Spoil Me More, Dear Huaband

Tess Baker shook her head and asked, “Did Bowen Carter say when he was coming back?”

Aunt Zhang, “No. Why don’t I call now and ask?”

“No need.” Tess Baker took a bite of the dish and put it in her mouth; she had something on her mind and didn’t even taste it.

With Bowen Carter out of the picture, she just might be able to contact Frank Duke, and maybe he could help her leave today.

But what if he helped the fake Wendy Summer escape not just to prove his strength, but because he’s in cahoots with the fake Wendy Summer and has other plans?

Aunt Zhang had been watching her, and when she saw her face, she snuck out to call Bowen Carter.

“Sir, I don’t see Tess looking too good, but she won’t let me call a doctor …” Aunt Zhang said worriedly as soon as the phone was connected.

Bowen Carter sounded noisy on the other end, and with a cold ‘I’ll take care of it’ he hung up.

…

Bowen Carter had rushed back before Tess Baker had finished her meal.

Due to running too fast, his black shirt was loosened by two buttons, and his good-looking collarbone was covered with a layer of watery light, but with a few contradictory sexiness.

“You’re pretty upset that she ran away.” Tess Baker couldn’t tell you what was going on inside, it wasn’t very good all in all.

“What’s the rush?” Bowen Carter frowned, his gaze falling on her pale face, and without waiting for an answer he went on to ask, “Are you unwell somewhere?”

“It’s none of your business if you’re comfortable or not, just go find her, don’t worry about me. I couldn’t run away even if I wanted to anyway.” Tess Baker couldn’t say what she was squirming about, but her heart felt like it was clogged with a ball of soggy cotton, stuffy with a grimy dampness.

And he said something about only ever loving her, his words really didn’t have a lot of credibility.

Bowen Carter frowned at her, bent down hard, and picked her up.

“What are you doing?” Tess Baker shoved him, but he was too strong for her to break free.

“The doctor’s coming over to check you out.” Bowen Carter moved his hands so he could hold her more securely and warned, “Don’t move.”

It would fall, and when it hurt her, he would be the one with the heartache.

He carried her up the stairs.

The doctor came over quickly, asked Tess Baker a few questions, took a few more tests, and finally said that there was nothing serious wrong with her, just that her blood sugar was low and she needed to get well.

After sending the doctor away, Bowen Carter sat down on the edge of the bed and looked at Tess Baker and suddenly said, “Grandpa told me to go look for fake Wendy Summers, I didn’t go and left it up to the oldest six to take care of things, and I just went to THE Ford family.”

Listening to this, the cotton of Tess Baker’s heart is still there, but it’s gone from wet cotton to dry cotton, which at the very least is breathable.Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.

“Don’t be mad, I don’t care about any woman but you.” Bowen Carter wasn’t good at this kind of coaxing, and said it with a touch of rawness, more like a command.

“Whether you care about other women or not is none of my business.” He made it sound like she cared about him and she frowned, not wanting to continue the conversation, “What were you doing at THE Ford family?”

She regretted asking just then, what was it to her what he was doing at the Ford family?

“If you don’t feel comfortable talking about it, you …” goes without saying.

“Nothing inconvenient.” Bowen Carter interrupted her directly, he told her whatever she wanted to know, he didn’t need secrets in front of her, “the Ford family wanted Cliff Ford to marry Lily Yang, but he wouldn’t.”

Tess Baker sneered, if she didn’t want to marry someone, why did she get together then?

Bowen Carter, “He’s had a falling out with his family over this, and his parents have asked me to come over and try to convince him.”

“What happened?” Tess Baker lowered her eyes, “Did you convince him?”

Convinced or not, Linda and Cliff Ford are out of the question, but she still wants to know Cliff Ford’s final choice.

“I just told him to do what he wanted and that I could help him if he was in trouble.” Bowen Carter tucked her in and paused before saying, “He finally agreed to marry Lily Yang.”

Tess Baker’s eyelids snapped up, her eyes full of disbelief.

“The wedding date has been set, in two months.” Bowen Carter said in a hushed voice.

Tess Baker opened her mouth, but in the end just let out a sneer and said nothing.

She’d always looked down on Cliff Ford, and her relationship with him hadn’t been good, or even a little bad. But she thought he would at least rebel against his family and be a little manly … Meh, now she didn’t look down on him, she looked down on him!

“That’s between him and Linda Mark, and there’s no use worrying about it.” Bowen Carter paused for a moment with his eyes on the stray hair at the corner of her forehead and naturally helped her gather it to one side.

She’s just had a baby and it’s better to worry less about the bad stuff.

Tess Baker hadn’t expected him to do that, and when she tried to turn her head to avoid it, it was too late; his fingertips touched her forehead for just a moment and then left. But where he had touched her, she always felt her senses stand out, unusually uncomfortable.

“Do you men all love each other when you see one?” Tess Baker hadn’t wanted to ask, but there was a breath in her heart that couldn’t get up or down, and it was hard to bear.

She’d also seen enough in her five years at the mall that whether or not there was a wife at home or a girlfriend at home didn’t hold the men back from having fun at all.

Bowen Carter didn’t like the way she was looking at him at the moment, like she’d seen a cat that had been cheating on him, and he wrinkled his nose and said coldly, “They, not me.”

“So the baby in Wendy Summer’s belly was magically conjured?” Tess Baker sat up and leaned against the back of the bed, her eyes filled with sarcasm and a deeply hidden anger.

The atmosphere in the room instantly condensed.

Bowen Carter was silent for a moment before saying, “I was drunk that night and have no memory of it.”

He’d had sex with Tess Baker before when he’d been drunk, and instead of forgetting, he’d remembered it with exceptional clarity, and this time the lack of any memory at all struck him as less than normal.

Add to that the fact that this Wendy Summer is a fake and there may be someone else behind her, and he suspects that night was just a setup.

But it was all just his speculation, there was no evidence for it, and for him to actually voice these speculations would only make Tess Baker think he was being sophomoric.