Alicia knew exactly the reason why Carlos told her to go upstairs, which was nothing but the necklace around her neck. It turned out that she was right.
"Who allowed you to wear this necklace?" He questioned with a cold countenance.
"Isn't this for me?"
Huh, he sneered, "You're so much better at being self-righteous than before. What makes you so confident that this necklace is for you?"
"My intuition."
"Don't you know that you intuition is as bad as you?"
"If it was not for me. Who were you going to give it to?"
Carlos replied in a cold voice, "None of your business, and it's not for you anyway. Please put it back where it was, now."
Alicia took off the necklace resentfully, holding it in her hand, walked to the trash can, and asked him, "Do you really want me to throw away your gift with my own hands?"
"Don't be self-righteous, I'll never give a gift to someone I don't love."
Carlos grabbed her necklace, trotted to the window and threw it out of the window.
After that, they stopped saying a word. Carlos slammed the door angrily and left. Alicia stood by the window and watched his car disappear into the distance. She turned running downstairs to the shady lawn outside, bending over to look for it carefully.
The lawn was large, and she searched for it for a long time. Fortunately, the necklace was finally found. But this time, she didn't dare to wear it around her neck, but locked it in the drawer.
In the evening, Carlos didn't go home, and even didn't come back for dinner. It was inevitable that business people would have dinner parties, and Alicia had got used to it.
At ten o'clock at night, hardly had she just gone to bed did she hear a crash noise next door. She opened the door in confusion, only to find Carlos fall to the ground.
She hurriedly walked over to help him up, and smelled the strong smell of wine on him. Her delicate eyebrows frowned as she asked, "Why do you drink so much?"
Carlos shook off her hands in disgust. "Don't touch me."
Then he stumbled towards the bed, and almost fell down again for not walking steadily. Alicia stepped forward to hold Carlos again by instinct, but was refused by Carlos ungratefully. Carlos said, "Get away from me!"
Alicia said angrily, "I know you hate me. But as long as I am your wife, I should fulfill my duty."
"Your duty?"
Carlos smiled sarcastically, "Is the wife's duty to deceive her husband and date other men?"
"I have explained that to you. What you saw before is not the truth."
"Oh, yes, you have explained that you just invited that Noah to dinner out of gratitude for his favor."
"Yes, that's how it is."
Alicia thought he finally understood her. But quite the opposite, he didn't understand it at all. To be more precise, he didn't intend to understand this matter. Carlos claimed, "If you need any sort of help, you can come to me. I have money and some contacts. If you ask for my help, I will solve it for you. Why do you have to find another man?"
"At that time, you were on a business trip."
"So would you come to me if I didn't go on a business trip? I'm afraid you'll still seek another man!"
Alicia was somewhat depressed by his question but still continued to patiently explain, "I didn't look for him. He took the initiative to help me."
"Are you saying that you are popular with men? Maybe it's quite so since I chose you when I meet you for the first time, which shows how amazing you are, and you can easily twist any men around your little finger."
"Do you feel comfortable after humiliating me like this?"
"That's just what you think. I'm just judging the matter on its own merits. Although I've been divorced six times, you are definitely the worst of my wives."
"Yes, I am the worst wife. Just hate me as you like. I don't care!"
"A woman of easy virtue like you, of course, couldn't care less. Even if you make a cut on others' hearts, it means nothing to you. I am really shocked to find out you are just the same kind of women."
Alicia couldn't bear such humiliation and raised her hand to slap Carlos in the face. She said, "It doesn't matter how you speak of me, but I will never tolerate you humiliating my mother. It's true that my mother is a club dancer, but she's not what you said!"
Carlos looked at Alicia in shock. "How dare you?"
"I assume that you have never been slapped in the past thirty years. And today this slap is to tell you that all men are created equal. Do not think that you are born noble and you soul is pure. In my opinion, people who don't know how to respect others are not as good as pimps in the nightclub."
After finished speaking, Alicia hurried to her secret room. However, Carlos got in her way, "What do you mean the nightclub and pimps?"
"You understand this but you just pretend not to. Carlos, I wonder, since you don't love me, why do you care about whom I am be with? Have you ever been betrayed by a woman?"
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