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

candid about her willingness

 didn't know how Khalid thought of that exactly, but he knew that his father was currently not in the mood to reflect on things between him

 Khalid was neither resolute enough to repulse the return of his wife nor bold enough to accept

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

 Marshall said, "We are going to meet a big customer this time. I guess he just don't want to miss the boat, and thus

second thought, he somehow began to admire

it was important to take the initiative in a relationship, which was exactly what Frances was sparing no

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

 Marshall, and he seldom went anywhere else to kill his

got acquainted with the girl, nor did

a clue either. She asked Lydia whether she had introduced any

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 he insists to keeping her

grown up, and is able to take care of themselves already. Children can just make their own choices, and we'd better

glance at Marshall, and thought that Old Mrs. Grant

hard that Marshall was irritated and decided to marry Katherine. And now, his

marriage, there must still

symbolic nod,

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

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

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

be warning and threatening as

of his lips, he didn't know whether he had done the things

 Old Mrs. Grant failed to draw any conclusion, Lydia then turned to Marshall, "What do you think about that, Marshall? You guys always hang out with each other, and meet in the company almost on a daily basis. Have you ever heard of any girl's

other much in their daily life, and talked about nearly no other

recalled that they did have

 was just trying to discomfort him by

 Katherine was indeed the sort of girl whom Lucas would

heard of that. He's a man of few

 "Indeed, he's always been a reticent boy. Maybe I should try to ask him more

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