The president's seventh bride

Alicia shrugged. "Your brother is on a business trip."

Aurora felt so happy, "Are you feeling bad because my brother is on a business trip? It turns out that your relationship has been so good! You feel bad without his accompany."

"Aurora, you really don't know, or you are just pretending?"

"Huh? Know what?"

"Your brother is a gay."

"My brother is a gay? Are you kidding me?"

She sighed, "Trust me, it is true. That man told me about this, and your brother also did not deny it."

Carlos was a tough guy. If it was not true, he would not let others gossip about his sexual orientation.

"Who is that man?"

"Alex Henderson."

"Alex?" Aurora burst out laughing and could not stop. "Sister Alicia, you have been tricked. Alex definitely is not gay. He is my brother's best assistant and friend. If they were lovers, then I would go mad." Alicia finally relieved after getting this answer. In fact, it was not that she was easy to cheat, but she was too sensitive about this topic that Carlos hated women...

"Hey, why would you go mad? You have crush on Alex?"

Aurora had always been honest, "Well, you got me."

Alicia absolutely liked her character; Aurora was always straight and not lying. "What about him? Does he like you too?"

"I don't know. He never showed love to me. Alex was an orphan without powerful background. I didn't dare to tell him about my love. I was afraid that he would be under too much pressure." This was the story. Alicia comforted her sister-in-law, "It is okay. As long as you don't give up, family status is not a problem to hinder true love."

Alicia really felt good when Carlos was on a business trip. When she came home from work, she sat in the living room and chatted with her parents-in-law freely. After having dinner in the evening, she went upstairs early. She thought of the fight with him last night, and there was an idea suddenly appearing in her heart. Why not enjoy his room while he was on a business trip these days?

The weather was getting hotter. Although there was air conditioning in the room where she lived, she always felt stuffy because the windows were usually sealed off. What's more, she had to go to the next room to take a bath every night.

"Right, I'm doing this." She took her pajamas and went into Carlos's bathroom, which was really luxurious. You could not see any flaws and dirt even with a magnifying glass of five hundred times in this spacious and white bathtub. Carlos was indeed a clean freak. It was horribly clean from the ground to the washstand.

This was a jacuzzi. She drew a hot bath, and lay there in the bubbles. She felt at ease in an instant. What's even more amazing was that there was automatic music in the bathroom. When you lay in the water and closed eyes, you could hear the wonderful music. She could not help sighing with feeling; this guy was really good at enjoying...

After the shower, standing by his bed and thinking about his excessive behavior of changing the bed last time, she lay on his bed with a feeling of revenge. She rolled several times before she got up satisfactorily to review tomorrow's teaching. At ten o'clock sharp, she closed her book and sat on his bed. After some struggle, she picked up her phone and called him.

The phone rang for a long time before it was connected. As always, the cold voice came, "What's up?"

Alicia took a deep breath and asked, "Have you arrived at the destination?"

"Nonsense, this time is enough to go to Mars."

She curled her lips and thought, if he knew that she was lying in his bed and talking to him on the phone, and just took a bath in his bathtub, then he definitely would go crazy.... "Oh, when will you come back?"

"None of your business."

"You think I care? It is mom who tells me to ask you. Don't know why you left without telling anybody!"

Carlos's attitude was slightly better after hearing mom's name, "Next Wednesday."

Great, there were still five days.

"Well, I see, bye."

She hung up the phone, turned off the lights and prepared to sleep. When she just closed her eyes, the phone rang. Alicia saw that the call was from Carlos, she hesitated one second but stilled answered immediately, "Is there anything else?"

"Don't hang up before me in the future."

"Fine."

"Don't call me if you have nothing urgent."

"Fine."

"What else can you say except this answer?"

"Goodbye."

Two days before Carlos came back, Alicia just finished a class at school. She took the textbooks through the long corridor and went to the office, but ran into the Ellie on the half way. "Alicia, hurry up, your aunt is here."

Her heart lost a beat and frowned, "Where is she?"

"Outside the school gate, the doorman called your office phone and I answered it."

Alicia felt frustrated and sighed, and she knew that something bad definitely had happened. Her uncle's family was always like this, coming to her only when they were in trouble. Handing the textbooks to Ellie, she went straight out of the school gate. Her aunt was standing in the shade of trees, fanning herself with a newspaper impatiently.

As soon as she saw Alicia, Lola Roberts threw away the newspaper and ran towards her. "Alicia, your uncle got in trouble. You have to figure out a way to help him, please..." "What happened again?"

Alicia was not surprised at all. Her uncle Ramon Calhoun was her only relative except her own father. But he was a jerk like her father, mercenary and hypocritical.

Over the past years, this family had caused her a lot of trouble. If it were not for her mom's last wish, she would not bother to take care of them.

"Yesterday, some officers from the Administration for Industry and Commerce came to our store. They wanted to take away our cigarettes. Your uncle refused and had words with them. They arrested him." Lola's eyes became red, as if there were tears coming out, showing a poor look to obtain Alicia's mercy.

"Why does the Administration for Industry and Commerce confiscate your cigarettes? Are you selling fake cigarettes again? "

"Just a few, not so much..."

