The CEO's Mischievous Little Bride
Chapter 557 On Vera's Grudge

Shawn also noticed Vera wearing the gemstone necklace that Savannah had given her. After calming down in the afternoon, he felt much better.

"I thought Vera didn't care about money," Shawn recalled his impulsiveness that afternoon, and Vera's role in it, so he deliberately teased her to vent his frustration, "When these were on the gifts list, you tried your best to break off the engagement. I think I overrated you at that time."

Vera said, "Dad, next time you prepare gifts, if you give such good things, even if the groom show up, I won't call off the engagement."

Patrick, standing nearby, coughed lightly. She was still upset.

Shawn also sensed something was off.

His deep eyes glanced at Patrick, who was being ignored by Vera, and then back at Vera's face, which was full of displeasure towards Patrick. "What's going on with you two?" Molly could marry Sebastian as Vera wished, so why was Vera unhappy again?

Not only Shawn noticed, but others also saw it.

Vera, holding a fork, said, "He just doesn't love me anymore, doesn't care about me, doesn't want to be with me. After we had a kid, he thought I'm childish."

Patrick remained silent.

Hearing this, Shawn frowned and coldly confronted Patrick, "What did you do to upset Vera again?" Patrick, unafraid of Shawn, replied with a cold face, "It involves privacy, we'll handle them ourselves." Vera mumbled softly on the side, "You handle it yourself. I'll just take care of Theodore and myself."

After dinner, Vera took Patrick back to the bedroom.

Splitting rooms over a fight was too dramatic. If she went home every time they argued, Warren and Brianna would think she was being mistreated and maybe Noah would come over to query Patrick.

It wasn't as free as staying at Cherry Villa. In the end, Vera, who knew better, chose to return to the bedroom and continue facing Patrick.

Patrick went to the bathroom and saw her on the side, rubbing Theodore's pajamas with her red hands.

He put his large hand into the sink, grabbing her reddened hands, "The maids can wash the clothes. You don't have to."

"I don't trust the maids." Baby clothes can't be washed with the same detergents as adult clothes. His skin was delicate and needed to avoid harsh detergents. So Theodore had his own special laundry detergent, gentle and non-irritating. Besides, Vera usually washed Theodore's clothes after her bath, just giving them a quick rub and hanging them up. After all, Theodore was little, and so were his clothes, making them easy to wash. "Then let me wash them for him," Patrick said again.

Vera glanced at Patrick beside her, "You're a mature and steady CEO. This childish task should be mine."

Later, Theodore lay on the big bed crying loudly. One of them had to leave. In the end, unable to argue with Vera, Patrick left.

At night, Vera held Theodore, isolating Patrick.

Patrick realized that Vera had now developed a new skill, sulking with him.

When his shirts were returned by the maids with some wrinkles, Vera used to iron them out for him. Now, they were hung in the closet just as they were returned.

He glanced at Vera, who sat up with her hair down, eyes closed in exhaustion, feeding Theodore.

Patrick picked another ironed shirt to change into.

Before going to work, he hugged Theodore and looked at Vera, who seemed tired and ready for a morning nap. He leaned down and kissed her forehead. "I'm leaving. If you don't want to go downstairs for breakfast, have the maids bring it to the bedroom," Patrick reminded gently,

In her sleepy state, Vera momentarily forgot she was mad at Patrick. "Goodbye, honey."

Patrick took another look at them and left.

They were fine in the morning, but when Patrick returned in the afternoon, Vera had woken up and started holding a grudge again. Even Randall noticed their cold war, "Vera, what's going on with you and Patrick?"

Vera said, "Patrick thinks I'm childish even though I'm a mom now." Randall replied, "That's it?"

Vera retorted, "So what, you want me to fight Patrick? He said this is already very serious. Anyway, if he doesn't apologize this time, I won't forgive him. I'm childish, he can leave me and live alone if he has the guts." Randall wanted to mediate a bit more, but Vera shut him down with one sentence, "You're not married, so stay out of it."

Randall thought about it and found it very reasonable.

If he spoke for Vera, he'd offend Patrick. If he spoke for Patrick, Vera would be angry with him. So, he decided not to get involved.

After a few days of cold shoulder, one day, Patrick went to work and, as usual, tried to appease Vera with money, "Notify finance to transfer another hundred million dollars to Vera's account."

By noon, finance appeared, "Mr. Olteran, Mrs. Olteran refused the money."

Patrick then realized she was hard to appease this time.

"You can go," Patrick said.

When the office was empty, Patrick dialed Vera's number, "Vera, what gift do you want? I'll buy it for you after work."

"I'm childish, not worthy of your gifts." On the other end of the phone, there was Theodore's crying, very noisy.

"I'll calm Theodore down." Vera coldly hung up the phone, holding Theodore and pacing back and forth. "Why are you crying again? Don't act like Patrick. If you keep crying, I won't care about you either." Theodore didn't understand a word and continued crying in Vera's arms.