The CEO's Mischievous Little Bride
Chapter 276 Having a Baby

Patrick sneered. "You've got some nerve; now you're even socializing with others?"

Vera looked at the chat interface on her phone, saying, "Honey, his name is Austin Diaz."

Patrick said, "It's a man."

Vera stopped coaxing Molly and immediately turned around, holding Patrick's hand with hers. "Honey, we're just new friends."

"It seems like he has made quite a good impression on you."

Vera quickly tried to soothe Patrick. "No, don't be jealous. I'll explain everything to you slowly when we get back to the bedroom tonight, okay?" Vera patted Patrick's chest, like scratching an itch.

"I'm not jealous," Patrick said, holding onto his last bit of pride.

Vera replied, "Yeah, I misspoke; you're not jealous."

Everyone in the living room watched Vera coax Patrick, clearly seeing through her insincerity.

Patrick glanced at everyone, instinctively feeling that no one in the house believed he wasn't jealous.

He awkwardly coughed and put down the small hand on his chest. "Stop it. I'm already calm."

However, Patrick still remembered that Vera's contacts now included someone named Austin.

After dinner, Patrick dragged Vera back to the bedroom. "Come up. I have something to tell you."

Vera replied, "Wait a moment. I was going to play with Molly and Randall."

It was the first Christmas Vera, Molly, and Randall were spending together as family, and they had planned to stay up all night.

Plans never kept up with changes. Vera was dragged away.

As she was being pulled up the stairs, Vera said to Molly and Randall, "Wait for me, I'll be back soon."

Molly and Randall sat together, watching Vera disappear.

"Randall, I bet Vera won't come back down."

Randall said, "I bet Vera definitely won't come down tonight."

Molly and Randall looked at each other and nodded heavily.

Because it was already past eight o'clock at night.

Vera was dragged back to the room. "Honey, what do you want to say? Make it quick, I still want to play."

Patrick locked the bedroom door, and Vera felt uneasy seeing this. "It's Christmas, honey, don't mess around."

Patrick turned around. "Start explaining about Austin."

Vera was surprised that Patrick was still jealous.

Vera stood in front of him, hands behind her back. "He's just the guy I beat up. I went to the hospital to visit him, and who knew he was a man. We had a good chat and exchanged contact info, hoping to collaborate in the future." Patrick remembered Vera had been missing for half a day. "You needed half a day to meet a guy and had to hide it from me?"

Vera pouted and nodded. "Yes, I initially thought he was a woman. You're so handsome, I was afraid the woman would be jealous of my great husband, so I didn't take you along."

"And, honey, Austin is actually quite interesting.""

The first part of Vera's explanation made Patrick's jealousy subside, but the last part, "quite interesting," instantly enraged Patrick.

Anger spread quickly.

Patrick grabbed the back of Vera's neck. "Come to bed with me. I'm quite interesting too."

"Honey, no, let go of me first. Let me finish talking. I find him interesting because of his job. He can't be more interesting than my husband, not as handsome, not as good." Vera quickly tried to save herself. Patrick indeed didn't push Vera onto the bed.

"You think being a ghost impersonator is interesting? Weren't you the one scared that day? Who was crying for me to save her?" Patrick was so petty that he couldn't even tolerate Vera praising another man's job. Vera used her sweet kisses to soothe the jealous Patrick, "Honey, I think his job is particularly useful to me."

"Think about it, I've already been to the police station twice, I definitely can't fight anymore. But there are still many people I hate, like Emma's whole family, Dylan, and Joe. I can't fight them, but I can scare them, right?" "Next time these idiots make you angry, I'll have Austin and his ghost friends scare the hell out of them."

"In this way, I don't have to fight, and I won't get caught, right? I'm smart, aren't I?"

Vera looked up at Patrick with a face begging for praise.

Patrick understood and corrected Vera's misconception. "First, these idiots don't dare make me angry; you usually fight them because they make you angry."

Patrick lightly tapped Vera's forehead. "Second, you have plenty of ideas for messing with people, but you fall asleep as soon as you start studying. However, you do deserve some praise."" Patrick's gaze moved from Vera's eyes to her nose, lips, neck, collarbone, and chest.

Vera sensed the change in Patrick's gaze and immediately pushed him away. "It's Christmas, I want to stay up all night with Randall and Molly."

"We can 'stay up' all night too."

Vera tried to escape but was caught before reaching the door.

Then, her feet left the ground, and Vera was placed on the big bed.

Patrick pinned Vera's hands and kissed her lips.

Clothes were shed, bodies intertwined.

The room was filled with springtime warmth and romance.

"Honey, I don't want this kind of reward."

Patrick said, "I'm the one giving the gift; you take what I give."

With that, Patrick didn't let go of Vera beneath him.

Vera blushed, biting her lip to avoid making any sound.

"Tonight, my gift to you is staying up all night."

Downstairs, Molly and Randall looked at each other. "We both won the bet."

Upstairs, Patrick looked at Vera beneath him. "Vera, Merry Christmas."

"I'm not happy at all."

Patrick continued kissing her. "I'm very happy."

Vera had a premonition that with their current frequency, she'd be expecting a baby in ten months.

Molly and Randall had nothing to wait for, so they went back to their rooms to sleep after Christmas ended.

Austin saw that his Christmas message hadn't been replied to even after midnight. He checked several times and finally put down his phone around one o'clock, preparing to sleep. Suddenly, his phone rang, and Austin quickly got up to check the message.

It wasn't a message from Vera, and he put his phone back down, disappointed.

"You beat me up, and now you're happily celebrating Christmas while I'm stuck in the hospital."

Austin closed his eyes, thinking of the girl who had thrown him over her shoulder.

Austin smiled to himself. "That girl is really cool."

The next morning, Vera stayed wrapped in the blanket, refusing to get up.

Patrick, fully dressed, sat on the bed and patted her shoulder. "Vera, time to get up."

Vera said, "No, I'm not getting up."

Vera had gone to bed late and hadn't had enough sleep.

Plus, outside was the howling wind, while inside was her warm, cozy bed. It was the perfect sleeping environment, and she wasn't about to waste it. She wasn't getting up. Even if someone pointed a gun at her head, she wouldn't get up.