“Honey, as long as you behave well, I promise you will be the happiest woman in the world."
“Behave well? Am I not obedient enough now? What else does he want me to do?’ she thought to herself. She pulled his hand away and said, "You know what? You've beaten up Watkins so badly that he can't even move in his hospital bed. The poor man begged me not to quarrel with you! He said he would never send me roses again. You should go and apologize to him..."
“You want me to apologize to him?" Matthew's eyes were wide with anger.
Erica nodded and said, "Yes, or we can visit him together and apologize to him."
Matthew stood up straight, put his hands into his pockets and quietly suppressed the anger in his heart. After a long time, he looked at his wife and said, “Okay, I'll apologize to Watkins, but only if you apologize to Camille. After all, you slapped her, didn't you? What's more, it is because of me that she is lying in a hospital bed right now."
‘He wants me to apologize to Camille?' Erica was burning with anger.
“Matthew, how dare you ask me to apologize to a woman who tried to seduce my husband!"
The atmosphere in the office was tense, almost as if a huge fight was about to break out.
“Rika, you can't have it both ways. If you can't apologize to Camille, then how can you ask me to apologize to a man who tried to seduce my wife?"
His rhetorical question rendered Erica speechless.
After a while, she stared into his eyes and asked, “Are you blaming me for slapping Camille? Are you blaming me for ruining your relationship with her?"
Hearing what Erica said, Matthew got angry. He wondered what kind of person he was in her eyes. He stared at her. ‘Can't you see my love for you? Do you even know how much I love you? Or you just don't want to face that truth?' "Do you mean that I've ruined your relationship with
Watkins?" he asked. After all, he had also beaten Watkins up.
Erica sighed and explained calmly, “Nothing happened between me and
Watkins. There wasn't even any physical contact. Shouldn't you be apologizing for beating him up like that? And as for you and Camille, I slapped her because she held your hand and had physical contact with you. Do you get it?”
The point was that Matthew was too cruel. She wouldn't have come here to argue with him if he hadn't beaten Watkins up to such a state.
Matthew had almost crippled him.
“Erica, we both know what red roses mean. He was expressing his Love for you by sending you those flowers. You should know, I‘m a man, and your husband, nonetheless. Now that he dared to provoke me like this, he should have prepared himself to bear my anger. He had it coming."
His breaths were deep. He regretted giving Watkins just a beating.
In his anger, Matthew thought he should have buried him alive, Leaving
Erica no chance to see him. Erica pounded his shoulder heavily. Seeing that his eyes were so fierce as if he were going to kill her, she continued to vent her anger out on him.
"Go away! I don't want to see you."
Matthew grabbed her wrist and held her tightly in his arms. He asked her coldly, "Then who do you want to see if you don't want to see me?
Watkins?"
Erica couldn't move in his arms. She was so angry that she simply raised her head and bit his chin. She didn't let go of him until she was sure that her teeth had left marks.