Chapter 16: Mrs. Pei, don’t disappoint me on our wedding night
"Mrs. Peary?!" Holy crap! Hendry Hampton was in disbelief. Didn’t Nia Mitchell call him Uncle Peary? "Mrs... Mrs... Mrs. Peary..." Hendry Hampton struggled to utter those three words. It was hard for him to accept that someone like Young Master Peary was actually married.
However, there was one person at the scene who found this identity even harder to accept than he did.
Nia Mitchell stood there dumbstruck, her right hand held by Maxwell Peary and her left arm gripped by Hendry Hampton. Then... she just froze.
"Uncle... Uncle Peary..." Finding her voice at last, she stood beside him, looking up at his profile. She was Mrs. Peary? Oh, right, they had registered their marriage.
"Mrs. Peary, I’m begging you. I have nothing left. Please, will you let me go?" Saying this, Hendry Hampton collapsed to the ground, his eyes lifeless. In a single night, he had lost everything.
Nia Mitchell clenched her fists. The man she had once liked was kneeling so humbly before her. It should have been a very satisfying scene, yet it made her feel ashamed and embarrassed.
She didn’t remember how she left the Police Station, nor did she know what Hendry Hampton’s final outcome was. By the time she came to her senses, she was already at the Royal Bay Villa.
"Uncle Peary." Touching the gauze on her neck, she sat up primly.
"What is it?" Maxwell Peary poured a glass of water and placed it on the coffee table. Seeing Nia Mitchell suddenly so reserved, he felt an inexplicable discomfort in his heart.
"You’re so busy. Did I delay your work again?" He had rushed back to the Company earlier, and his secretary had even fired *him*! He must be very busy.
"It’s fine." He then sat down beside her and put his arm around her waist. Feeling Nia Mitchell stiffen, he teasingly lifted her chin. "You need to get used to my touch. We are husband and wife." As he spoke, Maxwell Peary’s hand, which was around her waist, gave her soft flesh a pinch. Nia Mitchell jumped.
"Uncle... Uncle Peary!" Nia Mitchell shot up, her face completely red.