The Life of A Billionaire’s Wife
Chapter 78

Chapter 78 Drunken Behavior

“You're just replaceing all sorts of excuses!”

Just then, Veronica rolled her eyes at Matthew and she felt that he wasbeing utterly unreasonable. She got the feeling that only his limbs hadevolved since the Stone Age, but his brain was still stuck in theprehistoric age. In short, he was an utter moron.

However, Veronica didn’t want to continue arguing, so she leanedagainst the window and remained silent as she closed her eyes.

At that point, the car descended into silence.

Finally, they arrived at the underground parking site of the TwilightClub. The two of them subsequently got out of the car and walked intothe elevator, one after the other.

Thomas handed over the keys to Matthew before driving his own carback home. The former adamantly refused to get involved in thematters of the bickering couple.

In the confined space of the elevator, Veronica tried her hardest tosqueeze herself into a corner to maintain as much distance fromMatthew as she could. Every move she made clearly indicated herloathing for him.

“Why are you standing so far apart from me?”

Meanwhile, Matthew, who was standing ramrod straight, glanced at herwith a frown and there was a significantly displeased look on hishandsome face.

“I'm keeping my distance because I need to stay away from people likeyou. Idiotic behavior can be contagious,” Veronica casually commentedas she lifted her brows.

Matthew's expression instantly darkened the moment he heard that.Just then, he reached out and pulled her toward him. Then, he held hercaptive in his arms as he growled, “Why don’t you try repeating thatagain?”

Veronica struggled to get out of his embrace but despite her struggles,she couldn't seem to extricate herself from his tight hold.

In the end, after realizing that her efforts were futile, she decided not tostruggle unnecessarily.

And so, she looked up and glared at him. “I said I need to stay awayfrom people like you.”

“What about your next sentence?”

“Idiotic behavior can be contagious.”

“Do you have a death wish?”

He harshly pinched her on the cheeks. Her flawless, porcelain-like skininstantly bulged up, and she looked quite comical and cute just then.“You're just making assumptions that I'm talking about you. Is that myfault? Besides, did I even mention your name?”

Veronica's pretty-looking brows were tightly furrowed and she reachedout to swat the back of Matthew's hands. “Let go of me. Don't youknow that it's inappropriate to touch the opposite gender?”

“We've been in the same bed, so don't you think that it's too late for allthese?”

Matthew curled his well-defined lips into a smile and there was a hint ofplayfulness in his voice. Even his eyes were full of desire.

The look in his gaze resulted in a shiver down Veronica's spine and shegulped instinctively. “I'm warning you, Matthew Kings! If you dare touchme again, I swear I won't forgive you ever again in this lifetime!”Veronica meant all of her words.

Meanwhile, Matthew scrutinized her for a moment before coldlyexclaiming, “You look exactly like Tiffany, so where did you get theconfidence to actually think that I would want to touch you?” Hisunderlying meaning was that he would rather touch Tiffany than her.Veronica's heart was finally at ease the moment she heard that.

Ding!

Meanwhile, they arrived at the ground floor and the doors to theelevator slid open

And so, Matthew relinquished his hold on her. Instantly, Veronicaturned around to walk out of the elevator and headed toward the livingroom.

She stood in the living room and turned to him. “You can sleep in themaster bedroom and I'll take the guest room. There's no need for anyinteraction between us.”

At that point, Matthew finally saw the fear on Veronica's face and sheresembled a deer caught in headlights. Her expression triggered a waveof sympathy in him.

“Alright.” He affirmed and turned around to walk into the masterbedroom before shutting the door behind him.

As soon as Veronica saw Matthew walk into the room, she finally took aseat on the couch, her expression weary. Just then, she switched on thetelevision to watch a drama.

Ever since Elizabeth had taken Veronica as her god granddaughter,Matthew no longer touched her. It was quite likely that he had somereservations now that they were supposedly siblings by name.Furthermore, Elizabeth had warned him repeatedly, so he should bequite wary of touching her.

As soon as Veronica realized this, she finally felt at ease.

