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.”

her lie. The little girl secretly forked

doing. So she naturally forked the pepper and

bit it, the spicy

“Ahhh! It’s so spicy!”

spat out the pepper. It was so spicy that tears welled up in her eyes. Her face flushed at

was successful, she covered

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

smiled helplessly, and stroke

“Mommy, if you

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

on the screen of his phone, it

phone. He asked, “Are you still waiting for me

flattering yourself too much!”

happy to know that you’re waiting for

was filled

being seen through by Maurice, she was too embarrassed to say a

even recover from the embarrassment, Maurice changed the topic. “Eliana, did my grandfather force you to leave

was stunned for a moment.

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