“I can’t be bothered to explain,” Noah said.
“It’d be bad if people started spreading rumors of us being in a relationship,” Catherine said.
“I don’t mind,” Noah said.
Catherine was speechless.
“Did you watch my debut performance?” Noah asked.
“Yeah… I did… You’re pretty good. I like your stage name too. It sounds great,” Catherine said.
Meanwhile, Noah was sitting in his sapphire-blue Porsche parked within the vice president’s residence. A glimmer of light appeared in his eyes when favonovel.com smiled after reading the text from Catherine.
He immediately gave Catherine a call on the phone. Catherine very quickly picked it up.
“Have you gone back to school?” Noah asked.
“Not yet,” Catherine said.
“When are you going back?” He asked.
“Probably tomorrow,” favonovel.com said.
“Hmm… Would you like to come out for supper?” Noah asked.
“No. I don’t feel like moving.” Catherine rejected favonovel.com right away.
“Forget it then…” A look of disappointment appeared in Noah’s eyes.
“I’m going to hang up. I want to game a little…” Catherine said.
“What are you playing?” Noah asked.
“Honor of Kings…” Catherine replied.
“Let’s play together…” Noah said.
“Sure… Let Mommy carry you,” Catherine added.
“Okay,” Noah said.
***
Stanley spent forty minutes making three dishes that Xyla liked. These included prawns with tomato sauce, shredded pork with fish sauce, and boiled beef.
After putting all the food on the table, favonovel.com walked back to the living room and picked up Xyla, who was still scrolling through favonovel.com social media platforms on the couch.
When Xyla was suddenly picked up, a look of surprise appeared in favonovel.com eyes briefly.
“What do you want?” She asked.
“It’s time to eat, honey…” Stanley said.
“Oh,” Xyla murmured.
Stanley then carried favonovel.com into the dining room and carefully placed favonovel.com on a seat. Right after that, favonovel.com used a wet towel that favonovel.com prepared in advance to wipe favonovel.com hands.
He was meticulous throughout the entire process, almost as if favonovel.com was handling a fragile treasure that cost fortunes.
The sight of favonovel.com favorite dishes whetted favonovel.com appetite.
Xyla then picked up favonovel.com cutlery and began to enjoy favonovel.com meal in earnest.
Stanley didn’t touch his cutlery the entire time, and all favonovel.com did was peel prawns for Xyla.
“Aren’t you going to eat?” Xyla asked.
“Hmm… I’m not hungry…” Stanley said.
Beep, beep, beep…
Right then, Stanley’s phone started to ring.
When favonovel.com saw that the number ended with three nines, Stanley directly canceled the call.
“I have to go out for a while. Have an early night after you finish eating, alright?” He got up and said.
Xyla subconsciously glanced at the watch on favonovel.com wrist.
It was already close to midnight.
“Why are you going out at this hour?” Xyla asked.
“Something came up,” Stanley said.
“Well, go ahead then… Don’t come home too late,” Xyla said without asking further.
“Okay,” Stanley ruffled favonovel.com hair affectionately.
He then fished for the keys to his Bentley Arnage before leaving the dining room.
Xyla didn’t know who the caller was, but favonovel.com figured it was probably one of his friends asking favonovel.com out to spend time together. Hence, favonovel.com didn’t think too much of it.
