Harry tightly hugged her in his arms, and although he was unhappy about her being an actress before,
he tried coaxing her, and said, "My wife succeeded in her career only on her personal competences,
not her charms!" Although he wanted to say "yes" very much, he had no choice but to coax her in order
to avoid being punished by her.
Lola couldn't help but smirk, and said, "That's my husband!"
Then, they went to taste some Bulgarian specialties together, including spicy roast beef and chicken
liver. The town was not very big; it was just as big as a small village in China.
It was four o'clock in the afternoon when they finally finished visiting every place they had wanted to.
The clouds were hanging heavy in the sky, with countless rays of light penetrating them and hitting the
ground. It was beautiful. As the photographer, Lola, of course, immediately took many pictures of the
splendid scene.
After they returned to Rose Valley, Harry took Lola straight to their room.
Joey was already waiting for them in the room, and there were multiple jars placed on the table.
Whey Joey saw the two people coming in, he bowed adequately and pointed towards the jars sitting on
the table, saying, "Mrs. Si, look!"
Lola watched the way he acted and couldn't help but laugh. "Little Joey, how generous you are!"
Joey giggled, "Mrs. Si, please, don't call me this way. I am not accustomed to it!"
"How about calling you 'Dear Joey'?" A cold voice was heard coming from Lola's back. Then, her
shoulders were tightly held by Harry's big palms.
Emm... Harry seemed to be angry, so Joey immediately stopped smiling and stood still. "Boss, I'm
sorry."
"Harry is so mean. I was just joking with his wife, it's not that much of a big deal!" Joey thought to
himself.
"You're sorry?" Harry held Lola's hand and walked towards the jars, and then he turned around and
seriously stared at Joey. "If you ever dare to have the same intentions as Chuck, I'll throw you back to
Mando Bay immediately and confine you there for the rest of your whole entire life!"
...
The other two people in the room were left speechless when they heard his words; Lola had also
probably known that Chuck was into her. But she was actually grateful that Harry liked her so much as
to go to such lengths.
Who did she think she was? "A princess charming"? That she could please everybody?
Joey raised his hand and swore right away. "Boss, please rest assured! I never dared to have any kind
of malicious intentions towards Mrs. Si, and if I ever dared, I..."
"Boom! Boom!" They heard the sound of thunder coming from outside the window and from the sky.
...
Inside, Joey was really embarrassed by the sudden rumbling of thunder.
He had heard about the weather conditions in Bulgaria, and he had known that thunder and lightning
were quite frequent visitors here, but it didn't occur to him that the thunder had come to his aid at the
perfect moment...
"Boss..." Joey wearily looked at the man in front of him, and it seemed that Harry had a murderous look
in his eyes.
Lola almost choked when she heard the sound of thunder. Was it really a coincidence?
"Get out!" Harry looked at Joey coldly, and he thought that he was another one of his friends who was
trying to take his wife away from him! He should really consider about keeping the little woman locked
inside the manor forever.
Joey didn't finish his sentence, but he was trying to say, "If I ever dared, I would die without having a
burial place..." Hoo. What an unfortunate guy he was.
He now had to make things clear, even though he had to leave, or otherwise he would never have the
chance to live a happy life again! "Harry, I really don't have any intentions with your wife. I'm not even
capable of dealing with Bonnie. How could I have that sort of intentions with someone else?"
When Harry heard him mentioning Bonnie, he finally eased a bit. Joey and Bonnie seemed to have
been dating smoothly each other for a while now, and the serious, and innocent, look on Joey's face
made Harry choose to believe him, for the time being.
"Explain to my wife what these are!" He ordered indifferently, with his hands placed on Lola's
shoulders.
Joey secretly cried out in his heart, and he was determined that from now on he would never try to sow
any sort of discord between the two people ever again!
Lola chuckled, thinking that her man was too mean. If Joey had liked her, he would have already
expressed his love to her four or five years ago. Why did he have to wait until today? He was too
sensible! And by the way, she had never thought of herself being so charming!
After scorning for a while the continuously rumbling thunder coming from outside, Joey fixed his mood
and started to introduce the cosmetics to Mrs. Si.
These were all skin care products, like toners, lotions and creams made out of essential oils extracted
from the Damascus roses.
The price of these essential Bulgarian oils was three times that of gold per kilo! It was crowned as
"liquid gold".
Somewhere between 3000 and 5000 kilograms of rose petals were used to extract just one kilogram of
rose essential oil. You can imagine that it was an extremely luxurious product...
After Joey told her about what he had generally learned about the products, Lola quickly understood
what he was trying to imply.
The skin care products were all-natural, with zero artificial chemical substances. You could've even
applied them on babies.
No wonder that Harry hadn't brought any skin care products for her on the plane; there were far more
better ones here waiting for her.
Lola felt that it was a little difficult to choose from all the products laid in front of her, so Harry said, "I
want four packages."
The woman looked at Harry with an astonished look on her face. "Why do you want so many?"
Harry replied calmly, "For my wife, my mother-in-law and my two sisters-in-law." Four packages,
exactly.
... Fine! Lola looked at the man, who was always self-composed, and admitted that she was deeply
touched by him.
But before she could say anything else, Harry asked, "Joey, don't you want to prove your innocence?
Be a good boy and go and pay the bill." The few packages filled with cosmetics were worth millions, at
most, but Joey could totally afford it.
"Harry Si, you bastard..." The two then simultaneously glanced at Joey with the same sharp look drawn
on their faces, making Joey swallow his words immediately.
How he had been trapped in such an awkward situation was a mystery! Why did he have to endure the
couple's bullying? He carried the packages with a sad look on his face and then went to pay for the bill.
When they left their room, outside, it had already become sunny, and it seemed as if the previous
thunderclaps had been just a mere illusion.
Joey looked up at the sky and sighed. Even God was mocking him! Why did he have to tolerate all of
this?
Then, he glanced at the skin care products in his arms and felt bad about the money he had to spend
on them. But when he realized that all of his money had been given to him by Harry, he felt much
better. He could just ask Harry to pay him back whenever he had the chance!
Yes! That was it!
Lola would not allow anyone else to say anything bad about her husband. She was the only one who
had the right to do that!
However, when Lola thought better of the expensive cosmetics, she felt a little guilty, and she looked at
the man who was now taking off his coat. "Do you really want Joey to pay for the bill?" she asked. She
knew that the products were very expensive merely by hearing words like "natural" and "purely
extracted from plants."
"Don't worry, I exactly know how rich he is! He'll eventually ask for a refund later." Harry had the final
say.
Oh! Okay then. Lola felt relieved when she heard that. She was worried that this might trigger some
sort of conflict between the two men. It seemed that she had overthought things...
It wasn't even nine o'clock in the evening yet, and Harry had been urging Lola, who was still playing her
cell phone, to come to bed.
"It's too early to go to bed. It's only half past eight now!" She rejected his offer. At home she was used
to go to bed only after ten o'clock.
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