Chapter 431 Matthew’s Schemes
The conversation fell into silence until Hendrey asked in ‘surprise’, “What… Did you say? Tiffany, she’s… she’s gone?”
Although Veronica could not see his expression right now, she could already feel the sadness in him. It was not an agonizing feeling, but he could not pretend that nothing had happened before, considering the fact that he had shared a past with Tiffany.
“Her funeral is over, though.” In other words, Veronica was wondering if he was still going to return. Yet, the man merely sighed and did not reply.
“Hendrey, are you okay?”
“I just need some time alone,” he responded before hanging up the phone without hesitation. Du… Du… Du…
Now that the call had ended, she pondered, He must be in despair to know the sudden news.
She went back to the living room and sat for a while until Caleb, Skyler and Miguel arrived with the sushi. They sat on the dining table and began to revel in the food happily. Amidst the laughter of merriment, they raised their glasses and cheers. Before they realized it, they had already finished seventeen bottles of red wine.
The light drinkers—Miguel and Caleb—had passed out with one of them lying on the couch while the other on the table. Skyler held his glass and let out a hearty laughter. “Sasha, see? Caleb and Miguel are really bad at drinking. You wouldn’t be able to build up your alcohol tolerance if it wasn’t for me.”
In the meantime, Matthew drank his wine while hugging Veronica’s shoulders with one hand with her head resting on his shoulder. She was good at drinking, so she was slightly tipsy. With her leaning against his shoulder, she listened to their childhood stories attentively. It was probably because she liked him so much that she was rather curious about his past.
Sasha gulped down the wine before setting down the glass with a thud. Fighting through the dizziness, she struggled to look at Matthew while pointing at him. “It’s him! We always slept together in university. I have liked him since then…”
“Hahaha! Right! You guys kept hanging out together back then, but you left without a word in the end. He was super sad about it.” A drunk Skyler was a mess as well. He could recall the memories pertaining to the duo, yet he left out the fact that Sasha had left the country for SRS.
Meanwhile,Veronica, who had raised her glass to take a sip of the wine, lost her appetite. She shrewdly caught the main point from their words.
They always slept together in university? Sasha left without a word and Matthew was super sad about it? So… were they in love?
Matthew took a glance of the woman, who was leaning against him, with downcast eyes. He could tell that she was sober from her fluttering, long eyelashes. He knew of her alcohol tolerance as well.
“Stop the nonsense, Skyler. Matt won’t be sad because of me.” Sasha grabbed the wine bottle to fill Skyler and her glass. They toasted before downing it in one-go.
She piped up dizzily, “But I still like him regardless if he was sad or not. I fell in love with him at first sight back in the day. Hiccup! I like him—”
“You don’t know anything. Matt… Matt loves you so much…” Skyler poured himself another glass of wine and polished it off before blabbering ‘thoughtlessly’, “If he didn’t love you, why didn’t he find himself another woman after you left Bloomstead?”
He then looked at Veronica reflexively to notice that she was ‘fast asleep’ while resting her head on Matthew’s shoulder. He continued, “Why do you think he would marry Tiffany? It’s because he thought she was his savior. It’s… It’s merely an act of gratitude. Then… Then, he came across Roni. Oh! You might not know who I’m talking about. Roni is Veronica.”
“Skyler, go back to your place if you’re drunk!” growled Matthew as his face darkened.
With a crimson face, Skyler raised an eyebrow and pointed at Veronica. “Matt, why are you angry? Roni’s… Roni’s sleeping. Besides, I… I’m telling the truth. Only the truth! You don’t love her. You wanna marry her because her personality resembles Sasha. You know that—hiccup—You do know that Sasha’s returning, so you hooked onto Roni to put on a show in front of Sasha.”
Having said that, he cast his gaze onto Sasha and added, “Sasha, the person Matt likes is you. He hates how you left without a word, so… He has found someone to replace you. Matt… doesn’t like Vero—”
“Shut up!” ordered Matthew as he set down the glass on the table with a thud. He patted Veronica’s cheeks lightly. “Roni? Don’t listen to Skyler. He’s—”
He cupped her cheeks and realized that her wine glass was already on the table while she had fallen asleep for quite some time.
“Roni? Roni?” He gently patted her cheeks again and was sure that she was ‘sleeping’ given the zero responses.
“See? I’ve told you that Roni’s asleep, but you didn’t trust me.” Skyler slammed the table before pointing at him. “Honestly, I don’t think you and Veronica suit each other. Her personality is similar to Sasha’s, but she’s not Sasha after all. Since Sasha’s back for good, you… You better not be silly and marry Veronica. If this is how you’re going to take revenge on Sasha, you won’t be able to handle the consequences.”
“Really? Matt, do you really like me?” Sasha stared at Matthew intensely as tears trickled down her cheeks and she began to choke on her words. “I knew it. I knew that there’s n-no way you wouldn’t like me.”
“But, there’s no future ahead of us,” he coldly refused.
“Why?” She was reluctant to give up.
“You abandoned me back then. Even if I don’t love Veronica, I will never go out with you either.”
“Why? Matt, d-don’t you know why I left at that time? I… I was—”
“I don’t wanna know why you left, but I want you to taste how it feels to see me and Veronica being together,” interrupted Matthew sternly while looking at Sasha.
In fact, Veronica, the heavy drinker, was pretending to be asleep due to fatigue. Who would have known that she would discover shocking news afterward? Skyler and Sasha’s conversation reached her ears loud and clear.
Really? Is that true?
Their words kept ringing in her ears. The shocking discovery made her heart throbbed in pain. However, she was willing to believe in Matthew since he had not said anything about it yet.
