Spoil Me More, Dear Huaband

“What did you what did you say?” David Gate stammered in anger.

Tess Baker took a few steps back so David Gate wouldn’t go crazy and push her like he did that time at the bar, “It’s ironic that you can’t earn a penny, so you learn to throw it around in a big way. I don’t have a lot of money on me, but I built my next company on my own, and at the very least, in my philosophy, I’m rich and you’re just a …”

She lengthened her voice and paused before chuckling, “Assholes.”

David Gate would be nothing if not for his good family background.

“Who are you, a vixen, to talk about me like that? With you, fighting for the next company? Who knows how many people you slept with to get this company?” David Gate’s face went red and white, white and green, breathing heavily.© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

Tess Baker had a mocking face, “A woman who fights for her career on her own is sleeping out? Miss Gu’s three views are really breathtaking!”

This was a hospital room, and she didn’t want to get into a pointless verbal fight with David Gate, but she couldn’t take David Gate’s repeated insults.

David Gate blushed and tried to say more, Tess Baker frowned before she could say anything, “You go on cursing and I’ll go, or you go and I’ll stay, take your pick.”

She made a deal with Bowen Carter that she could only stay at the hospital for two hours and didn’t want to argue with David Gate for over an hour.

David Gate grunted heavily in exasperation and was dragged out by Puppy White with a scowl on his face. The moment the door closed, the ward was finally clear.

Tess Baker was so hungry that she sent the nurse to the hospital cafeteria to get a few dishes and millet porridge to eat while talking to the unconscious Dennis Gate.

But to her disappointment, his eyelashes didn’t even move.

Almost two hours in, the driver called, urging her to get down. She didn’t want to leave, but was afraid the driver would tell Bowen Carter and she wouldn’t even be able to get out the door.

Tess Baker called Puppy White and asked her to come over. Puppy White was staying in a nearby ward and arrived within three minutes or so of receiving the call, in somewhat worse spirits than when she left the ward.

“I’m off, I’ll come back tomorrow.” Tess Baker grabbed her things and got ready to head out the door.

Puppy White frowned, full of indignation, “Dennis is so heartfelt to you, you can’t even stay here with him for a little longer?!”

“Bye.” Tess Baker wasn’t going to explain, and there wasn’t much to explain. She didn’t even look at Puppy White for a second as she headed for the door.

Puppy White’s voice with a sobbing and tired voice sounded behind him, “Dennis still doesn’t know if he can wake up, and he is thinking about you in his heart, and my family is forcing me to cancel the marriage contract with Dennis, so what do you think … I should do?”

There was a faint sound of sobbing as the words fell.

Tess Baker’s grip on the doorknob paused for a moment. No wonder Puppy White’s spirits were so low. Her family had pressured her again in the past two hours, right?

“I’m not you and I don’t know what you should do.” Tess Baker simply said and opened the door to go out. How could she have the heart to advise others when she couldn’t sort out her own affairs?

She rode the elevator downstairs, and as soon as she exited the doors she was met by the driver, who was waiting at the elevator door with an impatient look on his face.

“Young Granny.” The driver wiped a handful of sweat from his head, Master Carter had explained that the time spent in the hospital should never exceed two hours. Young granny answered the phone for more than twenty minutes and didn’t come down, it really scared him to death, he was afraid that she would stay here and not leave!

“Sorry about the wait, huh?” Tess Baker never liked people who were late, but she was late herself.

“You don’t have to apologize to me, let’s hurry, Master Carter … Master Carter wants me to meet him in half an hour.” The driver looked at the time in a fiery rage, Master Carter had allotted him all the time he needed to spend on the road, there wasn’t much time left.

It was at least forty minutes from the hospital to Beauty Garden, and Tess Baker couldn’t bear the thought of the driver getting yelled at for her, “I’ll explain to Bowen Carter if I’m late, don’t you worry.”

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It was 10:30 p. m. when the two men returned to Beauty Garden, where Bowen Carter sat expressionless in the lobby and swept over coldly when he heard movement at the door.

The driver was looked at by this glance to the legs, sad face drooping head, on the hope that Tess Baker can help him explain a couple of words.

“I spoke to Puppy White more at the hospital and got delayed a bit before he came back late, I don’t blame him.” Tess Baker promised the driver she’d help him explain, and she did.

“Next time, you’ll never get to visit Dennis Gate in the hospital.” Bowen Carter grimly stood up and headed upstairs, and after going up two steps, turned, and called out to her in displeasure, “Keep up!”

“… Okay.” Tess Baker wrinkled her nose at the thought of sleeping with him at night and agreed in a small voice before following him.

The driver breathed a sigh of relief and rushed out of the hall so Master Carter wouldn’t settle his score.

Tess Baker followed Bowen Carter to his room, her whole body cells tensing together and her fingers shrinking slightly the moment he closed the door.

She didn’t know when she’d felt dirty about men who’d had a lot of women, maybe when she’d learned about the ways in which AIDS was transmitted, or when she’d seen two men and women who didn’t know each other kissing passionately at a cocktail party because they’d lost a game.

But no matter when it started, it was undeniable that she rejected Bowen Carter, who was flirting with other women, and she couldn’t stop her stomach from churning at the thought of doing something that intimate with him in a few moments.

“Go take a shower.” Bowen Carter commanded in a cold, hard voice as he sat on the bed.

Tess Baker’s throat tightened with the humiliating feeling of being a chaperone, she tried to suppress the negative emotions that were churning and nodded, “I’ll go down and get my pajamas first.”

All her things are in the maid’s room with Fang Fang.

“No.” Bowen Carter stood up, pulled a maternity purple silk nightgown out of the closet, tossed it to her, and sat back down on the bed with a strained face.

Tess Baker glanced at the pajamas, there was no hangtag, someone should have worn them, most likely Wendy Summer. She clutched the garment, wanting to say no, but afraid that if she annoyed him, he’d stop her from going to the hospital. After much hesitation, she frowned and took the pajamas and walked in.

It was still the same bathroom as before, but it wasn’t the same as before. Tess Baker looked at the pairs of towels, toothbrush cups, washcloths, and men’s and women’s skincare products that lay beside the sink, and the oppressive feeling grew in her chest.

Bowen Carter had had all this stuff prepared during the few days Wendy Summer had stayed here, hadn’t he? It couldn’t have been prepared just for her-after all, it had only been a few hours since he’d forced her to sleep with him, so how could he have rearranged the bathroom in such a short time?

Tess Baker forced herself to avert her eyes, stripped off her clothes and took a shower, and reluctantly put on those purple pajamas, not using a single thing on the sink.

Her hair was still dripping, and she had the presence of mind to dawdle, so she rubbed her hair with the washcloth one at a time, listening quietly for movement outside, but she could hear nothing.