"I finish class at eight. Mom, if you're really not feeling well, I'll call you an ambulance, alright?" Nadia did not want to miss out on the lab experiment that night.
"Sigh, forget about it. Pretend I didn't call you! Next time, if anything happens to me, I won't need you and your brother to care for me. I'll just call your father instead!" Mrs. Raven said scornfully and hung up.
At half past seven in the evening, Nadia rushed home.
Mrs. Raven was munching on nuts while watching television.
"Didn't you say that you finish class at eight? Why are you back so early?" "Didn’t you say you weren't feeling well? I was a little worried, so I told my teacher and left." Nadia placed her bag down and looked at her mother. "You look well!"
"Nadia, your mother is well. Thank you for your concern. See, your brother didn't rush back at all," Oliver said. "Having a daughter is still better. At least they know how to worry for another person."
"Nadia, I have something to tell you. Let's go to your room and talk." Mrs. Raven turned off the television and pulled her daughter to her room
"Nadia, your mother went to meet your blind date today!" Oliver said, giving his daughter a warning.
"What? Mom! Did you go to meet E? Why didn't you tell me?" Nadia quickly followed her mother into the room.
After shutting the door, Mrs. Raven took her phone out and said calmly, "You said that you don't like him, so I'm curious as to what is so bad about him, so I asked him out. Nadia, it's not that you don't like him, it's him that doesn’t like you, right?"
"Mom, did he tell you that?" Nadia furrowed her brows. She did not expect E to be such a person.
"No! This is what I observed. E did not say anything. He looks good." Mrs. Raven sized her daughter up. "E is tall, handsome, and wealthy. He surely won't like you!"
"Tall and handsome? Mom, are you sure?"
"Of course, I'm sure! Not only is he tall and handsome, but his voice sounds great too! If I were your age, I would surely pursue him!"
"Mrs. Santos, this is my daughter, Nadia. She is in her junior year at college. She graduates next year. She is already of legal age. She can get married right now. Of course, this is not important. The more important thing is my daughter is prettier in person than in the photos. She does not have any makeup on right now. She's adorable, right?” Mrs. Raven praised her daughter like she was selling a product.
Nadia's smile stiffened. Her mother had no principles when it came to other people's money!
She had not been like that in the past. Why was she getting greedier as she grew older?
"Nadia, you're adorable! You look like a girl
no matter how I see it." Mrs. Santos sighed.
Mrs. Raven was stunned. "Mrs. Santos, our Nadia is a girl! Does she look like a boy?"
"Hahaha! I'm sorry, of course, I believe that Nadia is a girl, but I don’t know who my son listened to and said that Nadia is a boy.
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