The president's seventh bride novel Chapter 52

Alicia arrived at her uncle's house, raised her hand, and knocked on the door. The door opened, and that was her aunt Lola standing in front of her. Thinking of what her uncle said during the day, she deliberately looked at her a few more times, and did find that she was not quite well.

"Are you all right?"

She asked softly, hoping her uncle is lying to her this time.

Lola shed tears before she spoke, kneeled down in front of her niece, sobbed and said: "Alicia, please save your uncle. This is the last time I beg you, really is the last time…"

Alicia's heart immediately fell into the bottom.

She looked at Ramon squatting at the corner with hands clutching his head. It seemed it was the end of the world for him. The house, which was not a big one, now was filled with sadness.

"Is it true, Lola? Do you have liver cancer?"

Ramon got up and handed her a pile of hospital examination reports. She looked at them one by one until the last one. Suddenly, she shouted hysterically: "Why? Why did you know to turn to me when you were in trouble before, but not this time? You can talk to me if you are short of money. Why did you choose to make a crime?"

Lola cried and said: "We are too embarrassed to bother you again, as we brought you a lot of troubles before. Your uncle wanted to go to you, but I stopped him. It is a terminal cancer. Who knows how much days do I have…"

"You stopped him, so now he goes to drug trafficking! And finally, it is me again to deal with it. If you had come to me at the beginning, things would not have become so complicated now!"

Alicia was so sad that her relatives have made her chaotic life even bitter.

"Alice, your aunt didn’t know the deal between me and Dillon. It was all my decision as I don't want to see her to die. Now I also make up my mind that it doesn't matter if you don't want to help me. I will not live alone if your aunt leaves me…"

"You shut up!"

Lola turned her head and angrily shouted at her husband, then she continued to plead with her niece: "Don't listen to your uncle's nonsense. You must save him. He is the only brother of your mon, the only family of you besides your father in the world. If he suffers, your mother will not be happy in the heaven."

Alicia fell into a painful struggle. Her heart was shaken as Lola was bitterly pleading: "Alicia, please…"

Ramon could not bear to see his wife crying sadly, jumped over and hugged her: "Lola, don't cry. It hurts your body. "

The couple hugged each other and cried. Alicia watched this confusingly, and gradually she envied a little bit. Although her aunt and uncle were bent solely on profit and they sure had little problems, they did truly love each other. And that emotion was rare and valuable, at least she and her mother have never had.

"Fine. Stop crying!"

She took out a bank card given by her mother-in-law from her bag and put it into her aunt's hand, "Take this, and make sure you get well."

"What about your uncle?"

Lola asked with tears in her eyes.

Alicia hesitated and answered reluctantly, "I won't leave him alone."

On the way back, the moon's shadow was sparse and the stars shone shallowly. Alicia walked alone leisurely, while the clear moonlight could not warm her cold heart.

She thought about her own messy life for a while and really did not know how to sort it out.

Passing a 24-hour department store, she went in and bought a few bottles of beer, planning to get drunk at home. This was not the behavior of a regular teacher; however, she was just a bad woman with a revenge mentality if abandoning the teacher identity.

It was 11 o'clock when Alicia got home, and she tiptoed upstairs. Carlos' room was dark, and she continued to walk forward as she did not want to wake him up. As she walked, a magnetic voice came into her ear: "Stop there."

The light was on suddenly. Carlos leaned on the bed lazily and asked her: "What time is it?"

She did not answer. His eyes shifted to the plastic bag she was carrying: "What is that?"

"Beer."

As soon as he heard it was alcohol, he lifted the covers and jumped out of bed. Alicia was startled, thinking he was coming to teach her a lesson, and instinctively took two steps back, while the plastic bag in her hand was snatched away by him.

"How did you know I wanted to have a drink?"

She stared in amazement, explaining, "They are not for you."

Carlos didn't think so and sat down on the sofa, patting the seat beside him, "It's okay. We can drink together."

He neatly opened a bottle, tilted his neck to gulp up. Alicia helplessly shook her head, and sat down beside him without consideration.

"Why do you want to have a drink?" She asked.

"Why do you want to have drink?" Carlos asked in return.

"I'm in a bad mood."

"I'm just the opposite."

She was stunned, "Don't tell me that the reason you're in a good mood is because I'm in a bad mood."

"Exactly. When you are in a bad mood, I suddenly feel in a good mood."

Alicia glared at him querulously: "I knew your words were unreliable. You said that you would treat me well, but only a few days, now you are targeting me again."

"I don't have the time to target you. I just know the reason why you are in a bad mood."

"You know it?"

Alicia doubted it.

"Isn't it for him? The man who made out with you that day in front of Ellie's house?"

……

Oh, come on. How could it be related to Noah again?

"Women usually want to have a drink when they are disappointed in love. Honestly, is it that guy dumped you?"

She laughed bitterly: "You wish. Unfortunately, it is not the case."

"Then what is it? You dumped him?"

"No more guessing. It has nothing to do with him."

