Female Novel
Chapter 744
The twins ran happily towards the kitchen, and from then on, Stefan could hear the clanging of kitchenutensils emerging from the kitchen mixed with the sound of children laughing.
Stefan walked around the house as if he was back in his own home. After a while, he headed towardsthe kitchen and asked the twins, who were mixing a batter. “Do you need any help?”
Abby gazed at Stefan sweetly, her eyes sparkling as brightly as stars in the sky. “Do you know how tocook, Uncle Handsome?”
The sight of Abby made Stefan feel as if his heart was soaked in sugary syrup. He smiled withoutrealizing it, then shook his head and replied, “I never knew how to cook. It’s too trivial and such a wasteof time. It’s the kind of thing best left to the servants.”
“But it won’t be the same!” argued Abby. “The servants are not your family members, so the food theymake won’t taste as good…”
Abby was a bona fide foodie, so she had high expectations for the food she ate. To her, good food notonly had to be tasty, but it also had to be prepared with love, something that servants could not do.
“Mommy always cooks delicious food,” she said. “So does Daddy Q! He makes tasty food as well!Sometimes they would cook together, and we’d all sit at the table and eat all the food! That was thehappiest time for all of us! It’s a pity that you don’t know how to cook, Uncle Handsome because thatmeans you’ll never experience that kind of happiness!”
Stefan did not expect to hear such heart-wrenching words from Abby. He shook his head helplesslyand said, “When you put it that way, it sounds like I’m the most wretched man in the world!”
“It doesn’t matter if you don’t know how to cook,” said Adie as he was creaming butter with the electricmixer. He then suggested, “You can start learning! Q did the same. He was completely useless in the
kitchen, but he learned and practiced until he became a master cook! In a short time, he managed toimpress all of us!”
Although Adie hated his evil daddy very much, he still subconsciously wished to “reform” Stefan Hunt,thinking that it would really cheer his mommy up if he could transform this broken and erratic “machine”into a brand-new useful one.
Stefan raised his eyebrows slightly and stared at the children with curiosity, commenting, “It looks likeboth of you like this Mr. Q very much! You’ve been talking about him all evening! What is that man toyou… or should I say, what is he to your mommy?”
“Of course we like him!” Adie replied with his head held high, his expression full of pride. “Q is anawesome guy who treats our mommy very well! In any case, he’s a million times better than those menwho hurt women. Right now, he’s our daddy, and he’s our mommy’s husband. He takes care of all of usevery day, and every time we’re with him, we’re all very happy!”
Adie wanted to praise Q as much as possible so that his evil daddy would feel ashamed of himself andrealize what a horrible person he had been!
Stefan’s eyes revealed a complicated mix of emotions. There was a cryptic smile on his lips as heasked, “So, are you all going to live with this Mr. Q for the rest of your lives? What if one day, youdiscover that this man isn’t as good of a guy you thought he was? What if he turns out to be a bad guy?Would you still be willing to live with him?”
“Impossible!” Abby pouted her pink lips, then earnestly added, “Daddy Q is a good man! He’s thegreatest man in the world! No one treats us better than him, so there’s no way that he’d turn out to be abad guy…”novelbin
“But what if?” Stefan pressed on, for the first time speaking in a serious tone with the children, hopingto get a definite answer from them.
“If Daddy Q turns out to be a bad guy, then we’ll… then we’ll…”
Abby grabbed the hem of her clothes. Her eyes were reddening as she was on the verge of tears. Shereally liked Daddy Q, so she simply could not entertain the thought that he might be a bad guy, muchless consider that he might leave them one day. As soon as she thought about it, her eyes and hernose stung, and she felt like crying.
“It doesn’t matter if Q turns out to be bad,” Adie reasoned in a mature and rational tone, wise beyondhis years. “We’ll just give him another chance and try to change his bad habits so he’ll transform into agood guy. Mommy, Abby, and I will never give up on him, and he will never give up on us either, so youdon’t need to worry about us!”
Stefan fell silent for a few seconds. He then smiled wanly and vaguely replied, “In that case, that mustMr. Q must be the luckiest man in the world.”