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.

Matthew snatched it away and asked, "Why

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

tried to reason with her, "But

you didn't, and you..." Her voice was lost to heartache as

the more resentful she felt. She knew it! Matthew didn't love her! She was just trying to test him. To her surprise, he accepted the suggestion. He knew how she

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

his arms. "You know women are emotional wrecks when they're on their period. You

it. He softened his tone. "It's my fault. I should

wife. You refused 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 found an outlet and poured out all

voice, "I bought the pads myself. I don't hate you, and I don't want a divorce." She

he went out himself to buy

She missed those days. She wanted

because you keep trying to escape! Do you know how that feels?" He

tears on his shirt rudely.

Her tears left dark streaks on

who had slapped him and stained his suit jacket and shirt, Matthew

it was Erica, the woman he loved

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 my fault too. It's also my fault you climbed over the wall. Next time you do that,

she say okay?' He said

to argue with her. He knew that wouldn't

him. "And don't even talk to me about what I did to Phoebe. That's between

happy." He wasn't planning on bringing it up

crying. "You're not that busy for the next two days, right? Good, you can watch a

too- Okay! Promise!" The man corrected himself when faced with her tears