True Love Waits novel Chapter 1177

"Fine. Forget it!" The man called Ted, cast a sideways glance at the black Emperor car not too far away. He caught a glimpse of the man standing in front of them and a sudden chill went down his spine. Tiny beads of sweat breaking out of his hands and face indicated his earnest wish to retreat.

However, a tall, lanky figure from one of the men standing behind him persisted. He gave Ted a pat on the back and whispered, "We can't just let her go. If that woman calls the police, it's all over!"

Just as the four bandits were hesitating, about seven or eight cars pulled over right in front of them. In an instant, more than a dozen bodyguards, all dressed in black, burst out of the cars, guns fully locked and loaded.

The man in charge ran over to Matthew, while his subordinates followed and bowed his head before him. "Mr. Huo, I apologize to you on behalf of my men for being late."

Glancing at the four bandits, Matthew ordered in a cold voice, "These guys have made the big mistake of scaring my wife. I want you to get rid of them all!"

"Yes! Mr. Huo!"

Matthew then guided Erica, who kept looking back, into the Emperor car.

On the way, Erica repeated the same question a few times. "What are you going to do with them?"

Matthew didn't answer her at first. After his patience had run out, he finally answered, "That's none of my concern."

"What do you mean, it's none of your concern? You're the one who gave the order!"

He looked at her with indifference and said, "I'm not getting my hands dirty. What happens to them has nothing to do with me."

Erica sighed in defeat. It seemed pointless to go around in circles on the matter.

When they returned to the villa, Erica suddenly remembered what had happened in the bedroom just now. She blushed and clutched at the corners of her dress, seemingly ashamed. "I want to sleep in the dormitory tonight." She was quite shaken up by him. She was so out of it at the time that he almost succeeded in doing what he wanted to do.

"There's no need to avoid me. I'm going on a business trip tomorrow. I won't be back until next week. Go upstairs and get some sleep!" Matthew wanted to tell her about his trip, but he didn't have the chance to tell her as they had ended up getting into an argument.

"What?" 'Why is it so sudden?'

Ignoring her this time, Matthew turned around and went upstairs with an extremely cold attitude.

Just as Matthew had said, they slept as usual that night, and he disappeared the next morning.

Soon, it was time to hand in her coursework. Since Matthew didn't allow her to take pictures of him and Erica didn't have any other friends in Y City, she decided to ask Hyatt to be her model.

It took her just a few minutes to finish the photography side of things, but she spent a good few hours editing them on Photoshop.

Erica retouched the photos for three hours before sending them to her monitor's e-mail address with satisfaction.

In the afternoon class, the professor selected ten outstanding works and showed them on the big screen, two of which were the pictures of Hyatt taken by Erica.

However, the signature under the photos was not Erica's, but someone else's name.

Before the final analysis of the outstanding works, Professor Feng looked at more than one hundred students from the stage and said, "These pictures on the screen are excellent pieces of work, but before appreciating them, I have to criticize a few students among you. The first one is Tommy Wang. This student handed in a very perfunctory photo of character, and he didn't even know how to find the right angle."

With a single click, the professor showed Tommy Wang's work on the screen. His model was a male classmate and indeed, the picture showed no impressive techniques of photography at all.

After criticizing several students in succession, Professor Feng's eyes fell on Erica. "The last one is a student with the surname Li. For her assignment, this person submitted photos of the superstar, Aaron, conducting some kind of business. Not only has this student completely disregarded the standards of our esteemed establishment: her teachers and classmates, to be very honest, but she is also in violation of the law for using Aaron Gao's picture without his consent. Having considered the fact that this was her first mistake, I won't hold her legally accountable for her actions, but I hope that this student will respect this chance. Don't make such a mistake again in the future!"

The professor then opened a folder, containing high resolution photos of Aaron which was taken when he was advertising milk for a company.

The professor was a well-known photographer in Y City. He knew well about Erica's background, but as a teacher, he had to be responsible for her. Since he didn't want her to face any trouble, he deliberately kept her first name a secret, mentioning only her last.