What Frances was thinking was obvious enough for him.

Given that he had nothing to talk with Clara, he decided to leave and head back home.

As he pulled away the car, Marshall could see from the rearview mirror that Frances was talking to her phone, stamping his feet and showing an exasperated expression on her face towards him.

Marshall took a sigh of relieve, and relaxed the muscles on his face.

Going back to his house, he saw that his grandma was sitting on the sofa and talking with Lydia.

A little surprised to see Lydia here, Marshall greeted her in a respectful tone.

Lydia laughed, "You're back, Marshall! It's quite late now, what has gotten in your way?"

Marshall answered, "Nothing, I have just spent some time meeting my mom."

Hearing that, Old Mrs. Grant sighed, "Is she doing fine recently?"

Marshall answered with a second of pause, "Maybe. She seems doing fine, actually."

Despite the awkward look on her face when she mentioned Clara, she seemed to be getting used to her new life now.

Marshall turned into the kitchen and asked the servant to cook him a bowl of noodles for dinner.

As those cooking utensils clattered in the kitchen, Marshall sat down and joined the talk with the two ladies.

Old Mrs. Grant asked Marshall whether he was going on a business trip for the next few days. Then, she mentioned that she saw Khalid had already packed his things in preparation for the trip, which made her wonder why, since it was the first time she had ever seen Khalid being so pro-active in preparing for a single business trip.

"It is," she said, "as if he couldn't wait to go."

both Marshall and Lydia laughed, but only Marshall knew Old Mrs. Grant was not exaggerating.

Indeed, Khalid was yearning to set off for the business trip as soon as he could, since he was just desperately in need of some space to run away from everything and clean up his mind.

as Marshall had found, Frances had recently been phoning and messaging Khalid non-stop, and said she

woman, and thus was candid about her willingness to be

knew that his father was currently not in the mood to

resolute enough to repulse the return of his wife nor bold enough

was struggling in a mess, and thus longed for some space to cool himself

 said, "We are going to meet a big customer this time. I guess he just don't

somehow began to admire his

initiative in a relationship, which was exactly what Frances was sparing no effort to

topic back to her son Lucas. She said she had no idea who

 Lucas was not wider than Marshall, and he seldom

got acquainted with the girl, nor did she know

 Lydia whether she had introduced any girl to Lucas, and said possibly the girl was

back. If what you said was true, mom, he would have told me the name of the girl already. I suspect that the girl is from a, you know, disadvantaged background. That may explain why

take care of themselves already. Children can just make their own choices, and we'd better stop sticking our hands in their business anymore.

that Old Mrs. Grant was making pointed allusions

was all because the whole family pushed him so hard that Marshall was irritated and decided to marry Katherine. And now, his marriage

didn't seem to blame anyone for his failed marriage, there must

symbolic

words didn't remind him much about her mother, but did get him

had really driven Katherine crazy, and meanwhile, he was also wondering whether

in front of Katherine, and to express his faithful willingness to be with her again.

in his head uncontrollably turned out to be warning and threatening as he

lips, he didn't know whether he had

Grant were still discussing about the identity of Lucas's little girlfriend. As Old Mrs. Grant failed to draw any conclusion, Lydia then turned to Marshall, "What do you think about that, Marshall? You guys always hang

they didn't actually hang out with each other much in their daily life, and talked about nearly no other topics but work in the

next moment, he astonishingly recalled that they did have several times talked about

to discomfort him

to admit that Katherine was indeed the sort

urged him to utter, "Nope, never heard of that. He's a man of

 nodded, "Indeed, he's always been a reticent boy. Maybe I should try to ask him more about that, otherwise he would possibly keep that as a

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255