Mia was totally smitten, completely taken in by the charm of Andre.
"Hey, Mia, what are you daydreaming about? Hurry up and stick it, let's play a couple more rounds after." Hansen was still game-crazy, eagerly urging his little daughter-in-law, who was bewitched by his son.
Andre was staring back, which made it harder for her to escape his grip.
"Seen enough?" Andre's voice was warm and there was a faint smile on his face.
Mia shivered, thinking to herself, Oh my god, I had been totally captivated by my husband, how embarrassing!
In the end, she lightly touched her husband's face and blushing, returned to her place to munch on some chips and play poker.
After a few rounds, Mia realized she hadn't won a single game, and Andre kept losing too.
Up till now, the only person winning at poker was Hansen.
Munching on her chips, Mia suddenly felt gloomy, was she going to lose again?
"Dad, can you let me win once, so I can actually do something useful." Mia suggested.
Hansen's fatherly love instantly kicked in, "Alright, alright, I'll let you have a round, give you a chance."
Mia looked at her cards and reluctantly said, "I don't have any suitable cards to play."
Hansen expressed his discontent, "If your cards are that bad, then don't play, I'm going to win again."
Hansen laid out all his sequential cards, "Another win."
Mia hugged her head in frustration.
Something was definitely fishy!
It couldn't be that Hansen's cards were always good.
She turned her gaze to her husband who was dealing the cards, her eyes filled with suspicion.
Could it be that her husband was purposely losing?
He was the one dealing the cards every time, only he had the opportunity to cheat.
Mia watched her husband's hands dealing the cards, observing carefully.
But she couldn't tell anything was amiss.
"Honey, let me deal the cards." Mia didn't trust him, she reached out her hand.
Andre raised an eyebrow, looking at his clever and cute wife. Had she seen through his ploy?
Mr. Cedillo stretched out his long arm and handed the cards to his wife. "Do you know how?"
"Even if I don't, I won't let you cheat anymore."
She pouted.
Andre opened her bag of snacks, took out a canned beer and took a sip.
Even though it had been sitting out for a while, it was still icy cold and refreshing.
Mia was still munching on snacks, she cooed at her husband, "Honey, can I have a sip?"
Andre didn't respond.
Mia continued to coo, "Honey, just one sip, a small one, I'm thirsty."
Andre handed her the beer, "Drink a little."
Mia held the beer can with both hands, she directly put her mouth to it and started gulping it down.
Just as Mr. Cedillo was delighted about indirectly kissing his wife, she said: "Oops, honey, I accidentally finished the beer."
This little girl who had drunk half a can of beer was still looking guilty and cooing to Andre that she had finished the beer!
Andre realized that she did it on purpose!
Looking at his wife's innocent face, he felt both annoyed and amused.
He couldn't bear to scold her, he could only silently endure.
Later, Mia kept eating snacks, Andre drank beer.
Hansen always won the card games.
The nurse came to check Hansen's blood pressure again and found it was still high.
Mia asked in surprise, "I let him win every round, but why is his blood pressure still high?"
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