Nicole suddenly materialized next to them.

Evan had seen right through her intentions. With nothing left to defend herself, Maya bowed her head and started slurping up the noodles.

Nicole said, “Mr. Seet, thank you for making spaghetti for Maya. If there’s anything you want for dinner, I’ll be happy to make it for you as a gesture of my appreciation.”

Evan thought for a while before asking Juan and Kyle for their opinions.

“Mommy, I want to have beef stew.”

“Me too, Mommy.”

After thinking it through for a while, Nicole decided to indulge the children’s requests. She announced that they would be having beef stew for dinner.

Turning to Evan, she said, “There are no more ingredients in the house. We’ll have to run down to the grocery store for them.”

Evan stood up. “I’ll go. I think I saw some vegetables in the fridge. You can wash them up first.”

“Alright.” Nicole approved of his suggestion very much.

Overjoyed, Juan and Kyle applauded loudly.

“Mommy, we’ll help you!”

Nicole refused gently. “It’s okay. Run along and play now, Mommy will finish washing these vegetables very soon.”

need help, just holler for us! We’ll

“Alright.”

ran happily to

down her chopsticks and hopped off the chair. Toddling towards him on her stubby legs,

at her.

his ear. Evan looked at her in shock. “Is that

Uncle Evan, if you buy me one of those

“Okay, let’s go!”

her along. It was quite unlikely

gazed at the huge cartoon lollipop that Evan had

kindergarten, one of the girls had bragged about how her father had bought her lots of lollipops. Hearing

she was hungry for

however, she was hungry for

lollipop in her hands, and it had

eyes shone like stars as she wrapped

she suddenly turned to Evan with a mysterious look on her face. “Uncle Evan, I’ll tell you a secret, but you can’t tell Juan, Kyle

This secret seemed to have

me. I promise

guard down and told Evan the secret she had been keeping

Nina stole some money from your bank account a while

look at Maya with an incredulous look on his

huge sum from you—enough to buy a villa for Mommy. Mommy had no

this, Evan felt

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