Mr Carlos Huo, She's Your Wife novel Chapter 207

"I hear you. Goodbye, Aunt Miranda." After bidding farewell to Miranda, Debbie began to think about her parting words. 'Carlos did a good job? They deserved it? Did she mean what she said? Is Miranda really Lewis' mother?' Watching Miranda's receding figure, Debbie couldn't fend off the barrage of doubts from intruding on her thoughts.

That night, Carlos picked up Megan from the Huo family's house and drove her to the villa. Megan was going to spend the night with them. Since they were all flying back to Y City tomorrow, it would be more convenient to have her there.

When Megan stepped into the villa and spotted Debbie, she ran briskly and gleefully toward her. With an innocent look on her face, she said, "Aunt Debbie. Guess what I bought you?"

Debbie smiled sarcastically as she stared at her innocent look. It was exactly the same look as when she met Megan for the first time. Miranda's words came unbidden to her mind—"And be careful of Megan. She's a great actress." And wasn't that the truth? Megan had managed to hoodwink both Carlos and her, intending to steal Carlos away from her. Back then, her fake innocent expression blinded Debbie's eyes, making her believe that Megan was a pure, sweet girl. It turned out that she was just a hypocritical and cunning woman.

Oblivious to Debbie's indifferent attitude, Megan lifted the shopping bag with an international brand logo printed on it. In a more excited voice, she revealed the answer. "Lipsticks! The latest ones! Uncle Carlos and I picked out the colors for you. Come on. Open it and take a look."

'Uncle Carlos and I...' Debbie repeated this sentence in her mind. 'Interesting that you'd bring Carlos into it. You always follow him around like a lost puppy dog, ' she thought angrily.

She shifted her gaze past Megan to the man walking towards them. 'Wasn't Carlos busy wrapping up his work here before leaving New York? How could he spare any time to go shopping with Megan?' she wondered.

Devoid of emotion, Debbie took the shopping bag from Megan and said flatly, "Thanks." Then, while Carlos and Megan watched, she opened the exquisite, high-class packing box.

There were three shades of lipstick inside the box. When she unscrewed the lid of the first one and saw the color, she was overwhelmed by an urge to punch the pair.

She couldn't believe her eyes. The first one was Death Barbie Pink!

Her lips twitched, totally at a loss for words. Every netizen knew about that shade, and many jokes were told about it. It was supposed to be a hue similar to a Barbie doll's lips. But this shade was completely unsuitable for most Chinese women. All it did was make their faces seem darker and dirtier. Some actresses tried it, but they also failed to pull it off and were roundly mocked. Thus, it came to be known as 'Death Barbie Pink.' And the second tube of lipstick was blue.

This was getting bad! She had lost all her strength to lay a finger on the third lipstick. Instead, she glared at Carlos. The man was obviously confused by her expression.

Finally, she mustered the courage to unscrew the lid of the third lipstick. Thank God! This one was at least normal. It was orange.

She asked Carlos, "How much did this set you back?"

Her question embarrassed Megan and she apologized, "I'm sorry, Aunt Debbie. You know, I can't get a job yet..."

Debbie paid no attention to her, but kept her eyes on Carlos. Confused, he asked, "What's wrong?"

"How much did they cost?" She insisted on an answer.

"Eighty thousand, give or take," Carlos replied honestly.

His reply sent a chill down her spine. Her eyes popped out in shock. "Dollars? Eighty thousand dollars for three lipsticks?!" she confirmed again.

Perplexed, Megan replied, "Yeah. Was that too much? But Aunt Debbie, the manager told us that it was a limited edition. There are only two sets of these in the entire world. Now you have one in your hands! Cool, right?"

Bang! Debbie slammed the box heavily on the table and glared at the fake innocent girl. "Cool? No, more like a fool. Of course they had only made two sets of these particular shades. If they made hundreds of thousands of these lipstick colors, the company would've already gone bankrupt! And you think eighty thousand dollars isn't expensive? It's a sky-high price for lipstick. Much higher than market price. You think money grows on trees or something? How about you go and earn eighty thousand dollars for me now? Huh? And, you take it for granted to waste my husband's money. Take it back to wherever you got this!" she shouted out a barrage of words in one breath.

Hearing Debbie's rant, Megan was startled and staggered backward. Tears instantly sprang to her eyes and streamed down her face. Yes, she shed crocodile tears again.

On the other hand, Carlos still couldn't make sense of the situation and had no idea why Debbie got pissed. As a straight man and a workaholic, he didn't understand colors of lipstick. "Why get mad? You don't like them? I think pink fits you." He remembered she looked quite lovely in a pink dress last time he saw her wear it.

As for the blue color, he remembered Debbie had worn a blue down jacket once. She looked good in it too.

Then for the orange color, she had two orange pajamas and they both were quite flattering.

Debbie tried her hardest to hold back her anger. "Yeah, pink is a nice color. But Carlos, not everything in pink is good and not everyone looks good with pink lipstick. And blue, yeah, you may have seen some people put on blue lipstick, right? But they are mostly models who need special make-up for a fashion show. You want me to be a model? Okay, the orange lipstick is a normal shade, but since I don't like the other two, you should go and return the whole box," she said, trying to make her voice sound calm. Yet again, Megan's nonstop crying got on her nerves. She turned to Megan and rebuked, "Megan, dear spoiled lady, why are you crying? Are you hurt? I can give you a reason to cry... Don't bother buying me any gifts from now on. And would you please kindly stop wasting my husband's money? I'd really appreciate it!"