“Bring it back to Mommy. Daddy is not having dinner.”
“But why, Daddy? Mommy specially made this for you! You don’t want to let her down, do you? “
Specially made this for me?
Pfft, if not for money, she will never bother to do so!
Evan grew even more suspicious as Juan tried to persuade his father.
“Daddy isn’t hungry. Alright, go and have your dinner, the two of you.”
Evan went back to his room after speaking.
The two children sighed at their father for not appreciating the food prepared for him by their mother herself.
Mommy’s going to be devastated.
“Kyle, what should we do then?”
“Let me think. Um, how about we tell Mommy that… “ Kyle revealed to Juan an excuse he made up to cover up for his father.
Juan nodded agreeably. He also thought that it was a good plan that could mend things between their parents.
In the dining room, Nicole was surprised to see her children ushering the trolley back to the dining table with all of the food untouched.
“What’s the matter this time? Why are the dishes still on the trolley?”
“Mommy, Daddy said he doesn’t want to eat it because he thinks these dishes were sneaked out from the kitchen by us for him. He wants you to bring him the food yourself.”
“Oh, he also wants to tell you something.”
Kyle and Juan really racked their brains to come out with such an eloquent answer just to create an opportunity for Nicole to approach Evan.
Nicole thought to herself: Is Evan really such an incredulous person? He’s suspecting his own kids!
Yet, Nicole was curious as to what Evan had to say to her.
She pondered for a while longer and finally decided to send food to Evan herself. She ordered her kids, “Y’all have dinner first while I bring these dishes to Daddy.”
Kyle and Juan heard the sound of their plan working and were secretly leaping in joy. They exchanged a victorious glance with one another and joined their siblings at the dining table.
Nicole pushed the trolley back to Evan’s room.
Evan was surprised to see Nicole appearing in his doorsteps.
“Mr. Seet, you haven’t eaten dinner, right? I made this myself. Try it!”
As Nicole spoke, she placed the dishes onto the table and looked at him earnestly.
Evan knitted his brows slightly.
Do you really need money so desperately that you don’t mind sending the food to me yourself? So that I will eat it and you can charge me for it?
“I am not hungry,” Evan replied as he sat motionless at his desk.
“It’s already time for dinner. How can you not be hungry? Hurry up and eat it! It will get cold soon. “
Nicole sure is unlike herself today! The last time she asked me for money, she wasn’t this happy.
Tsk, she must be so joyful because she can already see the figure in her bank account already, right?
While waiting for Evan to start eating, Nicole suddenly remembered that Juan said Evan had something to tell her.
Thus, she asked him politely, “Mr. Seet, do you have anything to tell me?”
Evan coughed dryly and responded, “Since the dishes are colder now, will you charge me less?”
Nicole was stumped. She couldn’t wrap her head around Evan’s quirky question all of a sudden.
By the time she understood what Evan meant, he had pressed on with another question.
“These dishes are going to cost me a few ten thousand, right? I reckon you will charge ten for each peanut and ten for each stalk of the enoki mushroom too. What about the rest?”
Nicole scrunched her brows. She simply wanted to treat Evan to a good meal, but he just assumed that she was trying to extort money from him.
“Mr. Seet, I won’t charge you anything for these dishes.”
These dishes are free of charge?
Evan narrowed his pensive eyes slightly when he queried, “What do you want then?”
He did not believe that Nicole was sweet enough to prepare dinner for him without asking for anything in return.
Nicole was again speechless. Welp, I guess that two bowls of noodles had really left a scar on him, huh?
Nevertheless, Nicole still tried her best to suppress her dissatisfaction for being wronged. Instead of biting back, she reassured Evan, “Mr. Seet, I want nothing from you. Just eat as much as you want.”
Really? You want nothing at all?
Evan pondered for a while and stared at her intently.
He sniggered. “Tsk, how greedy.”
Nicole was perplexed. Didn’t I just say I want nothing from you? How is that greedy?
“What do you mean?”
“If you don’t want anything material, you want me, right? “
The way to a man’s heart was through his stomach.
Evan figured that Nicole had to be trying to entice him with food.
What a scheming woman! She’s full of lies! I need to be careful around her!