Alicia rubbed her forehead with depression and questioned angrily, "Is it really just a few? Liar! How many times have I told you not to sell fakes? Why do you always forget my words? Now you turn to me, and honestly I also do not have solutions. What can I do?"

"You marry into a rich family. This thing should be a piece cake for you..."

"Listen to me, my marriage is not for handling the mess for you. Was Uncle Ramon arrested just because of some simple quarrel?"

Even if the Aunt Lola did not tell the truth, she knew it well.

Lola nodded guiltily and shook her head again to deny. Knowing that she couldn't hide from her niece, she finally had to confess truthfully, "He slapped the officer."

My gosh. Alicia was speechless. He thought he was right to sell fake cigarettes? Come on! And he even slapped the officer? He thought who he was? The King?

"What should I do now? I tried to go to the police station to see your uncle, but they didn't let me in. I'm really worried that he will be beaten by them due to his temper..."

"You are worrying now? It's too late. Why didn't you worry when selling fake goods? Uncle Ramon asked for the beating. If he does not get some punishments this time, he will never learn the lessons." Lola suddenly became unhappy, "Alicia, what are you saying? He's always your uncle even if he has done something wrong. If we had not helped you and your mother when you were in the most difficult time, could you stand here and talk to me now? You can't be ungrateful."

"I didn't say that I would not help him. What I am telling you now is that you cannot do things that violate social morality. If you are not aware that you are wrong, then I won't help. Maybe I can't be ungrateful, but I also can't lose my conscience!"

Lola knew Alicia's temper, so she softened her tone, "OK, I know I was wrong. I promise you that there will never be another time. After you get your uncle out, we would immediately remove all the fakes." Although it was very difficult, Alicia could only promise, "You go back first, I will try to help."

In the afternoon, she was absent-minded. Noah felt her abnormality, as he always paid much attention to her.

Noah came to ask Ellie and got to know Alicia's distress and difficulties.

Her husband's family was extremely rich and powerful, and nothing was difficult for this family. But selling fake cigarettes was hard to talk about, kind of shameful.

The next morning, on Alicia's way to school, she received the call from Lola, "Alicia, your uncle has come out. Really thanks for your help. We will keep it on mind."

She was astonished and asked uncertainly, "What? Uncle Ramon is out?"

"Yes, he came out last night. You help us a lot; we will go to see you at noon."

"Hey, it's not..."

She didn't finish her words, but Aunt Lola had hung up the phone. Why did the Uncle Ramon come out before she asked for help from the Noel-Baker family?

Ellie gave the answer to her. It turned out that Noah helped her. They had been colleagues for two years. Of course, she knew that Noah's father was the Director of the Public Security Department in B City. Alicia felt pretty embarrassed after knowing the truth suddenly. They had not talked to each other since that night by the lake side.

She persuaded herself and finally knocked on the door of the Principal's office at noon. She said awkwardly, "Thank you so much for my uncle's business."

Noah smiled gently and made fun of her, "That's it? Not sincere enough. "

"Then what do you want?"

Alicia was rather uneasy, worrying that he would ask for too much.

He thought for a moment. "Inviting me to dinner is okay, tomorrow night?"

This request was really easy, but she could not agree at once. One the one hand, she knew Noah's crush to her, on the other hand, she did not forget Carlos's warning that night.

"Not okay? If it is hard for you, never mind."

Noah's eyes flashed a little hurt meaning. That eyes stung Alicia's heart. She felt that she was too cruel to him. "OK, no problem."

Somehow, she agreed.

After Alicia left the Principal's office, Noah's smile disappeared suddenly. He closed his eyes in pain. He was really sad about not getting this woman's love, but only could hide the sadness into the heart temporarily. He had waited for two years, another three months was fine.

What he could do now was to wait for that guy who often got divorced to abandon Alicia. Then he could take his beloved Alicia's hands.

Carlos would come back tomorrow, and Alicia was a little reluctant to say goodbye to this room when lying in his bed at night. Except for the cold color style, this room was awesome.

She hoped he could travel for a year or longer, or just let her spend this summer peacefully. Small wish, but it was hard to come true.

At night, she slept soundly, and suddenly a chill approached. Through the moonlight outside the window, she seemed to see a shadow standing in front of her. She was shocked and sat up awake. She asked in a panic, "Who are you?"

The bedside lamp was switched. "Who do you think I am?"

Alicia was shocked. She did not expect that Carlos was coming home. "D*mn, he was definitely going to crush me."

"You... why are you back now?" Didn't he say Wednesday? Did she remember the wrong date ...

"Only when I come back now suddenly can I know if anyone is doing something bad when I am away." Carlos's eyes showed a dangerous signal, "Alicia, how dare you? Sleeping on my bed?"

"Please, I can explain. Don't be mad, calm down, calm down."

Alicia tried her best to ease him. If he went crazy in the middle of the night, the whole family would be woken up.

"You don't have to explain, your behavior is the best evidence. Now that you want to get in touch with me so much, I will meet you."

Carlos took off his suit angrily after saying this, threw it on the sofa, and pounced on her.

"What are you doing?!"

Carlos's icy lips touch hers when she just asked. She looked at him with horrified open eyes, just like a still statue. And she could not stop his tongue reaching her neat teeth. He instantly invaded her mouth, swept the land, and hooked on her soft tongue to dance endlessly.