinda unfair, don't you think?"

Matthew glanced at his wife and said, "Aren't you Miss Troublemaker? I didn't know you were that easy to bully."

Erica gave him an embarrassed smile. How could she be forced into that so easily? She wasn't normally that simple to push around. On impulse, she had agreed to Reese's terms without a second thought. "You always harass my wife like this?" he asked. He didn't look at Reese this time.

Reese and Erica were the closest to Matthew's car. Even Rhea stood a fair distance away. So Reese knew he was talking to her.

She was taken aback by his question. "H-harass her? I didn't do anything like that, Mr. Huo. Erica agreed to the bet herself."

"You lost the bet. And it isn't really fair that she bet five hundred grand and you only have to pay a hundred grand. Sounds to me like you're bullying my wife," Matthew said calmly.

Reese gasped. She was no fool and she understood exactly what Matthew meant. "Mr. Huo, go easy on me. I'm just a college student. I don't have that much money..."

Erica rolled her eyes and exposed her lies. "She has the money. She has tons of boyfriends. She can get the money from them."

money. Mr. Huo, please, I'm begging you..." Reese was

wristwatch to check the time and said to the driver calmly, "Call Principal Zheng and ask him

driver took out his phone and started

of A Country Film Academy, and the

easy for Reese to get enrolled in college. They hadn't admitted her, initially. But money talks-her parents paid a lot of money to get her in. It was more than just her studies that would be ruined if she got kicked out; it was her

three hundred thousand dollars in it. She cried out loud and said,

enough money? Fine. Apologize to my wife and promise you'll never bug her again. Even better- don't talk to her, either. Then we

bullied her classmates, just like Erica did. Both of them were a matched pair. Only

hundred thousand dollars. If she refused to swallow her pride, she'd be a fool. Reese wiped her tears hastily and looked at Erica, who was staring at Matthew all this time. "I'm sorry, Erica. It's my fault this time.

What did you just say?" She was so immersed in the fact that Matthew stuck up for her that she didn't notice what Reese had said. Reese thought Erica heard everything but pretended that she didn't. She was angry, but she wouldn't do

and she didn't want to talk to Reese any longer than she had to. Since

her body as she walked off. Erica stood in a daze. There were many questions that still burned in her mind. Was Matthew defending her? Why did he do that? Was it just because they were husband and

hand excitedly. She whispered in her ear, "This is the first time I've ever seen that girl cry. Your husband is awesome! Hey, he is here

in the car.

Matthew ordered

are we going?" Erica asked. She had just met up with

said in an unfriendly tone, "Just get in the car! God, you ask so

greatly touched when Matthew defended her from the school bully. But right now, all her tender emotions were out the window, and she flew into a rage at his rude attitude. She held Rhea's arm and said angrily, "Want me in the car? Then ask nicely! I'm not a robot for you to order around! Why should I listen to you? I'm going shopping with Rhea." When he heard her, he closed the car window. Without a word, he asked the

and Rhea standing there

eyes falling on the heavy traffic, Erica asked Rhea, "Um, did

you from Reese. That's gotta count for something, right? Why don't you try to be a little nicer to him?" She wondered why Erica liked