As night fell, Eliana thought of her promise to Maurice this morning. So she went to the kitchen and unwittingly prepared a sumptuous dinner. After setting up the table, she looked at it only to realize that tonight there seemed to be a feast.

Time quietly passed as Eliana kept track of the time. She patiently watched as the clock’s hour hand slowly ran from six o’clock to eight o’clock. Now it was almost nine o’clock, but there was no sign of Maurice coming home yet.

“Mommy, when is Mr. Moran coming? I’m starving,” Aileen complained, sitting on the sofa and rubbing her belly with her little hands. When she stared at the big meal on the table, her mouth watered, and she almost drooled.

“I think that bad guy doesn’t want to come, so he stands us up.”

Adrian had always disliked Maurice. And now that Maurice was late, he disdained Maurice even more.

Eliana looked at the door disappointedly. Then she gradually stopped looking forward to Maurice’s coming.

It was too late now. She didn’t want to wait any longer and starve her children.

“Okay, kids. Since you’re hungry, let’s eat first.”

As soon as Adrian and Aileen sat at the table, they devoured the food. Eliana, on the other hand, lost her appetite when she looked at the table full of food.

Her mind was obviously not on eating but on something else. She glanced at her phone on the table every now and then as if waiting for a call or text from someone.

When Aileen noticed Eliana’s abnormality, she put down her fork and knife, looked at Eliana with concern, and asked, “Mommy, are you thinking of Mr. Moran?”

Eliana only came back to her senses after Aileen called her out several times. She answered Aileen’s question guiltily, “Of course not. I am not thinking of him.”

lie. The little girl secretly forked a piece of pepper and

trance, totally unaware of what Aileen was doing. So she naturally forked the pepper

as she bit it, the spicy taste

“Ahhh! It’s so spicy!”

pepper. It was so spicy that tears welled up in

prank was successful, she covered

of getting angry, Eliana was amused. “You… You are such a naughty

smiled helplessly, and stroke Aileen’s

he finally said, “Mommy,

sense. So she plucked up her courage, picked up her phone, and called

the Moran family’s house. When he saw Eliana’s name flashing on the screen of his

the phone. He asked, “Are you still waiting for me to come home for

not! You’re flattering yourself too much!” Eliana quickly

happy to know that you’re

filled with obvious

seen through by Maurice, she

recover from the embarrassment, Maurice changed the topic. “Eliana, did my grandfather force

a moment. How did Maurice know about

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