Chapter 429 Working For Her
"Maria, I envy you for having such a generous friend like Mrs. Zheng."
Rosa, who had been on her guard since the beginning, started to rx as praises were heaped
upon her person from other party guests.
Maria raised her ss and dered, "Rosa, let bygones be bygones! I absolutely adore this
ne. I''d like to propose a toast to you!" Then, the woman drained the contents of her wine
ss.
Rosa could hardly refuse to drink after such a gesture, so she drank a ss of wine in one gulp,
too.
Then, other guests came over one after another to propose a toast to Rosa. "Mrs. Zheng, where did
you buy the ne? How much was it?"
"About thirty million dors, in Brazil."
The woman''s eyes lit up. "Wow! Thirty million dors! How generous of you, Mrs. Zheng! It''s my
honor to get to know you. Let me propose a toast to you!"
Tonight, Maria showed respect to Rosa, which built up her confidence and dignity among these
people. Thus, her mood was greatly improved. The others were enthusiastic to propose a toast to
her, so she drank several more sses of wine.
Maria looked over at Rosa, who was busily talking andughing with others, and a mocking sneer
twisted her mouth. Then, she winked at a ck-d woman in the corner of the room.
Sending her a slight nod in return, the woman approached the party''s host and clinked her wine
ss with the man. "Mr. Sima, happy birthday," the woman greeted him.
"Thank you!"
"Actually, there is something you need to know, but I''m not sure whether I should tell you. After all,
you are married."
Curious, Tate reassured her, "It''s alright, you can tell me. Go on."
"It''s about Rosa." Tate''s gaze followed the woman''s tond on Rosa, who was chatting and drinking
in the middle of a group of people.
"She has always been interested in you, but she doesn''t dare to confess. She''s been begging Maria
to take her to your birthday party when she found out that today is your birthday."
Confusion clouded Tate''s expression upon hearing this. "Wait. Isn''t her husband Colby Zheng?"
The woman appeared a little surprised. "Yes, but both of them have lovers. Don''t you know that
Colby has an illegitimate son?"
"I''ve heard rumors about it, but I don''t know if they''re true."
"Well, Mr. Sima, where there''s smoke, there''s fire."
Tate nodded, appearing to be deep in thought. "You have a point."
"Just now, she said that she has seen you several times before and that she greatly admires you.
She doesn''t dare to approach you because you are married."
"Really?" Evidently from the man''s self-satisfied expression, this piece of information had stroked
his ego.
"Yes. I just thought that you should know, but please let this be off the record, Mr. Sima. Don''t tell
anyone that I was the one who told you." The woman smiled and soon walked away after Tate gave
her his word to not reveal the source of information.
At the end of the birthday party, the guests left one after another. Following suit, Maria stood up but
then staggered and fell back on the sofa.
"Ms. Song, watch out!" Tate eximed, helping her up.
Maria waved her hand and nced at the woman seated beside her. "Rosa, are you okay?"
"Yeah." Rosa was sitting with her head back and her eyes closed, obviously drunk.
Maria looked up at their host and said, "I''m sorry, Mr. Sima, but Rosa seems to have drunk too
much tonight. Could I trouble you to bring her home?"
"Of course I will!" Tate agreed without the least amount of hesitation. "How will you go back then,
Ms. Song?"
"Oh, James will be picking me up. I''ll just wait for him."
"Okay, I''ll drive Mrs. Zheng home."
"Thank you."
Tate picked up the barely conscious woman and strode out of the door.
Once the others were gone, Maria''s drunken lethargy suddenly evaporated, leaving a sober
expression in her eyes.
With a sneer, she stood up and left.
Before she got in the car, she pulled the ne off and signaled to a bodyguard hidden in the
dark. "Take this and sell it. You can split the money with your colleagues!"
The bodyguard hesitated. "But..."
Maria chucked the ne at him, cutting off his protest. "Just take it! Thank you for your hard
work!" Then, she whirled around and slipped inside the car.
Any gift from Rosa disgusted her, even if it was worth three hundred billion dors.
After the car left the nightclub, Maria dialed a number. "Wire her the money, and inform Mr. Sima''s
wife to go back and catch the two of them in the act."
"Yes, Ms. Song!"
Of course, Maria was the one who had arranged for the woman to tell Tate tonight that Rosa had a
crush on him. That woman was on her payroll to do things for her.
In his manor, James was about to go to the bathroom when Maria stopped him. "Wait a minute."
"What''s wrong? Do you want to join me? I don''t mind." The man looked at her with an eyebrow
raised teasingly.
Maria rolled her eyes at him. "I just wanted to ask you if you did anything behind my back on that
day we went shopping."
"Didn''t you ask me the same question already? What happened?" "If you didn''t do anything, then
what''s with the new clothes in the closet?" Maria saw the new clothes and recognized them as the
ones she had tried on that day. Just as she had suspected, James had asked someone to buy
them.
James didn''t know that she was referring to the clothes until she mentioned them. "I didn''t do
anything behind your back. What I did was to make a call and tell someone to buy them. I didn''t tell
that person to hide from you during the purchase."
Maria red at him. He was ying with semantics!
To her surprise, he threw a question back at her. "Then why did you suspect me that day?"
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"I guessed." She tried to muddle through.
The answer was obvious. James pointed it out to her. "Did you feel sorry for having tried on so
many clothes without buying them that you secretly arranged for someone to purchase them for
you? And then, did your people find out that the clothes were already off the shelves? But you were
not sure whether I had someone buy the clothes. You didn''t ask me because you would have felt
embarrassed if it turned out that I didn''t buy the clothes."
It was irritating, the way this man managed to read her mind so perfectly. Feigning annoyance, she
pushed at his chest and growled, "Go to take your shower!"
Smiling, he grabbed her hand and kissed her wrist. "Okay."
"Hurry up!"
"Yes, ma''am!"
Maria had tofort herself as James went to take his shower. It wasn''t until she had gotten over
her embarrassment that shey down on the bed.
The next morning, a sharp voice rang inside an apartment in a high-endmunity. "Tate! Bitch!
You shameless people!"
The woman''s strident voice managed to wake the couple sleeping in the bed. Rosa blearily opened
her eyes and stared in shock at the unfamiliar ceiling.
As she sat up, her head whirling, her eyes met the shing eyes of the woman standing by the
bedside.
Next to her, the man started putting on his clothes. "Honey, why are you back?"
In the next moment, the woman sprang forward and angrily pped the disoriented Rosa across
the face. "You slut! How dare you seduce my husband?!"
The sharp sting shook Rosa out of her daze. Looking down at her unclothed state, she suddenly
understood the situation and fell back against the headboard, stunned. "What happened?" She was
drunkst night, and then... She couldn''t remember anything else.
Why was she in Tate''s bed when she woke up?
"How dare you seduce my husband? I''m calling Colby Zheng!" Tate''s wife took out her phone and
began to dial a number like she had just threatened to do.
Rosa hastily stopped her. "No! Don''t call him!" Heedless of her disarrayed state, she lunged out of
the bed and attempted to snatch the woman''s phone away.
However, her hangover got the worst of her, leaving her without strength and suffering from a
splitting headache.