Chapter 46
Mirabella had barely stepped into the living room when Delilah, who was busy organizing boxes, looked up and almost jumped out of her skin. The ledger she was holding clattered onto the floor.
“Mira… what brings you back so soon? Weren’t you supposed to visit Mrs. Catherine?” Delilah asked, her face a picture of surprise. Quickly, she bent down to retrieve the ledger and tossed it back into the box without a second thought.
Beside her. Shawn, calculator in one hand and spectacles perched on his nose, set down his device. He glanced at his wristwatch before asking with mild confusion, “Honey, you haven’t been gone for more than a few hours. Did you forget something?”
Mirabella cast a nonchalant glance at the box by Delilah’s feet and replied casually, “She had company, so I came back.”
“Oh, I see…” Delilah said, the matter seemingly settled in her mind.
After a brief pause, she continued without much thought, “You haven’t eaten yet, have you? Your dad and I thought you wouldn’t be back for lunch, so we haven’t prepared anything. Just give me a moment to put these away, and I’ll start on some food.”
quickly tossed a few more ledgers onto the coffee table into the box, and Shawn’s calculator followed suit. “Shawn, can you take this stuff back
thing.” Shawn replied, sliding off his glasses and hoisting the box as he headed upstairs.
figure, her thoughts a mystery. She followed Delilah into the kitchen, lending a hand with the vegetables.
of a sudden?” she
clean pairs of shoes by the shoe cabinet,” Mirabella
tidying up the shoe cabinet this morning and got distracted by your dad. Must’ve forgotten to
“Oh, and Mom, I ran into a group of men in
quite intimidating. Kind of like those debt collectors you hear about, you know? We don’t have any debts, do we?” Mirabella’s gaze was serious as she looked at
sense of guilt under her daughter’s scrutiny, Delilah quickly shook her head. “No, we don’t owe anyone anything!” But after a few
they didn’t seem like good news,”
throat tightened around the words. ‘They’re just from the company’s finance department, not debt collectors. She swallowed them back down.
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