Chapter 23 He has never been her only choice
The driver held his breath and stared, even his breathing was deliberately lowered.
The president came here to wait for the president’s wife as soon as he was done with the business at hand, but the wife ended up getting all mushy with other men, no wonder the president was angry!
Bowen Carter clenched his fist, and his temples were throbbing.
He wanted to get out of the car right now and smash his fist into the man’s face! But his relationship with Tess Baker was so tense right now, something like this would only make things worse between them.
“… go!” Half a day later, Bowen Carter forced himself to take his eyes off of Tess Baker, allowing jealous rage to surge through his heart, his mouth as bitter as if he had been drinking Chinese medicine.
The driver shuddered in response, reached up and wiped a cold sweat on his head, stepped on the gas and left.
Ten minutes later, the car pulled into the Garden House.
Bowen Carter got out of the car with a frosty face and a surprisingly low pressure around him.
“Hello, young master!” The maids lined up in two rows, each with their heads down, afraid to provoke their young master.
Bowen Carter arrived in the hall, tossed the papers aside, and slumped on the sofa with a tired look.
The servants, who had rarely seen him like this, kept their heads down and breathed softly, trying to minimize their presence.
After a few moments, Bowen Carter straightened up and dialed assistant, “Send me the information of Tess Baker’s suitors in recent years.”
“Okay.” assistant answered, but in three or four minutes, the information was sent.
Bowen Carter clicked on the email, and the first thing he saw was the gentle, handsome stranger.
Name: Dennis Gate
Height: 183cm
Identity: Tess Baker college senior, the Gate Group chairman’s only son
Bowen Carter flipped through the information with such force that he almost scratched the phone screen.
Dennis Gate met him when he and Tess Baker were first married, only he hated her at the time for using tricks to climb into his bed and never cared about her at all.
Tess Baker…
It turned out that with so many men staring at her, he was never the only one she chose!
A strand of uneasiness climbed down the bottom of his feet and reached all the way to his heart, adding a few more depressions to an already empty heart room.
When he thought of the slap she received on her face today, his heart became even more irritated.
…
The Bentley’s lights came on as she walked away, and Tess Baker saw the license plate number, and her face turned instantly white.
“What’s wrong?” Dennis Gate was a little worried, wondering if she was not feeling well.
“Nothing.” Tess Baker couldn’t say why she was weak, as if her wife had been caught cheating, such a feeling annoyed her, “Senior, it’s getting late, you should hurry back to rest.”
“Okay, good night.” She was in such a hurry to drive him away, and there was a faint disappointment in his eyes.
But she was thinking about Bowen Carter at the moment and didn’t notice the change in his expression.
After he drove away, Tess Baker looked in the direction of the neighborhood entrance a few more times – the Bentley didn’t come back!
I can’t tell if she was disappointed or happy, but she was so upset that she went home and drank a big glass of water to feel better.
Tess Baker sat on the couch, thinking about all the wrong things.
How long has Bowen Carter been here? How much did you just see? Could there be a misunderstanding? Why did he leave later? Was he angry?
One by one, she was overwhelmed with questions, and her heart began to grow restless a little.
But she had nothing to do with Bowen Carter, right? Why should she think about his feelings?
Beep…
Beep…
Tess Baker immediately picked up her cell phone, and when she saw the caller ID, there was a disappointment in her heart that she didn’t even notice, “I’ve already dropped off the seniors and arrived home.”
“Let’s not talk about that!” Linda Mark was cranky at the moment, so angry she wanted to cut someone, “Your parents and your brother are here to borrow money again, do you want to borrow or not?”
Tess Baker has not contacted her family since the plane crash, and now her family thinks she is dead.
Hearing this, Tess Baker was stunned for a moment. She had heard similar news many times before, but every time she heard it, she still felt suffocated by the difficulty.
Linda Mark’s side wasn’t rushing, just huffing and puffing and panting, supposedly out of breath.
“Linda,” said Tess Baker after a long time, taking a deep breath, with a bit of determination: “Are they at your place at this moment? I’ll take a cab!”
“No, no, no! You’ve just managed to get rid of them, so if you lose everything like that, it’ll be a waste of effort!” Linda Mark refused, she called Tess to discuss a matter, not to make Tess come over to be angry!
Tess Baker licked her dry lips and lay down weakly on the sofa, “What are you going to do? They won’t stop until they can borrow the money.”
Her family is like a vampire, they can’t suck her blood, so they suck her friends’ blood.
Luckily this is Linda, if it were anyone else, I’m afraid they would have broken up with her already!
“I’m calling you because I want to tell you in advance: I keep lending them money, and it’s never ending, so I decided, to find some buddies to scare them!”
“Scare the hell out of them?”
Linda Mark tsked, “Tess, they don’t care about you anymore, you’re not going to care about them, are you?”
Every time she lent money to that family, it was Tess who paid for it!
“… You just don’t hurt them, or they’ll be more unrelenting.” Tess Baker hesitated and didn’t stop.
Just like Linda said, if this goes on, it will only endlessly!
Tess Baker gave a few more instructions, hung up the phone, sat dumbfounded for a while, then took a shower and crawled into bed.
Jingle bell!
Someone was ringing the doorbell.
Who could be here this late at night? Could it be Bowen Carter?
Tess Baker found a large rechargeable battery in her hand, slipped on her slippers, reached the door, and looked out the cat’s eye.
If it’s Bowen Carter, and he’s in heat, she’ll hit him with this large rechargeable!
But … came a strange little girl!
“Excuse me, are you Miss Tess Baker? This is your expedited order!” The little girl’s voice was sweet.
Tess Baker hmmm, then opened the door somewhat defensively, after all, she had never seen a delivery at this point.© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.
The little girl didn’t mind her vigilance, handing the item directly into her hand and then running off with a smile.
“Hey, little sister, I didn’t buy any medicine! Did you deliver it to the wrong place?” Tess Baker shouted at the little girl, but she just turned around and made a face at her and ran away.
Tess Baker took the ointment into the room, flipped to where it functioned, and read softly, “Reduce swelling and pain …”
She touched the slap marks on her face with a complicated look.
Only Bowen Carter and Snowy Cole knew she’d been hit, and Snowy Cole couldn’t have ordered the ointment for her, so it had to be Bowen Carter!
Tess Baker fished out her cell phone and found Bowen Carter’s cell phone number, hesitated, but didn’t press it.
She went back to wash her face, washed the skin care products off her face, then put on the ointment and laid down on the bed.
With something on her mind, she kept staring at the ceiling and fell asleep at nearly two o’clock in the morning.
As a result, it was hard to fall asleep and kept having nightmares at night, dreaming about the things she had experienced before –