"But I'm really sleepy," Carlos said with a secret grin.
He leaned closer to kiss Debbie on her lips tenderly. Then, he slowly moved to her face and neck without stopping. Debbie rolled her eyes and said in her mind, 'Liar.'
"Let me go! I need to take a shower," she protested.
Carlos kept her pressed against the wall, pulled out the bank card from his pocket and gave it to her. "I've earned around three billion dollars in the past two months. If you sleep with me now, I'll ask Tristan to wire the money to your account immediately."
Debbie almost laughed out loud when she saw Carlos' pitiful expression. She suppressed the giggles and asked, "I took all your money and properties before I left. Are you not angry? Are you sure you want to give me more money?"
"No, I'm not angry. And yes, I want to give you more. As long as you come back home with me, I will give you everything I have," Carlos promised.
Tears welled up in Debbie's eyes. 'Is this the same aloof CEO? He is such a fool!' she thought.
"Honey, why are you crying?" Carlos tensed up.
Debbie took the card from him and put it back into his pocket. She stood on tiptoe to cradle his neck and then gave him a gentle kiss. "Honey, I never used the money I had taken from your account. I just wanted to scare you so that you'd cherish me more in the future."
Carlos kissed her back while saying, "You don't have to explain. You can do whatever you want with it. Just promise me that you won't leave me again. I can't sleep without you by my side." What Debbie didn't know was that Carlos was aware of it when she had begun to transfer his money and properties into her account.
'Silly woman. Did she really think that I wouldn't know about it? I wouldn't be able to run ZL Group if I was so naive, ' he thought with a faint smile.
Debbie nodded her head vigorously.
The air between them was tender and warm.
Meanwhile, in Y City, some daily reporters tried to learn about Carlos and Debbie's current status from their friends. When they asked the group whether Carlos and Debbie were divorced and whether she had run away with all his money, they simply smiled and said nothing.
That night, some paparazzi in Bangkok took photos of Carlos and Debbie kissing at the roadside and posted them online.
And the next day, the couple appeared at Y City Airport. Debbie wasn't wearing a hat or a mask this time. They just showed up in public, holding hands and looking adorable.
The crowd of reporters outside the airport tried to interview them and bombarded them with questions.
Carlos only answered one.
"Mr. Huo, did you go to Bangkok just to pick up your wife?" a reporter asked.
Carlos looked at him and answered indifferently, "Yes. My wife got tired of her world trip. So, I went there to bring her back home."
The airport erupted in an uproar. Their fans looked at the couple with admiring smiles.
They went back to the manor together. That night, Evelyn sat on the bed, watching her mother reprimand her father as if she were disciplining her son.
"How did you feel while I was away?" she asked.
"Very bad," he simply answered. 'You just wait till I get you in bed tonight!' he thought.
"Will you listen to everything I say in the future?" she asked.
"Yes," he answered. 'Do I even have a choice?'
"Do you love me?" she asked on purpose.
"Of course, I do!" he answered without any hesitation. 'She already knows the answer!' he thought with a pout.
"Will you fool around with other women again?" she asked.
"No, I won't," he said lazily. 'I've never fooled around with other women, ' he thought, absolutely determined to teach her a lesson that night.
Debbie smiled and said, "Still want to argue?"
Carlos immediately put on a flattering smile. "You're the boss, honey."
After a while, Debbie went to the cloakroom. When she was out of earshot, Evelyn approached her dad and said in a whisper, "Daddy, please don't piss Mommy off again. I'm scared of her too. I may not be able to help you."
Carlos laughed and nodded. He scooped her up in his arms and kissed her cheeks repeatedly. He was so happy to have the three most important women in his life.
One day, Debbie posted an update on Weibo saying, "My husband has fallen in love with someone else. What should I do?"
Instantly, her Weibo account was flooded with comments and messages. Her fans wondered whether Carlos was cheating on her.
Within two minutes, Debbie deleted the post because she had forgotten to post the pictures.
Before long, she wrote another post. The text was the same, but there were three pictures along with it. In the first picture, Carlos and Evelyn were sitting on the sofa and watching TV. It was some comedy show, and father and daughter were laughing heartily.
In the second one, Terilynn, who was in her diaper, was standing on Carlos' face. The CEO was not angry at all. He was holding his daughter tightly and had a warm smile on his face.
The third one was Debbie's selfie, in which she was looking at the camera with a lonely look.
Her fans heaved a sigh of relief. Someone commented, "Buy more books for the elder one so that she will have less time with Mr. Huo. But as for the one in the diaper, sorry, but I don't know how to deal with her."
"Just give up! You won't be able to deal with them in this life," someone wrote.
"Not only will you be unable to deal with them, but you also have to take care of them," another one wrote.
After reading the funny comments for the next two hours, Debbie looked at Carlos and asked, "Mr. Huo, who was it that said he preferred a son to a daughter?"
He pulled her into his arms. "That turned out to be a slap in the face."
Debbie rolled her eyes, and then laughed with him.
When Debbie gave birth to their third baby, she was thirty-three years old and Carlos was forty. Evelyn was ten and Terilynn was five. They were blessed with a baby boy, and his name was Matthew Huo.
Debbie looked at the boy in her arms and told Carlos in disbelief, "I thought it would be a girl!"
Carlos accused coldly, "Looks like you had a lover in your previous life."
Debbie used to say that a daughter was her father's lover in his previous life. She had dug her own hole with that.
When Debbie recovered from the delivery, Carlos had sex with her every night. "What happened to you? Why are you so horny?" she asked in confusion.
He pressed her against the bed. "I want a fourth baby," he simply said.
'What? A fourth baby?' Debbie was shocked. "You didn't even want me to have our third baby. I had to puncture the condoms so that we could have Matthew. Why do you suddenly want a fourth baby?"
Carlos repeated what she had told him before. "I'd like to see how many lovers you had in your previous life."
Debbie cried out as her body was killing her. "Honey, please spare me," she pleaded.
Carlos chuckled. Debbie was his queen, and he was like her slave most of the times. But when they were in bed, he was the undisputed king.
"Will you bully me in the future?" he asked.
"No, no, no. Wait! I have never bullied you before!" she protested.
Carlos leaned against the headboard. "Are you saying that it's just the way you love me?"
"Bingo! Honey, I'm so much in love with you." She winked at him.
Carlos' smile broadened as he said affectionately, "I love you too, honey."
They looked each other in the eye. Then, Debbie threw herself into his arms. "Muah!"
'Deb, I'll love you and dote on you for the rest of our lives!' he swore to himself.