Nicole responded with a sheepish grin because she had yet to become Evan’s legal spouse; they had yet to hold a wedding ceremony as neither of them had gotten the paperwork done. Therefore, she was unsure as to whether or not she should address Sophia as her mother-in-law.
“Mom, once we get the paperwork done, I’ll get her to address you accordingly,” said Evan.
Sophia thought about it and suggested, “Evan, is it fine for me to organize the wedding ceremony on your behalf? I’ll contact the priest and I’ll get him to conduct the wedding ceremony!”
“Sure!” Evan was delighted.
Similarly, Nicole nodded as she expressed her acknowledgment of Sophia’s suggestion.
The children were on cloud nine. They insisted on dressing up properly for their parent’s wedding.
As soon as they returned to Imperial Garden, the children began to tend to the different things that they had on their plates. As per usual, Kyle had his eyes glued to the computer, working on his hacking skills.
Occasionally, a little boy’s voice could be heard, yelling the slogan of a Taekwondo practitioner. He was none other than Juan, who had begun to practice Taekwondo again.
As one of their daughters had started dolling the mannequin up with bridal make-up, Evan asked Nicole with a bright grin, “Shall we get Nina to doll you up during our wedding ceremony?”
Nicole nodded because she had faith in their daughter’s make-up skills. After all, she had been receiving guidance from a top-notch professional make-up artist all this while.
In the meantime, Maya showed up with another bag of cookies. She placed a few of her animal dolls in front of her and gave each of the dolls two pieces of cookies, all except for the monkey.
Eventually, she stuffed the remaining three pieces of cookies into her mouth.
Staring at the monkey that wasn’t given a piece of cookie, she announced, “There’s nothing left! Why don’t you get Mr. Puppy to share his cookies with you?”
She reached for the cookies she had placed on the puppy, but before she could hand them over to the monkey, she moved her hand in another direction, swooping the cookies toward her mouth. In the end, she said apologetically, “Mr. Puppy wants me to have the cookies instead because he doesn’t like you!”
Next, she went on and finished the cookies that she had placed on the bear.
After a few minutes, Maya had devoured the entire bag of cookies. Staring at the dolls with a pleased look on her face, she complimented, “Great job! All of you are much easier to deceive than Nina and Juan!”
She chuckled and caressed the dolls that had been bullied by her merely a few minutes ago.
Nicole was at a loss for words.
Heaving a sigh of despair, Nicole observed that Maya could only deceive the dolls that didn’t possess any form of intelligence whatsoever.
She was certain that her daughter’s siblings could easily deceive her in a similar manner.
Smirking, Evan asked, “Shall we get Maya a few more younger siblings? Do you think that they’ll be cuter than Maya?”
“What do you mean? Are you indicating that Maya isn’t cute? Have you lost your mind? Maya is the cutest and the most kind-hearted little girl on Earth!”
Evan was taken aback by Nicole’s words. He leaned over and whispered, “Are you sure that you haven’t misperceived my words? Truthfully, I’m suggesting that we get Maya a few more younger siblings.”
Nicole was wordless.
Another few younger siblings? Excuse me? Isn’t four enough for us? I’m having a hard time dealing with the four of them simultaneously!
Truth be told, she deemed the existence of her four children to be perfect. She didn’t want to go through the tormenting experience that she had once gone through, during her previous labor.
“Let’s set that idea aside for the time being. It’s a topic for another day!”
As soon as she made herself clear, she brought herself out of Maya’s bedroom, leaving the man behind.
As she reached the entrance, she heaved a sigh of relief and murmured to herself, “You want me to give birth again? Hmph! No way!”
Once she finished her sentence, a hoarse voice could be heard, asking rhetorically in return, “Really?”
Turning around, Nicole was shocked to notice that Evan had shown up behind her.
“H-Huh? Shall we pretend as though I’d never said such words? Please don’t take me seriously!”
A vicious grin could be seen on Evan’s face as he dragged Nicole back toward their bedroom. He shut the door and locked it once they had entered the bedroom, behaving as though he was up to no good.
“Evan, what do you want?”
“I’m trying to see if it’s possible to get you pregnant again!”
Nicole blamed herself for her careless words. As a result, she had failed to notice Evan’s presence behind her. She regretted blurting out the things that she had in mind without giving it much thought.