Carlos shrugged: "Ok. Fine. I am not interested in relationships of yours."

Alicia completely believed this statement. He was not interested in her relationships, neither in anything about her.

"But, as long as we are married, don't go too far with other men. Don't let me see you having dinner with other men, even occasionally. I will not be rational then."

"What about you? Can you do the same?"

Carlos raised an eyebrow: "Up to now, which woman have you seen I am ambiguous with?"

He did behave quite well except for that time with Mia. He did not explain, but Alicia knew it was Mia who seduced him. She knew it better than anyone in what kind of person was Mia.

"Is Dulcie very good at playing?"

She asked an off-topic question without warning, and the beer in Carlos' mouth suddenly became bitter and astringent.

He pretended not to hear it, tilted his head, and drank the beer, feeling like to eat the bottle as well. Alicia looked at him, thinking this woman must be very important to him, otherwise he wouldn't have such a stony expression every time her name was mentioned, as if he was caught in a swamp of pain and couldn't get out of it.

"Can you tell me about the love story between you two? I'm really interested in this woman who made your life miserable, but not your other ex-wives."

"There's nothing to tell."

Carlos threw the empty bottle away with a snap, got up and said, "It's very late. Time for bed."

Every time the sensitive topic was mentioned, he deliberately avoided it. "We were not that close enough", Alicia thought.

The next day, Alicia got up late as she went to bed late and drank last night. When she left the room, she found someone got up even later than her. She walked over and pushed the person on the bed, "Hey, don't you work today?"

Carlos ignored her, and she continued to push him: "It's almost noon. Get up and go to work."

"You're a big man. You wouldn't be this disheveled just because of my words last night, right?"

Carlos finally couldn't stand it anymore and sat up in annoyance and asked, "Why don't you go to work?"

She replied woodenly, "I'm on summer vacation."

"So? Civil servants can have a rest, but not the tax-payers?"

"Not really."

She curled her lips and turned resentfully to go downstairs.

During lunch, Alice solemnly announced a decision she made after a night of in-depth thinking, "Mom, dad, I'm going to set out on a long journey."

"A long journey?"

The whole family was quite surprised, and naturally turned their look at Carlos, the possible reason. Meeting scrutinizing gazes, he said sourly: "What? It has nothing to do with me."

"Yes, it has nothing to do with him. A friend of mine from college is getting married and invites me to be her bridesmaid."

"Where? When will you be back?"

"T City. About two or three days."

"Alone? Do you need companions?"

"That's fine. I can do it alone."

After Alicia informed the whole family, she went upstairs and began to pack her luggage. Not quite a while, Carlos lazily came in.

"Having a wedding in such a hot day. How eager is your classmate to get married?"

She rolled her eyes: "Do you think everyone is you, getting married as often as eating meals? How can a person who have been married seven times understand the joy and happiness of getting married for the first time, and with the loved person?"

"Are you implying that I didn't let you have such a mood, so you want to compensate it from other person?"

"Yes. So what?"

"Nothing. But unfortunately, a bridesmaid is a bridesmaid after all, who cannot become the bride. And the groom's eyes will only stay on the bride."

"That's not necessarily true. Haven't you heard the saying? Happiness is contagious. When the people around you are happy, so do you. Likewise, if the people around you are unfortunate, and you will be unfortunate, as well. Therefore, having an unfortunate person like you around makes me feel unfortunate too, so now, I'm going to people who will make me feel happy. Goodbye."

Alicia took the 3:00 p.m. flight that day and flew to T City. However, to her surprise, when she arrived at the Lee family before dark, she was told that Felix had run away from home.

As soon as Dillon's wife saw her, she said anxiously, "This child must have gone to look for you. You have not come back to see him for a long time, and he has been talking about you."

Alicia was quite worried: "When did he disappear?"

Dillon puffed hard on his cigar: "This afternoon. I was careless. He asked me to take him to you this noon, and I refused thinking it was just a whim. I never thought he meant it."

"So what are you going to do now?"

Mrs. Li whimpered, "I was discussing with Dillon to look for him, then you are here." She turned at Alicia with a look of complaint: "Why didn't you come earlier? If you come a day or a half day earlier, Felix would not have run away from home."

Alicia lower her head and said apologetically, "I'm sorry. I didn't expect this to happen."

"You didn't expect this to happen? Did you expect that Felix will be sad when he couldn't wait for you to come? I believe you have studied a lot and there is no spare time to think of my Felix at all!"

Dillon impatiently reprimanded, "All right. It is not the time to argue about this now. Let's find the child."

"You guys stay at home. I'll go to find him myself."

"That's impossible! B City is too big. When do you think you will find him by yourself?"

"That's fine. I have a friend whose father is in the Ministry of Public Security. I can ask him for help."

Dillon agreed to her proposal after some considerations. Alicia hurriedly went to the airport and planned to fly back to B City at night. However, bad things came in succession. The heavy rain poured suddenly, and the last fight to B city was canceled due to the weather.