True Love Waits

Chapter 1162 The Explosions

"What's going on? What's wrong?" Frowning, Matthew stood up once again and walked out of the meeting room.

On the other hand, Erica had no idea what her husband was doing at the moment. According to her, he would always be sitting alone at his desk, reading files or signing papers. Never had she imagined or expected him to be having an urgent meeting with some executives in the conference room.

"Listen to this!" she replied, moving her phone closer towards the kitchen.

More than ten seconds later, BANG! "What are you doing?" Matthew asked in surprise as he heard the loud noise.

"Umm... I am boiling eggs..."

Matthew felt a dull pain in his temples. "How can boiling eggs cause such a powerful explosion?"

Erica was embarrassed at this question. "Well, I don't know. Maybe I left them on the flame for too long. I mean, I even gave Ethan a bath while they were getting boiled."

"Turn off the stove first!" Matthew told her.

"O-Okay," Erica answered, flustered.

She put Ethan in the baby stroller, wrapped him in a bath towel, and made sure that he was safe before she rushed into the kitchen to turn off the stove.

'Nothing could explode anymore, right?' she was thinking. That was logical! She had only put three eggs in the pot, and three bangs had already reached her ears. What more could go wrong! However, Erica could do nothing but watch as the pot was burnt into smoke; she was too scared to approach the stove and turn it off. Very soon, the kitchen was filled with black smoke.

The smoke alarm in the kitchen began to scream loudly the next moment.

Startled, Erica stepped back immediately. 'What's happening!'

Matthew was just about to call the property management company when they called him first. "Mr. Huo, the smoke detector in your kitchen is ringing," someone from the property management company reported.

there at

"Yes, sir!"

at a rapid pace. Meanwhile, he called Owen. "The

"Yes! Mr. Huo."

quiet. Even the burnt pot was about to be taken away by the property management company. Erica was nowhere to be found. Apart from the company officials, Matthew saw only the maid who had just returned from buying groceries

him and said, "Mr. Huo, nothing serious. The pot was ruined from burning for too long and that caused smoke." However, that didn't provide

care of the young

"Is she okay?"

"Yes, sir! Everything's fine!"

deep frown disappear from Matthew's forehead and his usual impassive look came back. He looked at the manager and said, "Thank you."

"Okay."

went upstairs, climbing the stairs in a

the door, Erica was busy bathing Ethan. "I think you are just like me as a child. My father told me I used a lot of diapers as well. Every time he changed it, I would go ahead and make it dirty again. To

previously clean white sheets were now a dirty colored mess. And those stains smelled funny, like a baby's

closer, he became sure that

clean the

the entire bathroom and rebuild it from scratch right now. If he could, he would have thrown the woman and the baby in the bathroom far far

didn't sense Matthew's presence

all of a sudden?" she asked. Matthew looked at her dirty face. It was black from the

dirty face reminded Matthew of a younger Erica, whose face had been

13 years old, she had loved playing with mud with other children. That day, she had come home with her face covered in mud and

him, she had

Blair had asked her to buy a new shirt

"I was worried that

murmured, "Well I

up the villa if you try and cook a meal." Saying that, Matthew suddenly remembered that several years ago, Wesley had remarked about Erica's cooking skills in the Huo family's villa. If he recalled correctly, Wesley had mentioned that Erica had tried to make French fries and nearly blew up

it at first. He couldn't believe that there would be a person as stupid as that in the world at all. Now