Female Novel
Chapter 2203
Aunt Neile nodded and immediately took a bag out of the shelf. She took the American ginseng out andsaid, “Yes, ginseng is good for health. The old master asked Uncle Zander to send the ginseng here.He said it's to improve your health. I was thinking of making some ginseng soup when Mr. Crawfordcame back. I'll prepare it tonight."
Luca looked at the American ginseng in Aunt Neile's hands and glanced at it. It was a wild ginseng rootover a hundred years old. Although the Crawford family was not short of supplements, Old MasterCrawford was willing to spend a lot on these.
Nina brought the kids downstairs when breakfast was almost ready.
Nina had hardly slept in for the past few days. She followed the kids' routine and would wake up oncethey were awake. Then, she would urge the kids to freshen themselves up and head downstairstogether.
Luca told Nina that she did not have to do that and she could sleep in as long as she liked. After all,she knew Nina used to sleep in a lot.
However, Nina insisted on doing so. She told Luca that she wanted to get used to such a lifestyle.
Luca knew that Nina had never stopped thinking about getting pregnant with Percy's child. It waspointless to repeat her words over and over again since Luca could not convince her. That was whyshe let Nina do whatever she wanted.
Luca served breakfast on the table and let out a sigh of relief when she saw Nina and the kids makingtheir way down the stairs.
Fortunately, Luke woke up later than Nina and the kids.
"Good morning, Ms. Luca," the three children greeted her in unison.
"Good morning," Luca smiled and replied. Then, she remembered Luke, who was still in bed. Shedecided not to wake him up. He could sleep in for a little while. Aunt Neile would keep his breakfastwarm, after all. It was fine if he had his breakfast later. Hence, she said to the children, "Breakfast'sready. Hurry up. You'll have to go to school after finishing your breakfast."
"I can't imagine how the kids can have such sumptuous breakfast every morning. I'm green with envy,"said Nina as she pinched Tommy's chubby face.
"Ms. Nina, aren't you eating breakfast too?" Tommy sat on the chair. He turned and gave Nina apuzzled look, while he took the croissant Luca handed to him.
"Although I'm staying here at the moment, I'm probably going back soon," Nina answered thoughtfullyand gave Luca a meaningful look.
However, Luca was busy helping the kids with the croissants and did not notice that Nina was givingher that meaningful look. Luca made an assumption and asked, "Did Mr. Mallory find any clues as towho was the one who gave the information to the press yet?"
"I'm not sure. He's been on a business trip for the past few days. I'm guessing his subordinates arelooking into it. But I'm not sure if there's any news about it. I'll have to go back home when he comesback whether he finds the culprit or not. I can't stay here all day and disturb you," answered Nina. Shepicked up the croissant that smelled good and thought that Luca was the one who made the croissant.
Nina stared at the croissant as it reminded her of Bianca's culinary skills.novelbin
Before something happened to Bianca, her culinary skills were good. As Bianca's friend, Nina felthappy to be able to taste Bianca's homemade food often.
Bianca thought Nina was too skinny at that time. She would prepare all kinds of scrumptious food forNina to make her gain weight.
However, Nina was troubled and having a tough time at that time. She barely gained any weight.
"There's no way Mr. Mallory can look after you if he travels so often. When you go back home, feel freeto come over and spend a few nights here when Mr. Mallory isn't in A City. The guest room is alwayshere for you." After Luca helped the kids with their breakfast, she sat down and had her breakfast.
Nina was moved and asked, "Really?"
"Of course. Mr. Crawford and Mr. Mallory are close friends. He promised to help you back then, so he'ssurely going to lend a hand in the future too. What matters the most now is to find out the person whospilled the tea," replied Luca. The hot topic about Nina in the news articles and forum discussionsseemed to be calming down.
Perhaps the people had enough of the story, the reporters had nothing new to write about, or Percyhad asked someone to cover up the news.
However, it did not matter what had happened as long as things were cooling down. It was good forNina.
Still, people had memories. It was the same with the Mallory family.
They would remember what Nina had gone through before. Even though the dust had settled, theywould bring this up again once there was any big news about Nina and Percy.
There was no way they could make people forget about this. That was why Nina would have to make itthrough all these in the future.
Nina getting married or getting pregnant would jog the people's memories again and again.
Luca felt sorry for her.
Fortunately, Percy's love was able to make Nina stay positive.
Nina smiled and turned to look at Aunt Neile. "Aunt Neile, please keep the blanket and pillow for meafter I move out. I may be back to spend a few nights here."
"Of course, I'll clean them and keep them for you. I'll be waiting for you to come over," Aunt Neilereplied cheerfully.
Although Nina had a miserable past, Aunt Neile was pretty fond of this positive and friendly womanafter spending time with her for the past few days.
After they finished eating breakfast, Luke was still asleep. There was no sign of him coming downstairs.
Luca did not say anything. She brought the kids to the door, and Uncle Zander's car was alreadywaiting there.
Lanie's eyes were sharp enough to notice the Mercedes car in the parking lot when they walked to thegarden. He pointed at the car and said, “That car wasn't here yesterday."
Lanie was looking at Luca when he said that.
Luca had to admit that Lanie had a keen observation. He had Luke's genes, indeed. He was able tonotice there was another car in the parking lot.
There were four to five cars parking in the villa's parking lot. It was difficult to notice if one was missingor if there was another car parking there.
Luca nodded and said, "Your daddy came back."
"Daddy's back?" Tommy jumped for joy as he was happy to hear that, "Is he upstairs?"
"Yes. He looks tired and he's still asleep. I was afraid that you might wake him up. That's why I didn'ttell you. Off you go. You can meet Daddy after school, okay?" replied Luca. She did not tell the kids asshe wanted Luke to rest a little longer.
The three kids nodded.
Rainie secretly thought that this proved that their mother cared for their father.
Luca turned around and left after she made sure the kids got into Uncle Zander's car. She did not headto the living room. Instead, she got into the car and left the villa.
Marcos told her that there was no need to entertain them today, so Luca was going to go back to TCorporation for work.
In the living room.
Nina sat on the sofa in the living room watching the news after she finished her breakfast.
Aunt Neile was getting ready to go out to get some groceries after cleaning up. After all, she could getfresh ingredients if she went to the supermarket earlier.
Noises were coming from the stairs. Nina tilted her head and watched Luke make his way down thestairs. There was not even a surprised look on her face.
Luke met Nina's gaze. He put his hands in his pockets without saying a word.
The two of them exchanged glances for half a minute. At last, Nina spoke in a lazy tone, "Yourbreakfast should be in the kitchen. They kept it warm for you."
"Okay." Luke was about to head to the kitchen.
"Luca and Aunt Neile didn't tell me that you were back, but do you know why I'm not surprised to seeyou here?" Nina picked up the remote control and turned off the TV. She rose to her feet as her gazefell on Luke.