Mr Carlos Huo, She's Your Wife

"But there's a line. I hope for your sake you don't cross that line again. As an elder, you should know better. I'll let Megan off the hook this time, but if she talks about my parents again, things won't be so easy for her, I swear."

After that, Debbie turned and went upstairs.

Valerie was too furious to say anything. If it were possible, steam would have poured from her ears.

Back in her room, Debbie decided to get comfortable. She drew a nice warm bath and washed the grime away. She had hardly put clean clothing on before her phone rang. She knew the number by heart, even though she didn't have him in her contact list. It was Hayden. 'Why's he calling?' she wondered.

In a bad mood, Debbie decided not to answer it, just let it go to voicemail. She wasn't very good company right now. Then she got a text message from him. "I'm in New York. I need to see you. It's important."

'Hayden is in New York?' Debbie was a little worried. "Why are you here? What's so important?" she asked in a text.

"I'll give you the details when we meet up. If you don't come and meet me, I'll go to the Huos' residence to find you,"

he threatened. 'What the heck?' Debbie cursed inwardly. She figured she'd better do as he said. After all, it might cause a scandal inadvertently. She called Carlos to let him know.

"I want to go out for a while," she told him.

"Okay, I'll ask the driver to take you wherever you want to go."

"Okay. Carlos..." Debbie intended to tell him that she was going to meet Hayden, but remembering how jealous he could be, she decided not to.

"Yeah?"

"Oh, nothing. What time are you coming home tonight?"

miss me so much,

him this time for hitting on her. "Okay,"

On Broadway Avenue

the car at an intersection, sent the driver away, and walked to the coffee shop where

was already waiting for her. Seeing her walk in, he waved

day. She could see her breath in the air. Debbie felt she could hardly stand the cold after stepping out of the Huos' house. They kept that place hot like summer with the heat on all the time. She took off her hat and scarf, unzipped her down jacket, and sat

came. "Thank you," she said to the barista who had

Gu, I'm here, so just say what you have

"You married Carlos Huo."

not a question but

Debbie nodded, "Yeah."

a pang in his

himself and stated, "I've heard that there's an arranged marriage in the works. The Huo family and Li family. Carlos and the daughter of the Li family grew up together and make a perfect couple. Everyone thinks that they'll get married sooner or later. James told the press a few days ago that the daughter of the Li family would be his

didn't like her. She represented a threat to their business interests. It turned out that he had chosen a daughter-in-law a long time ago.

problem. Carlos and I love each other. We'll convince his father to accept me." Carlos' family might have some problems with her right now, but that was no reason for her

she's not a blood relative." Hayden had done some research on Carlos. Although there wasn't much, he found out something

that the love between her and

her back. He said

mug to warm her hands. "When did I

Emmett, and you didn't deny it." He felt played, felt that he made a fool of himself

tell you who I

He leaned forward and

hands off me!" Debbie said angrily, trying to pull her