There and then, Evan hung up the phone again.

Susan’s expression stiffened. Why did Evan sound so disgusted with me just now? How could he treat me like this?

 
 

“Ms. Susan, can we eat yet?” Maya asked timidly as her stomach growled in hunger.

Susan quickly regained her senses and looked at the children with a forced smile on her face. “Yes, you can,” she replied.

The children then started devouring their dinner.

 

Susan looked at them as she continued to think about Evan’s attitude toward her. The more she pondered over it, the more uncomfortable she felt.

 

Why?

Why is Evan treating me this way?

 

All of a sudden, Maya dropped one of her bamboo chopsticks on the ground.

“Ms. Susan, go and fetch Maya a fresh pair of chopsticks,” instructed Nina as she looked at Susan arrogantly.

 

Susan’s face darkened. Damned kid! How could she dare to order me around?

can’t stop herself from

for you,” muttered Susan as she glanced at the children with a forced smile

sense of delight when Susan got up and went to the kitchen.

overcome with worry because she caught a sinister look in Susan’s

begin to abuse me

anxiously as

her meal, her worries soon turned into

her into the bedroom under the pretext that she wanted to tell her a

had acted as though he was disgusted by her and how Nicole was a stumbling block even after her death, she shot

thumping rapidly at that very moment. Her hands fidgeted restlessly and her eyes welled up

 

wrong. I shouldn’t have dropped my chopsticks on the floor,”

her this way. She thought that Susan was angry

lips as she bent down to pinch Maya’s chubby cheeks. “You stupid pig! Even pigs

couldn’t help but question herself at Susan’s words. Ms. Susan called me a stupid pig, but Mommy always

she recalled how gentle and loving Nicole was toward her, tears started rolling down her cheeks

off abruptly by Susan who warned her fiercely, “What

shut her

pinched her twice on her body before she walked up

she trembled with fear and begged,

had told her not to call if

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