True Love Waits

Chapter 1270 I'm Your Wife

"I said I changed my mind." Matthew stood up from his chair and walked over to the dumbfounded woman. He raised her delicate chin and said quietly, "Haven't you heard of sleeping your way to the top? I have to keep up with the times!"

"So, you've had sex with someone in your office before?" Erica asked, her eyes wide.

"No." He rubbed her chin with his thumb and said, "But since you seem so keen on the idea, I thought I'd take you up on it. I don't want to let you down!" He was hamming it up deliberately. Hopefully, she'd back down before he had to.

There was no way Erica was going along with this. He wanted to see if she would lose her temper when he talked about being with another woman.

The smile on Erica's face froze. "If you really don't want to, I won't force you."

Why was this man so annoying? She just wanted to test him, and he was failing badly! 'My heart! It hurts!' she cried in her mind.

Without hesitation, Matthew answered, "Don't want to? Of course I want to. Hey, can you get ahold of that chica you were talking about?"

This time, Erica couldn't even fake a smile. She tried to force a smile, and ended up with more of a grimace. "I haven't talked to her in a while. I'm not sure I can get in touch with her!"

"It doesn't matter. How about you tell me her name and I'll ask Owen to find her. As long as she's in the city, I'm sure he can get her here in, say, half an hour?"

All of a sudden, Erica flew into a rage. She attacked his cheek with the fervor of a rabid wolverine. His head rocked, and a red mark appeared on his face, conforming to an angry woman's handprint.

Matthew's face darkened. What did he do in a previous life to deserve this raging banshee? Was she born to plague him?

What was more, he was proficient in Taekwondo and many other martial arts skills. Why did she always manage to slap him? "Matthew Huo! I swear I'll call your father and tell him about you. If I don't, my name's not Erica Li!"

She wasn't kidding. She took her phone from her pocket and turned the screen on.

snatched it away and asked, "Why

I have to! How could you fool around with another woman?" she yelled. She was about to explode with

to reason with her, "But you're the one

what? But you didn't have to agree with me! What were you thinking? You should have said no! But you didn't, and you..." Her voice was lost to heartache as tears fell like rain. She tried to stop, but

was just

just like her temper. When Matthew saw her tears, his heart softened. 'And I'm guessing it's all my fault!' he sighed in his mind. He pulled her into his arms.

emotional wrecks when they're on their period. You don't understand me,

He didn't know anything about it. He softened his tone. "It's my fault. I should have tried to know more about this. But instead, I buried myself in my work.

to buy me pads, for Chrissake! You probably hate me, huh? You've been just impossible recently. You must want to divorce me!" After enduring his changing attitudes to her for several days, Erica finally

"I bought the pads myself. I don't hate you, and I don't want a divorce." She was the one who climbed over the wall and escaped again and

out himself

on? Why don't you cook for me anymore, or watch movies with me?" She missed those days. She wanted them back, and wasn't sure why Matthew

know how that feels?" He was angry and distressed. He

her tears on his shirt rudely. "You

left dark streaks on

had slapped him and stained his suit jacket and shirt, Matthew would have

was Erica, the woman he loved more than life

said nothing, she continued, "It's all because of you. What if I died in bed? I want my own room. But you keep telling me no! It's your fault." She burped and looked very unhappy. Matthew closed his eyes, held her face and conceded again. "Okay, that's

okay?'

argue with her. He knew that wouldn't go well. Matthew

to me about what I

wasn't planning on bringing it up

for the next two days,

too- Okay! Promise!" The man corrected himself when