True Love Waits

Chapter 1306 Your Sons Want To Eat

"No! You're on my side. If you call Matthew, you're just admitting he's better than you. So will you help me or not?" Erica demanded.

"Of course I will. I'm busy these days and won't go to Y City soon, though. I'll make a few calls. If it doesn't work, maybe you can talk to Dad," Gifford answered. But helping Erica was a little tougher than it seemed on the surface. He was glad to help, but he needed help himself to pull it off.

He had no connections in the court system. He knew people who did, so he had to call them and see if they could pitch in.

'Why does Rika always come to me for help? Dad's better set up for that than I am. Maybe she figures Dad would turn her down, anyway, ' he thought.

"I won't call Dad. He always sides with Matthew. He won't help me..." Suddenly, Matthew opened the door. He was silent as usual, so Erica had no clue he was there. His face darkened as he heard what she said. "Thanks Gifford, you're awesome!"

"Yeah, yeah. I know. I'll see what I can do!" Gifford couldn't stand Erica's tone, as if he was the one who bullied her.

The next moment, before Erica could say anything else, her phone was wrenched from her hand. "Mind your own business, Gifford. Just pretend Rika never called you. I'll fix this," Matthew said into her phone. "Matthew, you're there too? Rika said you are holding off her case against Phoebe Su. What happened?" 'So I wonder if the rumors are true. Does Matthew still carry a torch for Phoebe?' he wondered. 'Nah. Couldn't be.'

Matthew held the phone high, foiling Erica's attempts to retrieve it. He put a hand out to keep her away, put the phone back to his ear, and said, "Nothing serious. She's just being a bad girl again." "Oh..." Gifford believed it without a doubt. He knew better than anyone else what kind of trouble Erica could cause. "Remember, Rika's pregnant. You need to be a little more patient. She'll be fine after you calm her down some!"

"Don't worry. I will. Have a good night."

He hung up the phone.

Erica shouted, "Gifford!"

But it was too late. She could clearly see the screen of her cellphone. It showed the call was disconnected.

'Why did Matthew have to come in just when I managed to get Gifford to say yes? All that trouble for nothing,' she cried inwardly.

Placing her phone on the bedside table, Matthew asked gently, "Are you hungry?"

"I've lost my appetite!" She turned her head away in a fit of pique.

what do you want to eat?" he asked, as if he didn't hear her reply. It was said that pregnant women were always hungry and needed to eat more. Not only that, sometimes they did strange things like eat rocks, chalk, or dirt. Those odd cravings were caused by

you:

But you still have tons of choices-noodles with seafood, wontons with chicken filling, steak, shrimp dumplings..." He rattled off a

and Erica couldn't help but drool. "I want spicy

"No spicy and sour rice noodles. I already said that." Every time she ate spicy and sour rice noodles, she would put a lot of pepper in them.

at the man and added, "That's what your sons

a faint smile, Matthew said, "Well, what if you're

type of stuff, not me! Why the

nodded. 'So Rika doesn't want to eat the noodles, but our sons or

man left the room, and paused at the door. "Come down in twenty minutes. Dinner should be ready then," he said, and

a quiet voice, "Don't try to buy me off

On the first floor

me. Send some red shrimps, abalones and scallops. Enough for two people. They must be fresh." Erica also liked eating crab. He had wanted to order some,

of her room. Seeing that Matthew was making a fruit platter by himself, she quickly came over and

it."

Just clean the

might want to prepare a midnight snack for his wife himself. She nodded and said,

making her way downstairs, Matthew said, "Why

she had first gotten pregnant, she almost had a miscarriage because she rushed up and down the stairs. When Matthew saw her walk downstairs, fear loomed in the back of

down those stairs, taking more than one step at a time, jumping over several of them on the way down. Since she was pregnant, she took

afraid that Erica would fall back into her old patterns, forgetting that she was carrying babies whose

the fruits, Erica played with her phone and sent a message

she would cry and threaten to

throughout the house. Erica looked at the man walking toward the door

and come back in with a delicately packaged box, she couldn't help

know we were out

was frozen seafood in their fridge, but she was pregnant, so she

in the fridge, why did