True Love Waits novel Chapter 1295

Frightened, Erica quickly squatted down and turned off the cellphone screen light while she hid in the dark.

A couple of minutes later, when she was sure that Matthew was no longer moving, she carefully went down on her knees, crawling to his bedside again, and pressed his lipstick-stained thumb on a sheet of paper.

"Phew!" She successfully got his first fingerprint.

Approaching his face, she took a good look at him and noticed that his eyes were still shut and his breath was even. Fortunately, it didn't seem he was going to wake up anytime soon.

Then she got back to work on getting his fingertip on the second sheet of paper, the third... And finally the sixth! In the end, she got his fingerprint of every sheet.

By the time she put her lipstick away, Matthew's voice reached her ears. "Are you done?"

"Yes, I am," Erica answered absently at first, but then she widened her eyes in fear and fell on her ass.

The man lying in the bed opened his eyes slowly and met her gaze.

'Oh my God! I'm screwed!' she cried inwardly. Regardless of her things spread on the floor, Erica rushed to her husband and asked smilingly, "Why are you awake?"

'Wasn't he fast asleep? Boo...hoo...'

When he was about to sit up in the bed, Erica quickly reached out and pushed him back on the mattress. "Well, well, it's still early. You can sleep a little longer!"

Matthew stretched out his hand and turned on the bedside lamp. Looking at the guilty woman in front of him, he said, "I'm afraid that if I slept a little longer, you would sell me out."

"What? How is that possible? Why the hell would I want to do that to you?" Erica asked with a bright smile on her face. "Honey, you don't have to worry. I'm your dear wife. I would never hurt you!"

He nodded, trying to sit up again. But Erica stopped him immediately. "Wait a minute!"

Conceding, Matthew lay back calmly. "What were you doing in the middle of the night? Why didn't you go to bed? And what's this?" He showed her his thumb covered with lipstick.

"Well, I saw the lipstick on your thumb and was trying to wipe it for you," she explained.

"Huh!" Matthew suddenly grinned as he thanked her gently, "Thank you, honey. Thank you for all your hard work."

It must have been quite a challenge indeed for her to get up in the middle of the night to clean up the lipstick she had applied herself on his thumb.

"You're welcome. Go to sleep now!"

Tired of all that nonsense, Matthew finally sat up and saw some of her tools spread on the floor.

A cellphone, a few A4 sheets of paper, a lipstick...

Realizing that she was about to get exposed, Erica held his waist and blocked his sight with no hesitation. "Honey, just go to sleep, will you?"

"I will after you tell me what is going on!" He had briefly seen his fingerprint pressed on the bottom right corner of each piece of paper.

If someone told him at this moment that his wife had sold him, he would definitely believe it!

"Oh, I swear I never did anything that could harm you. But please don't ask me about this, okay?" With her arms around him, Erica behaved like a spoiled child trying to deceive him.

On those papers, there were all kinds of information that Matthew had entrusted her to sue Phoebe for him. She just couldn't let him see them!

Matthew pushed her away, intending to lean over and reach out for the papers on the floor. However, Erica was quicker to step in and pick the papers and her phone up before he could. Then she rushed into the walk-in closet with those things in her hands.

A loud sound echoed when she shut the door behind her. Soon after, the bedroom became quiet again.

Matthew stared at the lipstick she had left on the floor.

A few minutes later, he stood up and knocked on the door to the walk-in closet. "Come out!"

"Only if you promise me not ask any questions!"

"Okay." He nodded helplessly. "I promise."