Chapter 5

The smile on Leah's face instantly froze. She stood there dumbfounded, her brow tightly furrowed:

"What nonsense are you talking!"

She stepped forward, her tone arrogant. "You say you're married, so where's your wife? Why isn't she here with you?"

A mocking curve formed at the corner of my lips. "My wife is on a business trip. Unlike certain idle parasites who just cling to others like vampires."

Before she could explode, Michael beside her immediately darkened his face and accused sharply:

"Gonzalez, how can you say that about Leah! You have no idea how hard she works for the company every day!"

He deliberately paused, making Leah look at me with eyes full of disappointment and fury.

"Gonzalez, look at yourself now, so mean-spirited. Who else would want you besides me?"

"Let me tell you, stop playing these hard-to-get tricks. They only make me despise you more!"

I completely lost patience.

"Security! Are you deaf?"

"Throw these two people out!"

Security quickly moved forward, flanking them on both sides.

Leah struggled frantically, her face contorted as she shrieked at me:

"Gonzalez! How dare you treat me like this! You'll regret it!"

That evening, I received a text from an unknown number.

[You think this will steal Leah from me? Surprise—she doesn't care at all. She's happily taking me ring shopping right now. You think being the Wilson family heir makes you superior? You still can't even hold onto a woman.]

I didn't need to guess who sent it. I immediately blocked the number.

During this time, Anthony and Tobias tried desperately to see me, but I turned them away at the door.

A week later, calculating the time of Presley's flight arrival, I personally drove to the airport to pick her up.

Just as I entered the international arrivals hall, I ran straight into Leah and Michael.

Both had gotten a bit tanned, wearing sunglasses with the leisurely air of returning from vacation.

Seeing me, Leah's eyes lit up, her smile full of triumph. "I knew you were just being stubborn. You even checked my flight schedule to come pick me up? Fine, I'll give you a way to save face."

I looked at her like she was an idiot, not stopping my steps.

Michael spoke in a sarcastic tone. "Mr. Gonzalez, since you personally came to the airport, and Leah is magnanimous enough not to hold it against you, as her fiancé, you should hurry and transfer the funds back to Leah Group."

Leah seemed pleased, raising her hand to hook my arm, but I nimbly dodged.

She wasn't annoyed, thinking I was still being proud. "Alright, stop playing around. Once we register our marriage, I'll give you an even more luxurious wedding. Will that work?"

I walked right past both of them and strode toward Presley, who had just emerged.

"Darling, welcome home!"

Presley caught my embrace, her cool eyes instantly softening as she lifted her head and placed a gentle kiss on my chin.

Behind us, the triumphant smile on Leah's face instantly froze.

After a brief deadly silence came Leah's humiliated roar:

"Gonzalez! Haven't you played around enough!"

She rushed forward in a few steps, pointing at Presley and shouting:

"To spite me, you even hired an actress? Not bad acting skills—how much did it cost?"

"Name your price. I'll pay you ten times that to get lost right now!"

Presley moved me protectively to her side, her eyes darkening, the atmospheric pressure around her instantly dropping to freezing.

But I pressed down on her hand, leisurely watching Leah's twisted face.

"Leah, didn't you always want to meet my wife?"

I wrapped my arm around Presley's waist, smiling brilliantly. "Let me formally introduce you—this is my legal wife."

Leah's face turned deathly pale. "How can it be you?!"