"Why?" Joshua asked.

“Because they enjoy the thrill of the chase!"

“I'm not buying it. Matthew likes someone else." Joshua had always pitied Erica, thinking of her as a woman who had been forced by her family to marry a man who didn't love her.

“So what? Let me ask you something. Do you think Matthew has ever been afraid of anyone?"

Without having to think twice, Joshua quickly shook his head in response. The Hilton Group was under Matthew's rule now. With that in mind, why would he be afraid of anyone?

“That's right. So, why did he agree to Dad and marry Erica?" Sheffield asked again.

“Why?" Joshua wondered.

Sheffield looked at him, feeling so defeated.

"I have no idea, with such a Low EQ, how you managed to trick Terilynn into marrying you."

“Fuck off! Terilynn and I love each other!"

“Let me tell you, then. Matthew is..." Out of the corner of his eye,

Sheffield noticed Carlos, who had actually been staring at him for a while.

"Dad," he greeted him with a smile.

As soon as Carlos waved at him, Sheffield walked toward him and said to

Joshua, "I'll tell you later." Lately, Joshua felt Like Sheffield had been casting him aside more and more easily.

Inside the bathroom, through the reflection on the mirror, Erica looked at Matthew as he was washing his hands and couldn't help asking, “Why did you marry me?"

It was the same question she had asked him before on the day they got engaged.

Glancing at her in the mirror, Matthew flatly answered, “I wanted to do everyone a service, that way, you won't be able to harm someone else."

“Hey, that's not what you said last time!" Last time, his reasons seemed much better than this.

“Really? Is my answer any different from before?"

This left Erica at such a loss for words. It seemed that there wasn't any difference after all. As it turned out, the only difference was that his reply sounded much better last time.

For all she knew, he could have married her for any reason, but it couldn't possibly be because he was in Love with her!

Fine, then. She didn't care anymore. It wasn't like she loved him anyway.

That being said, the reason why she had to ask him again was that when

Matthew held her hand just now, for a fleeting moment, it gave her the illusion that he actually Liked her very much.