Maya was so pleased to see Nina helping her that her eyes gleamed with joy. “Nina, thanks for helping me. I’ll treat you to the most delicious food you’ve ever tasted in your life during the conference!”
“Sure!”
Nina nodded at Maya distractedly, thinking that she might already be living in K Nation by the time Maya’s Gourmet Conference was held. I will choose Chris over delicious food any day!
“Daddy, please say yes since even Nina is on my side now.” Maya faced her adorable and chubby face to Evan and pleaded coquettishly, “Daddy, as the best Daddy in the whole world, I know you will help me, won’t you?”
At last, Evan succumbed to her tactic and nodded. “Fine, I’ll help you. Just give me some time to arrange the schedule, and I’ll tell you once I fix the time. Meanwhile, you can make use of the time to prepare for the event. I’d not like to see any glitches and hiccups during the event.”
“Daddy, please don’t worry about that. I promise you that the event will be error-free.”
After saying that, Maya served Evan a piece of cake with reverence. “Daddy, please give the cake a try.”
She served Nicole and Nina each too. “Mommy, Nina, please taste it and then tell me what you think. Next time, I will make the cake according to your preferences.”
Nicole took a bite of the cake with a smile. Just like how Maya described the cake just now, the texture was soft and velvety, and the sweetness was just nice. Nicole also adored the strong milky flavor that came with each bite of the cake.
“Maya, I must say this cake really tastes great! You’re amazing!”
“Not bad. Your cake actually tastes even better than those made by that famous dessert store in Y City. Daddy thinks you’re incredible too!”
At the mention of the dessert store in Y City, Maya suddenly pursed her lips and looked aggrieved. “I still remember how much I used to crave for the cakes sold at that famous dessert store in Y City when I was little. However, they were too pricey and Mommy couldn’t afford to buy one for me. When Mommy was working at Daddy’s company as a translator, Mommy brought a mousse cake from that dessert store home one day. I can still vividly remember how the cake looked like – it was decorated with flowers made of cream. Yet, the cake tasted so horrible that I nearly cried after taking one bite… Daddy, I knew that awful cake was a prank you played on Mommy, but Nina and I ended up bearing the brunt of it! I even had a nightmare of having a heap of that cake chasing after me, chanting for me to eat them!”
Listening to Maya as she narrated a story of the past, a faint smile appeared on Nicole’s face. She turned to Evan and verified Maya’s story. “That really happened. To avenge their suffering, I pulled a prank back on you later on. You caught me red-handed when I was smashing your stuff in your room, and you demanded several hundred thousand from me as compensation. Sometime after that, I moved to a slum together with the kids because I was too cash-strapped.”
Nina suddenly stared at Evan and questioned him, “Daddy, if you knew we were your daughters at that time, would you still separate Mommy from us?”
Would I? Evan felt conflicted as he reminisced about his past.
However, he had no definite answer to that either. There was a chance that he would still do the same thing. After all, he had no romantic feelings toward Nicole at that time. As a man of principle, he would never marry someone whom he did not love.
But then again, the kids successfully pestered him to allow Nicole to stay so that she could take care of them later on. Ever since then, he slowly saw the good side of Nicole and fell in love with her in the end.
“I can’t give you a sure answer based on a hypothesis. What I can say for sure is that I hope all of us won’t be separated from each other in the future. So, the two of you have to promise me that you won’t marry someone who lives too far away from us. Daddy and Mommy would love to visit you whenever we like, alright?”
Don’t marry someone who lives too far away from them?
Nina’s heart lurched when she heard that because she was going to do something really similar soon. Daddy, I’m afraid I won’t be able to fulfill that request of yours!
