Chapter 130

Veronica turned to look at Matthew with a meaningful look in her eyes. She lied, “I don’t know about that. Why don’t you call him and ask him where he is instead?”

Elizabeth sounded amiable. “Sigh, alright, alright. As for you, when will you be free to keep me company, young lady? It’s been a month since you saved me last time, yet I only got to meet you the day before yesterday. What makes you so busy every day?”

“In that case, I’ll go keep you company tonight, okay?”

“Okay, okay! It’s settled then.”

“Uh-huh. See you tonight, Grandma.” When Veronica hung up, she only felt that Elizabeth was somewhat strange today.

 

Noticing that something was wrong with Veronica’s expression, Matthew asked, “What’s wrong?”

Veronica shook her head without speaking while quietly waiting for Elizabeth to call Matthew. However, after waiting for a while, she didn’t see Matthew getting a phone call from ElizabethDidnshe say she was looking for MatthewWhy didnshe contact himShe couldn’t help but ask, “Uh, is your phone’s battery still good?” Elizabeth was supposed to have called Matthew if his phone hadn’t run out of juice.

 

“Yeah, it is.”

“Oh…” Veronica hung her head slightly and was deep in thought. Suddenly, she recalled something and asked, “When is Grandma’s birthday?”

“A month and six days later.”

“Which means, August 24.”

given her. Then, she recalled Elizabeth telling her that she would be celebrating her birthday in

 said the wrong thing last time? Also, when I went to the Kings Residence the day before yesterday, Grandma said we

 this up

that something was wrong with the look on Veronica’s face,

Matthew looked with his eyes full of worry, she said, “Never mind, it’s nothing. Grandma was looking for you just now, so call her.” She

to be alright; after exchanging a few pleasantries with him, she hung up. When the car slowly reached the downtown area, Matthew suddenly asked, “What are you going

on the roadside, she said to Thomas,

before turning the steering wheel and pulling over to the side of

to Matthew. Then, she opened the car door and went

carrying the breakfast bags. After getting back into the car, she closed the car door. “Here’s your breakfast.” She handed a serving of breakfast to Matthew before handing another to Thomas. “You must be

Matthew looked at the egg in the white transparent plastic bag. The egg was already peeled, and its surface was covered in brown marble-like patterns. Aside

milk costs two bucks. I even bought a tea egg for Mr. Ritter. I’ve bought four dollars’ worth of breakfast for you both, which is good enough.” Veronica

sat in the driver’s seat while looking at the

rearview mirror, he saw the latter looking down at the tea egg for a long time without laying a hand’ on it. “Young Master Matthew, we’ll arrive at One Piece Restaurant if we turn the corner ahead of us. Do you want to have breakfast there?” Having worked for Matthew for a dozen years, he knew very well that Matthew never ate street foods and found them unhygienic and lacking in nutritional value, so he suggested that they

up, and she immediately snatched away the breakfast that Matthew had stared at for a long time. “If you had said earlier that we’re going to have breakfast at One Piece Restaurant, I wouldn’t have had to treat you

exotic food and different styles of breakfasts that were rich in nutrition. However, he never ate street foods like these. Despite his inner aversion, he stretched out his hand and took back

took a bite of the tea egg, and chewed

even more appetizing and tasted even better than the tasteless boiled eggs that he usually

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