She sat there watching the drama. However, she found that it was quiteboring, so she went to the bar and took out a bottle of red wine.Subsequently, she took out a wine glass and walked toward the couchas she took a sip of wine. She relaxed on the couch and continued towatch the drama

The time ticked by, and it soon went from 8 PM to 12 AM.

At one point, Matthew walked out of the master bedroom and wentinto the study room. After that, he didn't step foot out of the room.Veronica continued to watch television for some time but she found itquite boring so she went into the guest room.

Just as she was about to take a shower, she suddenly realized that shedidn't have any clothes to change into. However, she opened thecupboard in the room to replace that it was actually filled to the brim withautumn wear.

She flipped through the labels on the clothes and noticed that it was allin her size. Is this for me?

Nonetheless, she didn't think too much about it and went into thebathroom to take a shower. After her shower, she put on a pair ofpajamas and lay down on the bed as she scrolled through her phone.She tossed and turned and 2 AM soon rolled by, but she couldn't sleepat all.

In the end, she got out of bed in the middle of the night, intending togo to Matthew's study room to use his computer to replace out someinformation.

However, as soon as Veronica put on her bedroom slippers and pushedopen the door to the study room, she realized that Matthew was still atwork.

“You... It's 2 AM already. Why are you still up?”

Veronica was slightly surprised. Turns out the infamous domineeringpresident is actually so busy with work that he doesn't even haveenough time to sleep!

Matthew was currently seated in front of his computer and he was on aconference call. The people on the other end were mainly several closebusiness associates of his.

“Wow, Kings! Your pretty little wife seems to be quite anxious.”

“Hal It looks like we've taken up Kings’ precious sweet time with hiswife.”

“Don't keep her a secret. Let us have a look at her!”

Just then, the men on the conference call teased Matthew relentlessly.On the other hand, Matthew became thunderous and he instantly hungup the call.

He took a look at the time on the bottom right corner of his computerand found out that it was already past 12 AM. In fact, it was already2.30 AM. "Why are you still up?”

Veronica shrugged in response. “I couldn't sleep.”

“Even so, why are you here?”

“I couldn't sleep, so I wanted to use the computer.”

She had caught up on everything on her social media and nothing wasinteresting on the television. Everything on the television was mindlesslovey-dovey dramas with mediocre actors who lacked acting skills. Theywere constantly flirting with women, so it was quite pointless to watch.“It's too late now. Wait till tomorrow to use the computer.”

“Hmph! You're so selfish.”

Veronica thought that Matthew didn't want her to use his computer, soshe snorted coldly and turned to leave the room in a huff.Subsequently, she plopped herself onto the couch and turned on thetelevision to replace something to watch.

Shortly after that, Matthew walked out of the study room and saw thatshe was full of energy as she watched a reality show. She didn't seemthe least bit tired.

And so, he murmured, “If you can't sleep, why don't you come over andhave a drink with me?”

Having some alcohol could perhaps dull her senses and help her getsome sleep.

Earlier, Veronica had consumed some alcohol but she had puteverything away. The ventilation system of the condominium was greatthat there was no scent of alcohol that lingered in the air.

“Sure,” Veronica agreed without any hesitation.

Subsequently, she got up without putting on her bedroom slippers andwent to the bar to grab a random bottle of wine and two wine glassesbefore walking over to him. “Coincidentally, I was keen to drink somewine too,” she mentioned with a smile.

Matthew stood by the couch and looked at Veronica, who was dressedin a slinky, black nightgown, with her hair falling around her shoulders.Her dainty collarbone and her slender neck were quite prominent. Shedashed around the clean tiles of the room in her dainty, milky-white,clean feet, and she looked rather innocent and cute. She resembled anadorable young girl.

Matthew couldn't quite contain his laughter as he kept his eyes on herunblinkingly.

“Why are you still standing there? Come over and have a drink!”Veronica waved at him and opened the bottle of wine before pouring itinto the wine glasses.

Although the red wines available were vintage ones and required sometime for aeration, Matthew didn’t remind her about it because hewanted her to go to bed as soon as possible.