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.”

you need help, just holler for us! We’ll

“Alright.”

boys ran happily to the toy

his shoes, Maya quickly put down her chopsticks and hopped off the chair. Toddling towards him on her stubby legs, she exclaimed, “Uncle Evan, can you

and looked at her. “Why do you want to

his ear. Evan looked

buy me one of those huge cartoon lollipops, I’ll tell you an even

“Okay, let’s go!”

that Maya was merely having the munchies, Evan decided to bring her along. It was quite unlikely that she really had a big secret to tell

cartoon lollipop that Evan had bought her,

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

one, she was hungry for

was hungry

in her hands, and it had been given to her by

she wrapped her fat fingers

mysterious look on her face. “Uncle Evan, I’ll tell you a secret, but you

lightly. This secret seemed to have something to

me. I promise not to tell

let her guard down and told Evan the secret

stole some money from your bank account a

Evan turned to look at Maya with an incredulous look on

sum from you—enough to buy a villa for Mommy. Mommy had no clue about it, so they lied and told her that they borrowed the

this, Evan felt even more

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