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.

hear her reply. It was said that pregnant women were always hungry and needed to eat more. Not only

told you: I'm

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

couldn't help but drool. "I want 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. Heartburn was common during pregnancy, especially as the baby grew bigger. So he tried his best to make her feast on some

replied in a quiet voice, "Then how about noodles with seafood?" Then she looked up at the man and added, "That's

said, "Well, what

daughters that want that type of stuff,

doesn't want to eat the noodles,

paused at the door. "Come down in

face at the man's back and muttered in a quiet voice, "Don't try to buy me off with a bowl of noodles and seafood. I'm not dropping that suit

On the first floor

downstairs, he called someone up. "Yes. It's 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, but it was said that pregnant women

of her room. Seeing that Matthew was making a fruit platter by himself, she quickly came over and asked, "Mr. Huo, what are

it."

Just clean

hesitated for a moment and guessed that he might want to prepare a midnight snack for his wife

the woman making

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

not running, I'm taking it easy!" She used to fly 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 them far more slowly, and used

say anything more. He tore open a piece of Spanish ham meat. He was afraid that Erica would

sitting on the dining room table. While eating the fruits, Erica played with her phone and sent a message to Watkins.

she would

looked at the man walking toward the door in confusion. Who would be

talk to the man, sign something, and come back in with

we were out of

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

have seafood in the fridge, why did he