Standing in the airport, she was very troubled. But it was over, and it was useless for her to struggle with it. She could only wait until dawn before leaving.
Although under the same sky, different cities had different weather. T City was raining heavily, but the sky of B City was full of stars.
Mia went home very late after having fun with her friends. About two hundred meters away from the gate, she saw a sneaky figure. Driven by alcohol, she stepped forward quickly and yelled, “Who’s there?”
Frightened by her shout, the figure held his head and started crying, and it seemed to be a man from his voice. She couldn't help wondering, “Is she so scary? Just by one roar, a mature man can be scared to cry with fright?”
“Hey, who are you? Why are you sneaking around at my gate?”
She unceremoniously stepped forward and pushed him.
The man holding his head stopped crying, glanced at her secretly, and said meekly, “I, I'm looking for my wife.”
“Your wife? Who is your wife? Your wife is not in my house!”
“But the driver sent me here, at this address.”
The man hurriedly took out a crumpled piece of white paper from his jacket pocket, with a line of address written on it, and it was exactly the address of Mia's house.
“Strange, who gave you this?”
“It was stolen from my dad's study.”
“Who is your dad?”
“My dad is an upstart.”
Poof.
She couldn't help laughing, and he turned out to be a fool after all this endeavor.
“Bro, you are at the wrong place. We don't have your wife in our house. You can look elsewhere.”
Mia turned to leave, but the man stretched out his hand to drag her, “You lie, my wife lives here.”
She shook it off impatiently, and said disgustedly, “Pervert! I told you she’s not here. If you don't leave, I will call the police.”
The man started crying again, took out a six-inch photo from his pocket, and muttered to himself, “Alicia, Alicia, where are you? Don't you want Felix...”
Suddenly, Mia heard him call Alicia, stretched out her hand to grab the photo in his hand, fixed her eyes on it, and nearly dropped her eyeballs, “She is your wife???”
Felix sobbed and nodded, “Yeah.”
“You are saying that she is your wife?”
Mia asked again in disbelief.
“Yes, she is the wife my father bought for me.”
For a few minutes, Mia remained silent, only staring at the photo. She didn't know if she should believe this fool's words. If she didn’t, what's the matter with this photo? The person in it was indeed a thorn in her side—Alicia.
“Do you really want to find your wife?”
“……Yep.”
A flash of slyness appeared in Mia's eyes, “Well, I’ll take you to find her.”
She took Felix to a hotel and settled him down, and then began to inquire about the whole matter. Although he was a fool and he said in an intermittent way, she basically understood most of it by guessing and analyzing what he said.
“So, your father spent a lot of money to buy you Alicia as your wife? As soon as you both grow up, she must be yours?”
Felix nodded foolishly, “Yes.”
Mia jumped up with excitement, and all of a sudden she was wild with joy, “Bro, you are here at the right time, you know? Alicia is a perfect match for you, and no one is more suitable for her than you.”
Thinking of having unearthed Alicia's secret, she was so excited that she even wanted to sing. She would make her pay tenfold for the humiliation she had suffered before.
“Where is my wife? Aren’t you bringing me to find her?”
Mia stopped smiling and said, “Don't worry, she will be back tomorrow from a business trip. You can sleep here tonight. I will definitely take you to her tomorrow.”
Felix scratched his head, “All right then.”
As soon as Mia got home, she woke her sleeping mother up, “Mom, wake up, I have good news for you.”
Holly opened her eyes slightly, “What's up? Let's talk about it tomorrow, I'm so sleepy.”
“No, if you don't hear me, I will definitely not be able to sleep tonight.”
She started to talk about how she met Felix. Holly was completely awake after listening to what she said, “Is that true?”
“It's 100% true, Mom, now we have a chance to stand up. If we expose her secret, her marriage to Carlos will be a fraudulent one. At that time, let's see how she could still stay in the Noel-Baker family!”
“As soon as Carlos sends her out, we can humiliate her, and she will not even dare to enter our house again. We can also publicize her scandal and make her lose all her reputation in B City.”
Mia got more excited as she talked, Holly frowned suddenly, “No, you can't go directly to the Noel-Baker family to expose her.”
“Why?”
“Don't forget about the reason why Alicia married Carlos, which I and your father can’t get away with. If you expose it yourself, it is difficult to guarantee that Carlos will not vent his grievances on us, so it has to be reconsidered from the long-term perspective.”
Mia thought that her mother made sense, so after three hours of discussion, they finally decided to ask Alicia out and make her retreat.
Alicia just flew back from T City to B City, and when she got off the plane, she received a call from Mia, “Hello?”
“Where are you? Let’s meet.”
“Not available.” She rejected coldly.
Mia seemed to expect that she would reject her, so she was not angry. She said firmly, “You must come, otherwise you will regret it.”
“Oh? Give me a reason to go.”
“I won't tell you the reason for now, you will know when you come.”
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