True Love Waits novel Chapter 1124

When Reese realized that Matthew was staring at her, she stuttered, "H-here's the thing... Mr. Huo, people say you didn't come with Erica to visit her parents after your wedding. But Erica insisted you did. So we made a bet."

"How much did she bet?" Matthew asked.

"A hundred thousand dollars," replied Reese in a timid voice.

"No, it was five hundred grand!" Erica retorted loudly. Now that Matthew was here, she could make Reese pay. "If she lost, she'd only pay a hundred grand. She pushed me into putting up five hundred grand if I lost. Kinda unfair, don't you think?"

Matthew glanced at his wife and said, "Aren't you Miss Troublemaker? I didn't know you were that easy to bully."

Erica gave him an embarrassed smile. How could she be forced into that so easily? She wasn't normally that simple to push around. On impulse, she had agreed to Reese's terms without a second thought.

"You always harass my wife like this?" he asked. He didn't look at Reese this time.

Reese and Erica were the closest to Matthew's car. Even Rhea stood a fair distance away. So Reese knew he was talking to her.

She was taken aback by his question. "H-harass her? I didn't do anything like that, Mr. Huo. Erica agreed to the bet herself."

"You lost the bet. And it isn't really fair that she bet five hundred grand and you only have to pay a hundred grand. Sounds to me like you're bullying my wife," Matthew said calmly.

Reese gasped. She was no fool and she understood exactly what Matthew meant. "Mr. Huo, go easy on me. I'm just a college student. I don't have that much money..."

Erica rolled her eyes and exposed her lies. "She has the money. She has tons of boyfriends. She can get the money from them."

"Erica, I swear I don't have the money. Mr. Huo, please, I'm begging you..." Reese was about to cry.

Matthew seemed bored. He looked at his wristwatch to check the time and said to the driver calmly, "Call Principal Zheng and ask him to deal with it."

"Yes, Mr. Huo." The driver took out his phone and started dialing.

Principal Zheng was one of the principals of A Country Film Academy, and the most powerful one.

It was not easy for Reese to get enrolled in college. They hadn't admitted her, initially. But money talks—her parents paid a lot of money to get her in. It was more than just her studies that would be ruined if she got kicked out; it was her whole life. "No! I-I'll pay!"

With trembling hands, Reese fished out her phone again and opened the payment app. There was a little more than three hundred thousand dollars in it. She cried out loud and said, "There's only 320, 000 dollars in there. Give me two days to get the money, okay?"

Matthew's face remained cold. He played with the diamond ring on his ring finger and said in a low voice, "Not enough money? Fine. Apologize to my wife and promise you'll never bug her again. Even better—don't talk to her, either. Then we can overlook how much you owe."

'Apologize?' This was truly humbling for Reese. She was usually arrogant and aggressive. She didn't take any crap and bullied her classmates, just like Erica did. Both of them were a matched pair. Only this time, Erica had Matthew. It was not easy for Reese to apologize to her arch enemy.

But it was either that, or pony up five hundred thousand dollars. If she refused to swallow her pride, she'd be a fool. Reese wiped her tears hastily and looked at Erica, who was staring at Matthew all this time. "I'm sorry, Erica. It's my fault this time. I promise I'll never talk to you again, or bully you. Please forgive me, will you?"

The last few words brought Erica back to reality. She asked, "What? What did you just say?" She was so immersed in the fact that Matthew stuck up for her that she didn't notice what Reese had said.

Reese thought Erica heard everything but pretended that she didn't. She was angry, but she wouldn't do anything around Matthew. She took a deep breath and apologized to Erica again.