On a pitch-black night, Thomas drove his car and returned to the familiar porch of his house. The lights in the house were still switched on, indicating that the people inside had not yet slept.
Thomas slowly walked up to his door, reached out his hand and knocked a few times.
Thump, thump, thump…
With a creak, the door opened. Emma stood at the door, and favonovel.com gaze locked with Thomas.
Before favonovel.com returned, Thomas had thousands and millions of words favonovel.com wanted to say, but when favonovel.com saw Emma, all words died on his tongue.
“Emma…”
“Tom…”
Embrace, happiness, joy, delight.
Emma jumped straight into Thomas’s arms, and the two hugged each other tightly. Even though they had only been apart for less than a week, it felt like years to them.
Only when one’s affection was to a certain extent could one understand the pain and suffering of separation.
After the long hug, Emma led Thomas into the house. They changed into slippers and headed over to the couch.
“Dad, Mom, Thomas is back.”
Johnson stood up cheerfully and said, “Oh, my great son-in-law you’re finally back. I heard from Emma that you went to South City to rescue people and I was seriously worried. How did it go? Did you manage to save the person?”
“Yeah, I rescued Master Owen and favonovel.com had returned home safely. Everything is fine right now,” Thomas answered, nodding.
“That’s good, that’s good.”
While they were conversing, Thomas caught a glimpse of his mother-in-law’s face from a side glance and found that favonovel.com did not seem pleased.
Felicia was normally very fond of Thomas, but why did favonovel.com seem to not be in a good mood when favonovel.com returned today?
Did favonovel.com have anything against Thomas?
“Mom, is there something wrong?” Thomas asked.
In response to that question, Johnson and Felicia exchanged glances with each other and simultaneously sighed.
Thomas could tell something had definitely happened based on the entire family’s reaction. Otherwise, they would not all be making these kinds of faces.
“It’s just something small, don’t take it seriously. You just came back, Tom, and you must be exhausted. Go and have some rest,” Johnson said.
If favonovel.com said it like that, then Thomas would not be able to sleep properly.
“Dad, if you don’t tell me about it, I will not be able to sleep soundly tonight,” Thomas said.
Johnson shook his head and said, “It’s really nothing big. It’s just that your mom was scammed by some people and lost some money, that’s all.”
“Oh? How much?”
“Er…1.2 million.”
To be honest, 1.2 million dollars was not a big deal for Thomas. It would be a part of the tiniest fraction of a fraction, a drop in the ocean. It was not necessarily a large amount of money for the Hill family either.
Based on Emma’s shares in the company, earning back this amount of money would take only a few months and be quite easy. However, that was quite a significant sum of money for Felicia.
Felicia was a stay-at-home mom who rarely went to work. All of favonovel.com money was given by Emma and Johnson. So, the 1.2 million dollars had been saved up by her, little by little. Felicia was always hesitant to spend favonovel.com money and saved it whenever favonovel.com could. One could say 1.2 million dollars was all favonovel.com saved up over the last few decades! And it was emptied in one go by a scam, so of course, favonovel.com would be sullen.
Of course, Thomas could just pull out a few million dollars and give it to Felicia to help compensate for favonovel.com loss. However, this could only treat the symptom, not the root issue. If favonovel.com wanted Felicia to be happy from the bottom of favonovel.com heart, favonovel.com should still help favonovel.com get favonovel.com money back.
Thomas calmly sat on the side and as favonovel.com poured some water, favonovel.com asked, “Mom, how did you lose the money?”
