The president's seventh bride

In the evening when Carlos got home, he pretended to be casual and asked Alicia, "Where did you go today?"

"I went to visit a distant relative. You've called me, right?"

Carlos was a bit surprised, he didn't expect Alicia to tell him everything frankly, "Yes, and he said I have the wrong number."

"At that time I went to the bathroom, and he was borrowing money from me, but I refused to lend it to him, so he got a little angry and picked up the phone for me and said you have the wrong number." "Oh, that makes sense."

Carlos gave a sigh of relief and smiled at her gently, "I am really worried that you would lie to me before I asks you. You know that I hate those people who lie to me the most." "Of course I would not lie to you."

He patted her shoulder and said in a serious tone, "I don't treat you as an outsider anymore, so just remember, don't lie to me about anything, or I'll be very disappointed." "Absolutely not."

A day passed by peacefully and quickly, but Alicia did not feel relieve, and was more concerned than ever. She kept thinking that Dillon's existence would greatly threaten her relationship with Carlos.

That night, Alicia stood in front of the window for a whole night, falling into deep thought and finally making a big decision before the dawn.

She did not want to live in the darkness, she wanted to save herself, and together to save Carlos as well.

After breakfast, she went to her mother's grave and put a bunch of lilies in front of the monument. Lilies were her mother's favorite flower, and it was a cartload of lilies that had made Colton capture her mother's heart, which led to her miserable life later. "Mom, today I am here to ask forgiveness from you, please forgive me, because of a man, for the first time, I want to give up to avenge your death...

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Alicia knelt down, with her fingers gently touching her mother's photo, "You must be so disappointed in me, how can I be so selfish, for my own sake, I even forget the pain you've suffered. I'm sorry mom, really sorry, I really don't want to use that man to achieve my purpose. Perhaps from the beginning, he was my nemesis, and I've kept reminding myself that I must win his trust, and then use his trust to destroy Colton. But so far, I have given up, because I don't expect that the man, like me, has experienced a serious trauma in his heart, maybe because we are the same kind of person, I can not bear to hurt him. I can understand more than anyone the taste of a knife stabbing into your heart...

Alicia's tears couldn't stop rolling down. Avenging her mother's death was her wish since she was a child. She planned for years to achieve this wish, but now suddenly she would want to give it up, not to mention her mother, even she couldn't forgive herself for this. She never understood why her mother admired her father so much before, but on that day, when Carlos told her, "Because I am not a normal person, that's why I hope you can live a normal life." It was this sentence that made her understand her mother. Love always happened quietly with no reason. Love was inevitable, even if you knew you would be hurt badly, you would still like a flying moth darting into the fire, loving the man you loved.

After kowtowing three times, she got up and left. Her figure which looked so determined, signaled that she, for the first time in twenty-four years, wanted to be brave and live a different life, taking a different path and being a different person.

She went to a cake store to order a cake for Carlos. Although she was in a low mood since last night, but she did not forget that today was Carlos's birthday.

After ordering the cake, she went to the nearby shopping mall and prepared to buy a gift for him.

On the way home, she had made the mind to confess everything to Carlos tonight, her initial purpose, and the different feelings she now had for him.

When Alicia arrived home, there was no one at home. She asked the housekeeper, "Paul, where are father and mother?"

The housekeeper replied, "Mr. and Mrs. Noel-Baker went to attend the funeral of the chairman of Lifan Group, and will probably go back in the afternoon."

"Okay."

She nodded, and turned around and went upstairs, and when she got to her room, she took out her phone and sent a text message, "When will you be back this afternoon?"

Carlos replied with a short message, "Something wrong?"

"Yes."

"What is it?"

"It is a secret for now."

He sent a speechless emoji, accompanied by two words, "Back soon."

The next moment, Alicia was very uneasy, she did not know if Carlos could forgive her for the purpose of marrying him in the first place, and more importantly, she was not sure if he had her in his heart.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, she went to the cake store. The cake had been done, an English letter LOVE was carved with jam on the top of the cake that was full of snow-white cream. If Carlos would pay more attention to it, he would absolutely understand her feelings to him.

The cake had been prepared, and so did the gift. She returned to the Cloud Mansion with mixed feelings, her parents-in-law still had not come home, so did her sister-in-law and Carlos.

She waited in the living room for a while, feeling a bit bored, so she went into the kitchen and wanted to prepare a dinner for everyone. Since she had married into the Noel-Baker family, she had never cooked a meal, not because she was lazy or she didn't know how to cook, but because her mother-in-law didn't allow her to cook for them.

