The Woman From Hell

Chapter 1684

I hurriedly answered the phone.

"Sorry for disturbing you. The two kids were so excited today that they didn’t have a proper lunch, so I brought them out of the park ahead of time because I was worried. I'm at Roses Manor now. I thought that since you're coming to pick Munchkin up, perhaps you could drop by earlier and have dinner with us?"

Theo came into the room while he was still talking. He was about to say something to me but remained silent when he saw I was on the phone.

A confused look appeared in his eyes as he walked over to me.

I did not know how I should hang up on Fred, so I put him on loudspeaker instead.'

It’s okay, you can take the kids to have their dinner. I still have several things to take care of here. I'll drop by when I'm done."

An impatient look immediately appeared on Theo's face when he saw Fred's name, and he would have walked right back out the door if I had not reached out to him.

In the end, he sat beside me and wrapped an arm around my shoulders.

"Don't worry, Wanda. We’re only having dinner. I won't do anything to you. Besides, I decided to invite you because the traffic will be bad during dinner hours. I don't mean anything else by it. Please don't take it personally."

phrased his sentences made it sound like I was

baffled all of a

Theo, and he nodded, signaling that I could

then. Theo and I will be there shortly.

of them were stunned when they heard me

other end of the line fell silent, and Theo turned his head around

didn't think things through and only made a reservation for four people. It might pose a problem if

before Theo and I even had the chance to

was quite angry

out today, so I had to rush toget seats at

but I could not help but

that's the case, Theo and I will come by later. Make sure the kids

whining. He hasn't seen you the whole day and keeps saying he wished his mommy was with him.’’ Fred began playing the family card." Or I

line fell

voice rang out." Mommy?" “Sorry darling, but Mommy can't have dinner with you today. Daddy just got a very important

understood what

the same thing. So, I’ve decided to stay back and make sure

you carry out your surveillance task