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.

more. Not only that, sometimes they did strange things like eat rocks, chalk, or dirt. Those odd cravings were caused by a nutrient deficiency, so he

told you: I'm not

heard anything she said, Matthew took off his suit jacket and hung it in the closet. "You can't eat spicy and sour rice noodles. But you still have tons of choices-noodles with seafood, wontons with chicken filling, steak, shrimp dumplings..." He rattled off a long list of dishes, including Western food as well

drool. "I want spicy and

she would put a lot of pepper in

seafood?" Then she looked up at the man and added, "That's what your sons are clamoring for, not me!" She was still angry. How could she want any food

said, "Well,

it's your daughters that want that type

doesn't want to eat the noodles, but our

and paused at the door. "Come down in twenty

voice, "Don't try to buy me

On the first floor

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

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

it."

thanks. Just clean the kitchen

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

went downstairs. Seeing the woman making her way downstairs, Matthew said, "Why don't you

almost had a miscarriage because she rushed up and down the stairs. When Matthew saw

step at a time, jumping over several of them on the way down. Since she

meat. He was afraid that Erica would fall back into her old patterns, forgetting that she was carrying babies whose safety she was responsible

eating the fruits, Erica played with her phone and

it didn't work, she would cry and threaten to kill herself in front

doorbell rang, echoing throughout the house. Erica looked at the man walking toward the

back in with

I didn't know we

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

seafood in the fridge, why did