Spoiled By The CEO: Why The Wife Is Kinda Sweet? novel Chapter 371

Archie had had the guest room specially prepared.

It wasn’t a particularly big place at a hundred or so square meters, but the décor was elaborate, and the point was, it was a love nest just for them.

From the clear bathroom glass to the rose petals and candles visible everywhere, everything screamed romance.

Archie cut up a plate of steak and passed it to her, then took her own plate and started cutting it up too.

Because the two had similar tastes, they’d ordered the same meal. So Natalia didn’t mind. She speared a piece with her fork and dug in.

“What’s with the sudden romantic urge to come here today, Archie?”

The man looked up from his steak.

“You don’t know?”

Natalia blinked. “What don’t I know?”

The man’s eyes showed a resigned bit of exasperation.

Natalia was a little confused. Then he put down his knife and fork and took out a red gift box from under a nearby desk.

“Happy anniversary, honey!”

Natalia froze rooted to the spot.

A-anniversary?

At that word, she almost choked on her steak and coughed several times before widening her eyes in disbelief at Archie.

“You mean today is our one-year’s wedding anniversary?”

Archie’s expression went a bit stiff.

He fell silent for a few seconds, then smiled and said, “What do you think?”

“…”

She finally reacted.

No wonder the man had acted so strange today!

Calling her from the set to be with him no less, then coming out to have fun and having her change.

Reserving such a romantic couple’s room, and having wine…

It was their anniversary!

Natalia felt horrible.

Her memory wasn’t bad. Pregnancy was supposed to dull one’s wits, but she hadn’t even gotten pregnant yet, so how was her memory like this?

She couldn’t even remember their anniversary.

Natalia laughed awkwardly. “That’s… I’m sorry… I-I didn’t know today was… I forgot to get a present, but I can give you something tomorrow!”

Even she felt ashamed as she finished!

It was their anniversary! The anniversary was for the day; it didn’t count after one day had passed, did it?

She grumbled at a certain someone internally.

He knew but didn’t remind her and got her this embarrassed now, really, this man…

Archie’s lips twitched. “It’s fine. Take a look and see if you like it.”

Natalia looked at the red gift box and swallowed.

Then she looked back at Archie. His smile might have been feigned, but he wasn’t really angry. She reached out and opened the box carefully.

The red box was lined with a black brocade, over which lay a jade bracelet.

Natalia’s eyes gleamed.

“Wow, that’s such a pretty bracelet!”

Archie looked at her deeply. “Do you like it?”

“I like it!”

Emperor jade was rare enough on its own, but looking at the color of this bracelet, it was an even more thorough green than what she’d seen on the auction before.

Natalia was of the cool, elegant type, and regular jewelry didn’t bring out her aura.

But with jade, other girls might have looked too aged in them, while on her, it looked sophisticated and pleasing.

So Natalia didn’t like gold or diamonds, only jade.

Seeing that she liked it, Archie showed a satisfied expression.

“It’s good that you like it, then. Here, I’ll put it on for you.”

Natalia stretched out her hand, and Archie clasped the bracelet on her wrist.

The bracelet was so green it was slick, and matched with her snowy white arm, it was breathtakingly beautiful.

With an arm like that in his hand, Archie looked at the scene and his heart throbbed, finding it rarely difficult to hold himself back.

“Natalia.”

“Hmm?”

Natalia was still studying the bracelet on her wrist, so while her mouth responded, her eyes weren’t on him.

Archie murmured, “You’ve got your present, but what about mine?”

Natalia jolted.

She lifted her head and looked up at the man, smiling awkwardly.

“That’s… I did just say that I forgot.”

“Oh, that means I don’t get anything tonight.”

The man spoke, and took his hand back, not hiding even a bit of his dejection on his face.

Natalia couldn’t just stand by and watch. The man was handsome to begin with, and she was used to seeing him calm and collected, or chatting animatedly, or deep in thought, or cool and serious.

She’d never seen him sad and dejected.

Unable to take it, Natalia blabbered, “I promise, I’ll find a way tomorrow to make it up to you, so don’t be mad, okay?”

Archie tried to smile at her.

“I’m not mad.”

“…”

“I’m just a bit hurt. It’s fine, go eat. No need to bother with me.”

He went back to cutting up his steak.

Natalia’s heart was about to break, so she couldn’t bother with anything else as she got up and ran over, hugging him from behind.

“I’m sorry, honey, I was wrong. I promise I won’t forget next time, really. Forgive me this time, won’t you?”

Natalia was hugging him from behind and didn’t see the smile that flashed across the man’s lips.

Archie continued to act dejected as he said, “Oh, so we can let this time go?”

Natalia was stumped.

How was she supposed to comfort him like this, then?

She thought about it, patted herself down, and felt something, her eyes lighting up.

“Actually, it’s not that I didn’t prepare anything today, but I’m afraid you wouldn’t like it, so I didn’t take it out.”

Archie raised an eyebrow. “What is it?”

Natalia hurriedly loosened her grip and took out a little hand bauble made from red string.

Archie was speechless.

That was such a plain bauble that it… didn’t even seem like a gift.

It was just a bunch of red string stitched into a circle, with a single chain of lucky golden beads hanging from it.

Archie almost threw the thing out the window.

He stared at Natalia, his smile growing sinister, “This is the anniversary gift you prepared for me?”

Natalia smiled pleasingly and looked at him, expectant. “Yes, I stitched it myself. See where I put a pattern there? I put a lot of effort in, right?”

The man’s grin grew even more sinister.