Much to her surprise, Stanley didn’t bring up the incident with the figurines and the keyboards. Sophia was actually feeling a little embarrassed now.
“I’m sorry that Nate broke your stuff last time. Why don’t I get his father to pay you back with some money?”
Stanley didn’t seem to care about that. “Nah, it’s just some figurines and keyboards anyway; I sent them back to the manufacturers for repair and they sent the stuff back as good as new. Just relax and come over; I locked the door this time,” he said.
Stanley had gotten injured while saving her after all. If he hadn’t been there, she might have died; yet, Nathan destroyed his precious collection. Sophia had no choice but to accept his request and said, “Just rest well. I’ll come see you tomorrow.”
“I want duck soup with carrots. And the duck’s got to be free-range!” Stanley didn’t forget to place an order for tomorrow’s meal.
The next morning, Sophia woke up early to make a pot of soup before bringing it over to Stanley’s place.
Nathan gorged himself during lunch, eating more than he normally would during mealtime. He naively thought that the more he ate, the less Stanley would have. Once lunch was over, he warily watched as Sophia transferred the duck soup to a thermal container. It seemed like she was about to head to Stanley’s place.
He hastily called Michael to report the current battle situation.
Michael frowned as he listened to the call. “You have to hang in there, son. I’ll be back in a few more days,” he said heavily. “The enemy is staging a strong offense, and the battle depends on you with my absence. Rest assured, I will shred him to pieces when I come back later!”
Nathan nodded in certainty and responded, “Right.”
Sophia belonged to him and Michael; they definitely couldn’t let Stanley have her!
Both father and son—who usually had close to zero interactions with each other—stood together on the same battlefront for the first time in order to protect the completeness of their three-member family.
Moreover, Nathan didn’t want to be raised in a single-parent household.
Michael continued, “Remember, you’re a mischievous kid—mischievous kids are unafraid of anything! When you’re at Stanley’s home, act as you see fit!”
Nathan nodded again. “Yes!”
determination after he hung
are
the military compound in their car and stepped into Stanley’s home. The moment they entered, they saw Stanley lying weakly on his bed with a leg
hand, looking pitiful as he did so. “Sophia, so you still
“Knock it off, Sundae Cone. I’m already married;
going to believe that you’re really married! Even if you
this time; with the exception of the washroom, all
Hmph!
mischievous kids were not
searched the place for a weakness he could exploit. At last, he caught sight of
extract her hand from Stanley’s grip
bits as he exclaimed, “You’re too
Sophia’s lips twitched; she
boomed from outside of the room—chaos had ensued outside. The housekeeper hastily scurried out and reported back
jumped out of his
dog was howling from the strikes, and a cat with a head nearly plucked bald hid up on a shelf. It was shedding season, so fur was flying everywhere; Nathan’s entire body was covered with cat and
what are
zoomed over to grab Nathan. He looked at her innocently and said, “I got bored,
broken its leg. Nathan still had a clump of cat fur tightly clenched in
poor, howling husky and his partially bald cat, he was so heartbroken that he
pets. He nearly cried when he saw that Sunset’s head was nearly bald from
like they were his own sons; he couldn’t even bear to pluck a single hair off them, yet Nathan had yanked his cat’s fur until the cat
was killing him
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