"Mr. Carlos, welcome."
A fat man who came towards them attentively and extended his fat hand to shake hands with Carlos, obviously was the organizer of this reception, and judging from his dress, he was an important person as well.
"This is Mrs. Noel-Baker, right?"
"Yes, nice to meet you."
Alicia politely extended her hand, secretly giving a sign of relief, fortunately he did not call her the Seventh Mrs. Noel-Baker, otherwise she would be very embarrassed.
After greeting each other, the fat man and Carlos chatted about business matters, Alicia was bored, so she found a quiet place to sit down alone, sipping champagne while observing all kinds of people at the reception.
In the crowd, she saw a stern look from a woman, with her eyes full of jealousy.
Carlos was a notorious guy in many girls’ eye, but he had plenty of admirers as well. She consciously looked away, so as not to trigger a silent war.
But to her surprise, as she looked away, the woman slowly walked towards her.
"What’s up?"
She asked, raising her head to look at her.
"Don’t you know to stand up and greet when you see your Senpai?"
"Senpai?" She frowned, "I don't know you, right?"
The woman snorted, "Don’t you know out of courtesy, you should stand up and ask 'can I help you? Instead of being rude and asking 'What's up.'"
Alicia smiled helplessly, thinking she was another bitch looking for her trouble, she still did not stand up, "If you think it is unfair I am sitting while you are standing, then you can sit down as well, there is a lot of space for you to sit."
"You really are silver-tongued, right? No wonder recently everyone is rumored that Carlos meets his nemesis, at the beginning I do not believe it, but now, I think the rumor is true."
This woman turned out to be Carlos’s admirer. It was really a bad day!
"Miss, you are wrong, I am not Carlos's nemesis, to be precise, I am the one who ends his fate of flash marriage."
"Shame on you."
The woman suddenly reveals a hideous look, gritting her teeth and said, "No women can end Carlos's fate of flash marriage. Do not think you are beautiful, so that you can say whatever you want! Doesn’t your mother teach you to be a lady?"
"And does your mother teach you to be a lady? If your mother have taught you, you would not have come to get wild with me for no reason!"
The woman poured half a glass of champagne in her hand onto Alicia's face, and after a short moment of shock, Alicia did not show any weakness in her counterattack, pouring the champagne in her hand onto her face as well.
The woman may not have suffered such a humiliation, reaching out to slap Alicia, but suddenly her hand was grabbed tightly, she turned her head to look back in anger, skimming to see the person holding her hand, suddenly her anger ran away -
"Carlos... "
"Rebecca, how dare you to touch my woman, do you want to die?"
Alicia then knew that this arrogant woman was called Rebecca, but she still didn't know her.
"Carlos, she is your woman, am I not? Do you know how did she talk to me?"
"No matter how she talked to you, you deserve it. Get out of my sight right now, I don't want to see you for one more second."
Rebecca felt very sad and humiliated, she then cried out loudly, "How can you be so cruel to me, after all I am you ex-wife, and I am still in love with you."
"I don't feel any affection to you."
Carlos replied her firmly and heartlessly.
"Then what's better about this woman? Is she more beautiful than me? Or more capable than me? Or kinder than me?"
"She is prettier than you, more capable than you, and more importantly, she is smarter than you. Take this matter as an example, if your positions are switched, she will never find you trouble like a shrew, because she knows that this will only make me more dislike you, and you, a stupid woman, dare to talk to me about our ties of husband and wife. How ridiculous!"
Rebecca suffered a more serious blow, but also a bigger humiliation, she skimmed a look at the crowd of onlookers, with shame and anger, she covered her face and ran away wildly, giving a terrifying gaze at Alicia, as if she was about to eat her alive.
After such a dramatic scene, Carlos was not in the mood to stay longer, he leaned down and asked the woman next to him in a low voice, "Do you want to go home?"
Alicia nodded heavily, "Yes."
On the way back, Alicia was silent, Carlos glanced at her from time to time, "If you have any dissatisfaction, just say it."
"Which number she is?"
He was stunned, "What?"
"That woman just now, isn't she your ex-wife? Which number she is?"
"The third, oh no, the fourth."
Alicia's face sank, "Such a thing will happen more often in the future, right?" After all, he had six wives before her, which meant that she, in addition to Rebecca, had five enemies she had never met.
"It will never happen again."
"How can you be sure?"
"Of the ex-wives, only Rebecca is the most unreasonable, so she is also the only woman I have ever slapped."
Alicia heard him saying this, feeling a bit relieved. According to her current situation, dealing with Mia already caused her enough headache. She could not handle more enemies.
At the Cloud Mansion, she just got off the car as her cell phone rang, she glanced at the number, it was from Dillon, then said nervously, "You go in first, I have to take a call."
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