True Love Waits novel Chapter 1355

"No, I can cook. I am the one who usually cooks for the boys," said Tessie. She couldn't help smiling as she thought of how the four kids would gobble up her food every time she'd cook for them.

Although they were only three years old, they were so sensitive and understanding as if they were teenagers.

"That's good to hear!" Owen nodded his head with a smile that indicated his sense of relief.

Even he could understand that it wasn't easy for the two women to take care of four children.

As he mulled over their situation bitterly, Owen wondered if Matthew would be able to carry on with his original plan. Although Owen was just an outsider, he couldn't help sympathizing with the wife and children of his boss because the living conditions in this place were deplorable. And yet Matthew was planning on leaving his wife here so that he could teach her a lesson.

'I don't think Mr. Huo has the heart to go through with it, ' he thought to himself.

At night, Matthew wanted to wash his feet, so Erica got Adkins' plastic basin and filled it with warm water.

When Matthew said he wanted to brush his teeth and wash his face, Erica knocked at the door of a nearby shop in the middle of the night and bought him a set of toothbrush.

Matthew had a lot of demands, and Erica did everything for him without any hesitation, just as how he had willingly taken care of her a long time ago.

After Erica made sure that Matthew's needs were met with, she took Owen to the village head's house and woke him up so he could help arrange a place for Matthew's men to stay for the night.

By the time Erica came back, it was almost midnight and Matthew was sitting on the bed with his legs crossed.

Erica stretched her slightly cramped muscles, but she wasn't ready for sleep just yet. "Why don't you go ahead and sleep? I'll come to bed later."

She had an important thing to do today.

The man's confused eyes watched Erica as she quickly locked the door and took out her treasure box from the hole on the ground. She unlocked it and flipped it open, revealing a camera and a few developed photos.

There was a look of melancholy on her face after she turned the camera on and looked through all the photos she had taken that day.

Erica had failed to gather evidence on the crimes of Kirk and Pike because of the dog. It seemed as though she needed to work harder.

All the while, the man who had been sitting on the bed without uttering a word, finally got up and walked towards her to see what she was looking at with so much prudence.

Most of the photos were of sceneries and people.

Suddenly, he grabbed her hand and said, "Hold on a second!"

Erica looked up at the man in confusion and asked, "Why?"

Matthew took her camera and squinted his eyes at the tiny screen. Two of those photographs were the originals that had won the first and second prizes in the Twentieth International Photography Competition.

"So you are EM," he said firmly.

EM was the alias for an up and coming dark horse in the photography industry. Although the whereabouts of this person was shrouded in mystery, most people would find EM's photos real and easy to relate to. That was how EM quickly managed to gain traction in the photography industry.

Just in the past two years, EM had won countless awards in the photography industry.

When Matthew was still searching for Erica, he also had someone investigate EM, but the information he received from his contact was of a man who was born in C Country. There seemed to be nothing that could connect EM to Erica because they were from completely different backgrounds.

Erica looked at him in shock and asked, "How did you know?" When she looked down at the backs of the four boys on her camera, she realized how stupid her question was. "Ah, yeah. I'm EM." EM was an abbreviation for Erica and Matthew.

Erica decided to change her name after she left Cass. She named herself Erma, which was a combination of Erica and Matthew, and she used his surname as hers. She was quite satisfied with the name "Erma Huo."

Matthew was at a complete loss for words. He finally realized why neither the Huo family nor the Li family was able to find her, despite their ardent efforts.

They had been looking for Erica in the wrong places.

What they were looking for was a woman named Erica Li or Rika Li and she was with twins—two boys, two girls, or a boy and a girl.

However, as it turned out, Erica had changed her name to Erma Huo, moved into the slum, and was a mother to four sons.

Matthew rubbed his aching temples. Whoever said his woman was stupid obviously didn't know what she was capable of.