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.”

help, just holler for us! We’ll go and play

“Alright.”

two boys ran happily to

his shoes, Maya quickly put down her chopsticks and hopped off the chair. Toddling towards him on her stubby legs, she

her. “Why

bit her lip and whispered something into his ear. Evan looked at her in shock.

Evan, if you buy me one of those huge cartoon lollipops, I’ll tell you

“Okay, let’s go!”

along. It was quite unlikely that she really had a

Maya gazed at the huge cartoon

girls had bragged about how her father had bought her lots of lollipops. Hearing this, Maya had felt so hungry that she started to

she was hungry for a

however, she was hungry for

a lollipop in her hands, and it had been given to her

stars as she wrapped her fat fingers tightly around

turned to Evan with a mysterious look on her face. “Uncle Evan, I’ll tell you

smiled lightly. This secret seemed to have something to do with the

solemnly. “Alright, tell me. I promise not

this, Maya finally let her guard down and told Evan the secret she had been keeping for so

stole some money from your bank account

Maya with an incredulous look

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

Evan felt

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