Mr Carlos Huo, She's Your Wife novel Chapter 1020

"Yes," Evelyn said. There was no point in denying. It didn't matter whether she was really a jinx or not; it was undeniably true that Richard Qi had died because of her.

Sheffield's anger grew. "Evelyn, you are a stickler for principles. Why don't you have any limits for your guilt? How can you let that asshole humiliate you like that? You may be able to tolerate it, but I can't! Every time I see him, I'll beat him down. I meant what I said earlier."

With that, he turned around and walked away from her.

Evelyn caught up to him, grabbed his hand and said quickly, "Sheffield! If humiliating me can make the Qi family a bit happier, I will at least feel less guilty. And Roscoe just hurled some verbal abuses. He can't really hurt me." Roscoe meant little to her. She didn't care about what he said.

"Are you saying that I was in the wrong here?" Sheffield asked, looking her in the eye.

Evelyn shook her head. She could understand his anger. "I know you did that for me, so..."

"So? So you want to bear all the consequences yourself?" he asked, completing the sentence for her.

Evelyn fell silent. 'How did he know what I was thinking?'

Without warning, Sheffield pulled her into his arms and held her so tight that she could hardly breathe.

He whispered in her ear, "Evelyn, I can deal with the Qi family myself, even without Theo Group backing me up. Let me tell you something. People around me think highly of me because I'm the CEO, but to me, that company is nothing but a burden. Theo Group will only hold me back instead of giving me any sort of support, and I don't care. I can fight against the Qi family myself. If you don't believe me, just wait and see."

Evelyn gasped for air in his arms. What he was claiming shocked her even more. She looked up blankly at his face. The expressions on his face changed as he spoke—he was confident at first, then his eyes clouded with anger. And amidst all that was a hint of helplessness.

Sheffield lowered his head to look at the expressionless woman. He loosened his embrace and said, "Do you still not believe in me?"

She nodded her head and wrapped her arms around his waist. "I believe you." She did believe in him. He could do anything.

His anger finally disappeared when he heard her words. He bowed his head and kissed her red lips.

By the time Evelyn got back to the manor, Gwyn was already asleep in Carlos and Debbie's bedroom. Carlos was working in his study.

Hearing her footsteps, he opened the door to the study and called, "Evelyn, come here."

Evelyn and Debbie looked at each other. She told her mother, "I'll be right back."

"Go ahead. I'll watch Gwyn," Debbie nodded.

"Thanks."

In the study

Evelyn sat opposite Carlos. He asked, "You know why I asked you to come?"

"Yes, more or less." She guessed that he had heard about what had happened.

Carlos expressed his stand. "Leave this matter alone. This was Sheffield's mistake. He should solve it himself."

"No, Dad. I can't do that. He fought Roscoe for me. And now, Sexton is going to sue him. How can I just sit by and watch?" Evelyn couldn't stay out of it even if it was someone else who had hit Roscoe for her sake. But this was Sheffield.

Carlos sighed. "What do you want to do?"

She thought for a while and said, "Ask Uncle Xavier to help him."

"Xavier only takes major commercial cases now. He won't get himself involved in such a trifling case like this."

Evelyn gaped at her father's childish behavior. She knew that he was deliberately making things hard for Sheffield and her.