Her mother-in-law once said, "The daughter-in-law of the Noel-Baker family, as well as her daughter, are all girls that are loved by them, so she has always been on equal footing with her sister-in-law in this family."

"Mrs. Alicia, you'd better go out, we will prepare the dinner."

The two maids in charge of cooking saw her tying her apron, and preparing the food, they were very nervous and at a loss for words.

"It's okay, give you guys the night off and have some rest."

"We can't, if Mrs. Sara finds out, she will definitely punish us."

"Don't worry, I'll explain for you guys, it's none of your business, I'm the one who wants to cook."

The maids saw that her mind had made up, they really had no choice but to let her be, helping her from the side.

If Alicia was a treasure in the

Noel-Baker family's, then in her parents' house she was definitely meaningless grass, in the Noel-Baker family's she was served three meals a day by the maids, in her parents' house, she had to serve the whole family.

The maids could not believe that she was such a good cook, her cooking skills was superb, and in less than an hour, she had prepared a sumptuous dinner for the whole family.

Paul listened to the maids' report and hurriedly came to the living room, skimming the cake on the table, and said to Alicia, "Mrs. Alicia, Master Carlos he..."

Before he could finish his words, the family came back unannounced, Mr. and Mrs. Noel-Baker, Aurora and Carlos, as if they had planned to go home together. "Father, mother, you're back."

Alicia walked forward to greet, and took over the jacket in her mother-in-law's hand.

"We are back, it's really a tiring day."

Edward sniffed his nose, "It smells so good, is dinner ready already?"

"Yes, father."

Alicia smiled and nodded, glancing at Carlos, "I have prepared the dinner all by myself to celebrate Carlos's birthday today."

Her words froze everyone instantly, and Aurora rushed to grab Alicia's hand and whispered to her, "Didn't I tell you everything, Alicia? Why are you still touching Carlos's sore spot?" "What did you say to me?" Alicia was a little confused.

Aurora patted her own head, "I wanted to tell you everything that day, but you left without waiting for me to finish!"

"What happened?"

She frowned and felt a bit uneasy.

Carlos stood up suddenly and walked to the dining table, picked up the cake on the table and heavily threw it to the ground, the LOVE letters written on the cake was not seen by him in the end, and the cake fell into pieces. "What are you doing? Are you crazy?"

She rushed over and pushed Carlos in anger, watching the cake sadly as if her heart were stepped on by him.

"Didn't I tell you that I'm not celebrating my birthday, why do you have to consider yourself always right?!"

Carlos looked even angrier than she was, "Can you ask my permission before doing anything? Don't you know it hurts so much to expose my scars like this?"

After he yelled, he left the living room. Alicia's eyes instantly got wet, but she stubbornly controlled her tears from falling down, and they kept swirling in her eyes until her parents in-laws came over.

"Poor child, I'm sorry for making you suffer, don't blame Carlos, this is a humiliating day for him, and one that he would least like to remember."

"Why?"

She asked, choking up as she tried to suppress the urge to cry.

Aurora sadly answered for her

parents, "Because today is the day Dulcie abandoned my brother, three years ago, she accepted my brother's proposal and promised to be his most beautiful bride on his birthday, but no one expected that the result would be a tragedy..."

Alicia's heart beat faster. It was because of that woman again!

"After that day, my brother has no longer celebrated his birthday for the last three years, each of us will deliberately ignore what day it is, and do not dare to mention the word birthday in front of him. We are afraid of touching his sore spot." "I'm sorry, father, mother. I don't know what happened three years ago, and I'm sorry for making you guys sad today."

Alicia nodded to her parents in-laws, who quickly comforted her, "It's not your fault, it's definitely not your fault, those who don't know are not guilty, we don't blame you at all."

She squatted down and silently packed the cake into the box, seeing the red jam everywhere, she finally couldn't help but cry out.

"Just let the maids clean up, come to eat first."

Her mother-in-law pulled her up

gently and together with her daughter led her to the table. Watching a sumptuous dinner on

thoughts, in order not to agonet

the table, everyone had their own

the burden in her heart, even though they were very sad, they also forced a smile and praised her good cooking.

Alicia looked at her parents in-laws as well as her sister-in-law trying very hard to eat, suddenly she put down the chopsticks in her hand and ran out...000☐☐