Debbie noticed Carlos' move at once. "Stop right there!" she warned. "Since you like beautiful women, why not sleep with her? She's beautiful. Since you're a clean freak, I've checked for you. She's as clean as a whistle."
Carlos soothed her, "I don't like any other woman. I only love you. Honey, I don't fear that you won't remember me. Even if you had amnesia, I'd find a way for you to fall in love with me again just as you did with me. The medicine will harm you and our baby. That's what I'm afraid of."
His remarks were full of genuine concern. He loved her. He really loved her from the bottom of his heart. That was why no matter what she did or how unreasonable she was, he cared about her all the same.
Debbie had always loved Carlos, but now, she loved him even more.
She knew that Tess wasn't the flirtatious type. The girl danced for a living. That was all. She never seduced Carlos. So Debbie wouldn't harm her. She was only using the poor unfortunate girl to teach Carlos a lesson.
"Sleep with her!" Debbie demanded again.
"I won't!" Carlos declared.
"You have to!" Debbie was about to fail to maintain her charade.
"No!"
There were tears in her eyes. Happy tears. "Are you sure you're not going to sleep with her? This is a golden opportunity you might never have again."
"Even if it were the end of the world, even if there was a blade held at my throat, I would never cheat on you. You're the only woman that I'll ever love in this life, in the next life, and forever and ever."
Carlos' expression was the same as he had when he held the press conference to declare his love for Debbie to the world. Tears flowed down Debbie's cheeks.
She tossed the syringe into the bin and ran toward Carlos, throwing herself into his arms. "Honey, I love you so much," she sobbed into his shoulder.
Carlos was relieved when he saw her throw the syringe away. He spread his arms wide and caught her. "I love you too, babe. Don't cry," he said, holding her tightly to him and gently caressing her hair.
"I was only testing you. I had found a hair in the passenger seat of your car. Then you were watching those beautiful women dancing for you. I thought you were having an affair," Debbie explained in tears.
'A hair in the passenger seat?' Carlos thought for a moment, puzzled, and then he remembered something. 'It must have been from Frankie's girlfriend.'
He kissed Debbie's hair and said, "I would never allow another woman to sit in the passenger seat when I'm driving. That seat belongs to you only. Reeve organized those dancers. I didn't know anything about it."
Debbie nodded. "I believe you."
The farce was over. Carlos scooped Debbie up into his arms and carried her toward the door. When he passed Niles, he said coldly, "The woman on the bed is yours."
'Mine?' Niles shook his head. "No, I don't want her. I'm leaving too."
'I'm a decent man. I never fool around, ' he told himself.
The next day, Frankie and his girlfriend visited Debbie.
When she met Frankie's blonde-haired girlfriend, she realized whose hair it was in the passenger seat. Debbie felt terrible about doubting Carlos and wronging him. That evening she was really nice to him.
Afterward, Carlos had the fluid in the syringe analyzed. One day later, when the results had arrived, Dixon approached him stifling his laughter and said, "Mr. Huo, it was mineral water."
Niles had only gone to the hotel to give the syringe to Debbie and to have some fun as well.
Carlos then realized that Debbie and Niles had played him for a fool.
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