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.

 had found, Frances had recently been phoning and messaging Khalid non-stop, and said she wanted to

was candid about

father was currently not in the mood to reflect on things between him and

return of his wife

such a dilemma, he was struggling in a mess, and thus longed for

the corner of his lips lifted, Marshall said, "We are going to meet a big customer this time. I guess

thought, he somehow began to

to take the initiative in a relationship,

later, Lydia shifted the topic back to her son Lucas. She said she had no idea

circle of Lucas was not wider than Marshall, and he seldom went anywhere else to kill

she have any idea where his son got acquainted with the girl, nor did she know when they fell in

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

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 he insists

 thought her words did make sense. Heaving a sigh, she said, "You child has grown up, and is able to take care of themselves already. Children can just make their own choices, and we'd

that Old Mrs. Grant was making pointed

ago, it was all because the whole family pushed him so hard that Marshall was

his failed marriage, there must still be grievance

 offered a symbolic

much about her mother, but did

could tell that his unexpected visit had really driven Katherine crazy, and meanwhile, he

be with her again. Even before Katherine came back home, he was still scratching his head

turned out to be warning and threatening as he saw the angry

a click of his lips, he didn't know whether he had done

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

out with each other much in their daily life, and talked about nearly no other topics but work in the

that they did have several

 was just trying to discomfort him by

to admit that Katherine was indeed the sort

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

always been a reticent boy. Maybe I should try to ask him more about

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