'Could this man be any more overbearing?' Debbie shook her head silently. She then wrapped her arms around Carlos' neck and said in an extremely tender voice, "Mr. Huo, it hurts, doesn't it? I had lunch with Kinsley earlier, and now, I just walked arm-in-arm with another man. Imagine how I felt when I watched you kiss Stephanie and get engaged to her."
Carlos realized that she had done all those things to get even with him, just as he had anticipated. The look in his eyes softened. He bowed down his head and kissed her on the lips.
The space inside the car was filled with passion and lust. But Debbie pushed the horny Carlos away and snickered, "Mr. Huo, we should stop here. I got my period today."
Carlos was frustrated. 'She is determined to torture me.'
They rode to the manor to see Piggy. When they arrived, Miranda welcomed them in.
She smiled at Debbie and said, "I just finished reading to her. She fell asleep. Do you want to check on her?"
"Yeah, thanks," Debbie replied.
She pushed the door open without making any noise. The light in Piggy's room had been dimmed to a perfect glimmer. If it were to be too bright, she would have difficulty falling asleep; if it were too dark, she would get scared. The little girl was sound asleep now.
Miranda went to her room to get some sleep. Carlos leaned on the door frame, looking at Debbie and Piggy tenderly.
Before he found out who Piggy really was, he had envied her parents so much. But it turned out that he was her father after all.
He was grateful to Debbie for giving him such a lovely daughter. He wondered when she would forgive him. If she did, the three of them could live together every day. How great that would be, he thought.
Debbie walked over to him and whispered, "I'm sleeping with Piggy. Good night." With that, she shut the door on his face.
He heard the lock click from the inside.
She was avoiding him, he realized.
While he was in the study, Carlos got a call from Frankie. "Mr. Huo, I found out." He had been expecting this call.
"Shoot."
"Miss Nian and Mrs. Miranda Huo had come up with the plan together."
Carlos wasn't surprised.
Frankie continued, "Mr. Wen had a part to play too. They worked together to make Miss Nian marry Ivan. On the one hand, it would stop Ivan's mom from pressuring him to get married and on the other hand, it would make you jealous." Frankie said the last word very cautiously. He paused for a reply.
Carlos closed his laptop and ordered, "Go on."
"There were others involved too. Xavier, Yates, and Curtis." 'So, they all played me, ' Carlos thought, squinting.
At first, the plan had included only Miranda, Ivan, and Debbie. But considering that Carlos was too smart for them, to make sure the plan would go perfectly, Debbie decided to get more people to work with her. So later, she persuaded Yates, Xavier, and Curtis to join her to pull it off.
When Xavier had sent Carlos the picture of Debbie in a wedding dress, it had actually been Debbie's idea.
Since they knew that Debbie and Ivan weren't in love, everyone in the group tried their best to bring Debbie and Carlos back together.
"What was Yates' part in their plan?" Carlos' voice betrayed no emotion.
Frankie coughed to cover his embarrassment before he continued, "Yates and Xavier knew long back that Miss Nian was your ex-wife. That was why they chose to be Piggy's godfathers. They kept the truth from you because they knew that once you and Miss Nian were back together, she would be the one in charge, and they wanted to see you get bullied around by her."
Carlos had always been a proud man and was looked up to by everyone. His friends wondered what it would be like if the powerful Carlos ever became submissive. But Carlos had different plans for the whole lot of them.
Starting from the very next day, the supervisory department and the police continued to show up at Yates' businesses. Yates couldn't catch a break.
Meanwhile, an announcement was posted on Xavier's official Weibo account saying that he would be representing everyone in court for free for the next three months, starting from that very day. Xavier received more than he had bargained for.
So far, Carlos had gotten back at Damon, Kinsley, Xavier, and Yates. Wesley, Ivan and Curtis were the only ones left.
Since Curtis was Debbie's uncle, he couldn't touch him. Wesley was his next target.
Carlos called him. He took a long drag on his cigarette and blew the smoke out. When the call connected, he spoke without any pleasantries. "I heard that things between you and your girlfriend haven't been going well lately."
Wesley knew Carlos. He was alert. He spat a mouthful of smoke too. "Carlos, I'm surprised that you still have time to think about me and Blair. Debbie hasn't forgiven you yet, and you have done nothing yet to make James and Stephanie pay. So, why don't you just mind your own business?"
Wesley had proposed to Blair, but she had turned him down. He wanted a baby; she said no to that too. He was pissed.
Under the current circumstances, he had to be very careful not to give Carlos a chance to create more trouble for him.
"I'm not worried about Debbie. Claiming her heart is an easy task; I just have to get her into bed with me. As for James and Stephanie...I'm waiting for the perfect moment, and then, they are done."
Carlos seemed to have an answer for everything. Wesley frowned. "You still have your ZL Group to run. Focus on that, and stop nosing around." 'Damn that old goat, James!' Wesley cursed inwardly. If that man hadn't deceived all of them and turned them against Debbie, Carlos wouldn't be going after them now.
Carlos put out the cigarette and said, "All right."
'All right?' Wesley didn't believe a word that came out of the Devil's mouth. "Relax. I'm going to apologize to Debbie," Wesley assured him.
"I've been chasing Debbie for so long, and she's not making it easy for me. As my friend, you can't just sit there and do nothing. Help me," Carlos said with a faint smile.
'Help him?' Wesley frowned. Carlos would never ask anyone for help. "You broke Debbie's heart and created a hell of a mess for yourself. Don't drag me into it. I'm warning you, Carlos, don't create any trouble for me. Blair is not as tough as Debbie, you know. She can't live on her own. She is a dodo. She won't be able to survive without me."
Carlos chuckled, "You talk about your girlfriend like that behind her back? Aren't you worried that she might hear you?"
"She is sleeping in the bedroom and I'm in the living room."
Just then, a soft voice came from behind him, "Wesley..."
Startled, Wesley choked on the smoke and coughed violently.
Blair wasn't loud, but Carlos heard her clearly. "Take care, buddy!" he said to Wesley and hung up with a smirk.
Wesley was stunned. He didn't know what to say to her.
"Do I look that useless to you?" Blair asked him with a pained expression. She knew that she wasn't the smartest person in the room. Otherwise, she wouldn't have failed time and again to run away from this man.
But it still hurt to hear him talk about her like that to others.
Wesley put out the cigarette and walked to her. "I was just joking around with Carlos," he explained with an awkward look on his face.
"Oh," Blair responded. He knew that she wasn't convinced, but he didn't know how to comfort her. It was all Carlos' fault. If he could, he would make that hateful man run a hundred kilometers with a twenty-kilogram load on his back.
Before Ivan's wedding, news that the ZL Group was going to take over the Wen Group was spread everywhere. Nobody knew why or if it was true.
Only very few people knew that it was all because Carlos was enraged. So many of them had already suffered under his rage. And it was all for Debbie.
Ivan was very busy dealing with the issues at hand. It was true that Carlos was about to buy out the Wen Group.