The cashier:
Ten cans, another ten cans... One hundred cans, another one hundred cans...
Even when all the cans of pet food in the store were gone, the card still wasn't maxed out yet.
Louis was dumbfounded. "Just how much money is there in there?"
The cashier:
Louis waved and said, "Alright, that's enough. Store the rest here for now, I'll come over and collect them tomorrow!"
The cashier finally heaved a sigh of relief.
She had really been very scared just now. The whale in front of her had pretty much bought the whole store!
Louis stared at the bank card in his hand after he left the pet food shop. He had bought the following month's supply of cat and dog food in the store just now and spent a total of almost 50,000 dollars.
Even so, the card still didn't seem to be maxed out yet.
He decided to go to the bank to check how much balance there was in it!
The cell phone finally stopped beeping.
When Nora saw from the notifications on the phone that Louis had spent about 50,000 dollars all in the pet food store with her card, she knew at once that he had ordered his supply of cat and dog food for the next month.
Couldn't he pay all at once, though? Why did he have to pay $13.90 and $139 again and again instead?
She shook her head. Unable to understand, she simply stuffed the phone into her pocket.
As soon as she looked up, she saw Cherry and Justin, who were sitting opposite her, staring at her curiously.
Justin didn't say anything.
Cherry asked, "Who was just sending you text messages just now, Mommy?"
Nora glanced at her and replied, "No one."
Almost as soon as she said that, a faint voice said, "So, no one sent you 157 messages?"
Nora:"???"
Cherry:"???"
Both of them looked at Justin in unison, only to see that his usually deep and bottomless eyes were looking at her innocently at the moment. Even the beauty mark at the corner of his eye seemed to exude a feeling that he had suffered some kind of injustice, as if she had done something behind his back.
Nora:
She pursed her lips and suddenly asked, "I heard that you have a marriage agreement with Yvonne Smith?"
Her one-liner made Justin sit up straight. His expression turned serious and he replied, "I have to make this clear —my marriage agreement is with a daughter of the Smiths, not specifically Yvonne Smith. Come to think of it, this may be fate between you and me. No wonder you made lo—ving me your first priority the moment you saw me."
Nora:
Why did he have to pause in between the two syllables for the word 'loving', making her feel like she had failed her English classes and misunderstood something?
When she looked at Justin again, he continued to sit where he was with a serious look. He had worn a black suit today and looked extra serious. He probably didn't mean what she thought he meant, right?
Nora raised her eyebrows. "Oh."
She got up, glanced at Cherry's room, and asked, "Where does Pete live?"
She did care about her son, after all, and wanted to see what her son's room had turned into.
But as soon as she voiced the question, Justin and Cherry exchanged a look.
Seeing that their expressions didn't look quite right, Nora frowned. "Pete couldn't possibly not have any place to live in, right?"
"He does, but..." Justin found it hard to explain it in a few words. He said, "But because I had misunderstood his sexual orientation previously... cough, and also because Cherry likes pink, I renovated it into a pink-themed room to make the child happy."
Nora:"!!!"
She looked at Justin with a complex look. "Are you sure you don't need me to take a look at your brain?"
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