A Vengeful Ex-Wife
Chapter 389 To Be Punished

After ending the call, James realized that Maria had many bags of the same style, but different colors.

He sent photos of her bags and a lipstick set to Maria on WeChat. "Honey, leave your bags aside, I could buy fruits for a whole month with the price of this set of lipsticks alone!"

Maria's reply came quickly. "Come on! The lipstick set only cost a little more than 10 thousand, while you have to spend thousands of dollars on your fruits each time! And you buy fruits more than a dozen times per month!"

"Fine. What about your bags?"

Her reply was slow and measured this time, obviously because of a guilty conscience.

After some thought, she finally decided to stir up trouble out of nothing. "Do you hate me now?"

"No. I just want to protest so that you can treat me better." In other words, he did not think she was doing anything wrong.

"Your complaints are pointless. Remember that you were the one who taught me to do this in the first place." She was only following James' order when she first bought bags of the same style, but various colors. Back then, she couldn't decide which color to buy. When she asked for his opinion, he simply told her to buy all of them.

Pulling at the busily crawling Bob, James replied to Maria's message. "You are the boss."

A smug smile spread on Maria's as she got out of the car and walked into the fruit store.

After purchasing a bag of fruits worth several thousands of dollars for James, Maria went back to the villa.

Bob was playing with toys on the living room carpet. Somewhere close to his side, James sat watching the child.

Maria came in with the fruits. "Bob, Mommy is back!"

When he heard her voice, Bob immediately threw away the toys and crawled to Maria.

Still eyeing the baby attentively, James followed behind him.

After placing the fruits on the kitchen counter, Maria scooped up the little cutie off the floor and kissed him over and over. The child shrieked and giggled in delight.

James went to wash the fruits. Maria stood behind him, their son in her arms. "Wash cherries for me first.

Obediently, he took out some cherries from a box, washed them, and placed one of them in Maria's mouth. She smiled her thanks as she chewed on the succulent fruit. Bob, who had just begun to have supplementary food, kept staring at her mouth and salivating.

Amused by his expression, Maria asked James to cut a cherry open and put a piece in front of his lips.

There were some things that people just knew how to do without being taught. When the cherry touched Bob's lips, he immediately opened his mouth and taste the fruit.

She couldn't have him eating the fruit, so Maria grasped the cherry tightly and only allowed the boy a little taste.

It was his first time to eat something other than formula milk, fish soup, or rice soup. Not used to the taste, Bob had a strange expression on his face, and his mouth chirped like a bird a few times. It was unbearably cute.

James also sliced an orange and let Bob taste it. Babies usually have no self-control when they taste something delicious.

While James fed Bob a small slice of orange, Maria took out her phone and busily snapped photos to chronicle their son's progress.

That night, after the family had taken their baths, Bob didn't go to sleep after finishing his milk. Instead, he lay on the bed and babbled to James in his cute baby language.

The baby kept chewing on his own little foot even after James stopped him from doing so. His father kept pulling his foot away, but the little boy thought that it was just a game and kept laughing.

Not only that, he even placed his little foot on his father's mouth as they lay side by side.

The baby's action caught James off-guard. Chancing upon this scene, Maria chuckled and said, "Pure natural feet taste good, right?"

Glaring at the baby, he stood up and wiped his mouth with a piece of tissue. "He deserves being beaten," he threatened. Bob was becoming more and more naughty these days that James started thinking that the child would be needing some form of discipline in the near future.

Maria snorted and ignored him.

James lay down on the bed again. After a while, a fair -skinned little foot stretched out toward him once again.

He stared at the baby, bemused. What was wrong with Bob? He not only chewed on his foot, he was also making his father do the same.

As if aware of his stare, Bob kept smiling cutely up at his father. Captivated by the smile, James pouted helplessly at him.

Maria grabbed Bob's foot and kissed it. "Son, your father doesn't like jokes. We won't play with him, okay?"

"Are you trying to isolate me?" James asked in mock outrage.

Maria tidied up the baby's diaper, swept him up in her arms, and dangled his tiny foot near James' mouth. "How dare you dislike my son's foot? Here, eat it!"

The little foot stepped on the man's mouth.

James couldn't do anything. The kid wasn't hurting him, but what he was doing was insulting!

Maria was amused. At the sight of her happy grin, James restrained the urge to punish his son and allowed them to bully him.

After Bob fell asleep, James pressed Maria's body under him into the mattress and whispered, "Are you happy now?"

"Yeah."

"Then it's my turn. I want to be happy, too." Before she could reply, James captured her red lips with his own.

After that, Maria couldn't say anything else.

The night grew deeper, and the two of them didn't part until James achieved what he wanted.

When Rosa checked her hospital bill after being discharged, she gasped at the final amount. Her stay cost her more than 130 thousand dollars. The doctor told her that if she had come to the hospital right afte the fish bone had stuck in her throat, she would only have to pay the registration fee to solve the problem.

Rosa didn't know what to say. As it turned out, common sense was an expensive commodity.

Ten days later, Maria met Rosa again in a meeting of the H Brocade project. At the parking earlier, Rosa gave her a baleful glare when she saw the other woman.

Maria shrugged. She couldn't care less about the daggers Rosa's eyes were throwing her way. After all, she would not lose anything because of that.

This meeting was confidential. Core figures of the major companies were in attendance, and all of their mobile phones were confiscated temporarily before the start.

As she was passing by the door of the meeting room, Maria's eyes landed on someone. Immediately, she smilingly made her way over to where the man was and nodded pleasantly toward him.

Patrick watched the woman approach him and returned her greeting. Everyone in HM Group shared the opinion that Maria Song was an overbearing, unreasonable woman. Today, when he saw her personally, that opinion was somehow dispelled. She seemed like a fine woman.

At that moment, he was instantly captivated by her, and his heart filled with joy inside him.

James arrived at the meeting to see Maria smiling at a man. He leveled a cold glance at Patrick, who looked at her with an enraptured gaze.

Patrick felt a chill in the air and noticed James' stare. Wiping the smile from his face, he greeted the newcomer. "Mr. Xi."

Belatedly, he remembered hearing that James and Maria were a couple. He wondered if James would make things difficult for him.

As it turned out, he was just overthinking things.

In the middle of the meeting, Rosa found an opportunity to mock DS Group, which was a small company compared to the other participants. With a smug little smile, she told Maria that she was not qualified to participate in the bidding with the rest of the companies.

Maria had already expected that Rosa would target at her, so she answered carefully, "It doesn't matter whether our company is big or small. The key point is that with our current hardware equipment, we are fully capable of running this project. That's enough."