Chapter 1231

Erin was bathing comfortably in the bathtub while James gave her a massage. "Are you going to sleep later?"

Erin closed her eyes. "Nope, but you're keeping me company."

James chuckled, at once in love and exasperated. "I'm yours to abuse."

Erin opened her eyes and turned toward him. "Then why don't you get pregnant, and I'll be a baby mommy instead?"

James chuckled and pinched her cheek with a drenched hand. "How are you a mommy if I get pregnant? Why don't you be a baby daddy instead?"

As Erin laughed, a phone rang outside.

"I'll get it," James said.

Erin nodded, since a call at this hour might be about something urgent.

Still, as James stepped outside, he frowned when he saw who it was but answered. "It's a dud. They can't see eye-to-eye."

"How'd you know?" Ken asked.

"It was hate at first sight. They almost fought too."

James nodded—it was just as he thought.

An heiress like Rea Fowler would not change in a split second to get along with Stan, especially not when she had