The president's seventh bride

Even though Alicia had no attachment to the Joliot-Curie family where she had lived for more than ten years, she was still not used to living in a totally strange place. Especially, the place made her feel so weird.

Tossing and turning all night, she got up before dawn and wanted to go out to take a bath. However, fearing that she would wake up Carlos, she had to sit by the bed and wait for daylight.

It was almost dawn. Through the window of modest size in her room, staring at the rising sun, she seemed to have seen the glimmers of hope approaching her gradually, penetrating her body and finally evolving into the infinite power.

With a knock at the door, she heard Carlos' cold voice, "Are you up?"

She quickly replied, "Yes." Then she got up and opened the door.

"Go downstairs with me."

Without looking at her, he gave the order and Alicia followed him downstairs. There were already two elders with ruddy complexions sitting in the living room, who were Master Edward and Mrs. Sara respectively.

The servant of the Noel-Baker family served the tea. Alicia understood that this was a rule in a wealthy family that the newly-married wife had to serve her parents-in-law tea. She went forward gracefully, took a cup of tea and said respectfully to Master Edward, "Dad, please drink the tea."

Master Edward looked up in surprise and asked, "What did you call me?"

"Dad."

"Good, good," he took the tea quickly.

Alicia picked up the other cup and handed it to Mrs. Sara, "Mom, please drink the tea."

Mrs. Sara smiled and held her hand, "You know, the former daughters-in-law only called us Master Edward and Mrs. Sara. You are the first one to call us Dad and Mom."

She looked at her son and said happily, "I didn't expect the monk on the Imperial Mountain to have really answered my prayer. I must go and redeem my vow today."

Carlos discouraged her, "Don't get too excited about that. Let's wait and see in three months."

He turned around and went upstairs. Mrs. Sara seemed to have become accustomed to it, so her good mood wasn't affected at all. She lowered her voice and asked Alicia, "Did you have a good time last night?"

Alicia smiled shyly, "Well, it's quite pleasant."

"Did you have sex? I saw you kissed."

Mrs. Sara looked excited and waited for her answer. Alicia suddenly blushed with embarrassment at the thought of the eyes peeping through the door last night. Sensing how embarrassed she was, Master Edward shot a glance at his wife beside him, "No matter how anxious you are, you can't ask her in such a blunt way."

"Good morning, Alicia!"

"Good morning, Aurora."

Aurora came to the living room and broke the embarrassing silence. Mrs. Sara told her, "Go and tell your brother downstairs to have breakfast."

"I'm not going to do that."

Alicia said immediately, "I'll go."

She slowly went upstairs and pushed open the door of the bedroom, only to find that there was no one in the room. She looked around in confusion and walked to the room adjacent to the bedroom. When she was wondering where he had gone, suddenly a voice came from behind, "Are you looking for me?"

She abruptly turned around and nodded numbly, "Well, yes, it's time for breakfast."

Only then did Carlos looked at her in the eye, but he kept staring at her eyes, which made her almost get goose bumps, so she asked, "Is there something on my face?"

"Could it be that you finally got what you wanted by marrying into the purple, so you got too excited to sleep last night?"

She was confused and then forced a smile, "Yes, you can see that? It seems that you know a lot about women."

"It's not that I know about women, but your dark eyes are too scary. Make up an explanation yourself when you go downstairs, and don't make others think that I was having sex all night with you."