Chapter 135 A Married Woman
Hubert had said that there was no need to buy any more dishes, but Teresa still bought two. After paying the money, she walked out of the fast-food restaurant with the takeout and returned to her car.
"Ring!" Her phone rang again.
This time, it was Hubert calling her. Ezra had come and left. Hubert was overthinking, so he couldn't help calling her.
"I'll be right back." Before Hubert could speak, Teresa said the words and hung up.
She had quickly hung up on him, so he looked at the phone in silence for a long time, knowing she was still angry. They had not reconciled. But because of the intervention of his grandma, they both must compromise.
Teresa did return to the store soon. Coming into the store with the takeout, she asked Hubert who was sitting at the cashier's desk, "Have you reheated the dishes? It's time for dinner."
"Yes." Seeing her coming back, he immediately got up, walked out of the cashier's desk, went into the kitchen to get the tableware, and then brought out all the dishes.
Teresa put the takeout on the cashier's desk. Seeing this, Hubert asked, "Didn't I say you don't need to buy more food?"
"I'm afraid you are not used to eating leftovers, so I specially bought two dishes for you. The food of that fast-food restaurant tastes good. I often order takeout there."
Hearing that she had specially bought the two dishes for him, he looked at her deeply. In this marriage, both he and she was giving. He was changing little by little, and so was she.
"A man came to meet you just now, and he knew I am your husband." When passing a fork to Teresa, Hubert continued seemingly casually, "I asked him what was the matter, but he didn't say anything. And he soon left. Did he call you? Is there anything urgent?"
Teresa didn't hide it but said truthfully, "It's Ezra. It's not a big deal. I asked him to call Gwendolyn. I can't help him this time."
Hubert did not reply, so there was a moment of silence between them.
After a long while, Hubert asked, "What did he want you to do?"
Teresa put a shelled shrimp into her mouth. Hubert had shelled all the shrimps at noon, but Andy couldn't eat that much, so there was half a plate of shrimps left. Teresa liked all seafood including shrimp.
"He will go to the Waternll City Hotel for a business party later and needs a female companion. He wanted me to accompany him. I refused. After all, I am a married woman now."
After finishing speaking, she glanced at Hubert. And he knew what she meant. But he remained calm and didn't eat less food because of her glance. But her frankness made him feel much better, and even his appetite became particularly good. So, he ate the two dishes that Teresa had specially bought for him with relish. And they soon ate up all the dishes.
After the meal, when Teresa intend to clean up the dishes, Hubert got up and said, "I'll do it. You sit and rest."
"You sound as if you are afraid I would die of overeating"
Hubert gave a rare smile and said, "I'm really afraid you've overeaten."
"Seafood is easy to go bad. And it will taste much worse in the next meal, so we can't keep it overnight. We must finish it because it is bad to waste food. What's more, seafood is expensive. Although your income is not low, we have to save money. "
Hubert smiled, "I can support you. If you like seafood, we will often buy it by ourselves in the future."
"What Miss Lisbon sent to me is fresh seafood which she brought back from the beach."
"If you're willing, we can also go to the beach on weekends and eat fresh seafood there."
This was the first time Hubert had proposed to spend a weekend outside together with her.
"But it's November now."
"In Waternll, as long as the sun goes to work as usual, it is still hot in the daytime in November. It is suitable to go to the seaside now because it is neither cold nor hot."
Teresa rubbed her stomach and said, "We will discuss it later. I'm not sure whether I will have other things to do this weekend."
Hubert nodded. Then, he picked up the dishes and went into the kitchen to wash them. Seeing this, Teresa reminded him, saying, "Don't pour out so much detergent. It will make the sink full of bubbles."
Hubert frowned in silence. And it took him ten minutes to clean all the dishes. He had opened the refrigerator just now, so he knew there were some fruits inside. He washed a plate, took some fruits out of the refrigerator, washed them, cut them into pieces, placed them on the plate together with some toothpicks, and then walked out of the kitchen with the plate of fruits.
"Come and have some fruits." He put the plate on the cashier's desk.
Teresa said, "...Are you trying to kill me by making me overeat?"
Hubert tapped her forehead with a finger and said, "Why don't you go out for a walk to help digest the food."
The entrance of Watenll Middle School was wide, and there was a long two-lane road next to a river. So, walking along the roadside could help digest the food.
Teresa was startled by his sudden intimate movement and instinctively raised her hand to slap his hand away, but he retracted it. So, she missed hitting him.
"I will go out for a walk later." Teresa sat up straight and asked, "You don't have business entertainment tonight?"
"I was supposed to be entertaining clients now, but my grandma insisted that I should come to accompany you, so I canceled the appointment."
Teresa said embarrassingly, "I didn't ask her to do that."
She had a good relationship with his grandmother and had married him because of her. She was afraid that he would misunderstand that she was making use of the old lady, so she quickly explained.
Hubert intensely looked at her with his black eyes and said solemnly, "I know."
His grandma had given him a way out.
Teresa looked at the time and found it was just about seven o'clock in the evening, so she said, "It's still early. What time were you supposed to meet with the client? You can go now."
Hubert kept silent.
When he didn't speak, there was no expression on his face, making him look particularly serious and indifferent. And his two thin lips were also pressed tightly into a line.
It was said that men with thin lips were all inconstant in love. Teresa didn't know whether he was inconstant in love but knew that he was quite ruthless and unfriendly to young women.
She had helped his grandmother, and the old lady was grateful. Moreover, he was very filial to her grandmother. Otherwise, his attitude toward her would be worse. No, he would not have married her at all.
Hubert met her eyes, so they looked at each other for a while.
"Teresa, do you dislike being alone with me?" Hubert asked in a deep voice and looked at her with a dangerous gleam in his eyes.
"Do you dislike being alone with me?" Teresa asked back.
Hubert fell silent again.
His silence was acquiescence to Teresa. But she didn't care. She took out her mobile phone to watch videos and said, "Mr. Donovan, if you are busy, you should go to do your work. I am used to looking after the store by myself. "
To be honest, she wasn't used to Hubert's accompanying her.
Hearing this, Hubert showed a sullen face, thinking she was driving him away!