Twins in Her Womb (Bianca and Luke Crawford novel) novel Chapter 1696

It was noontime. Luca finally finished translating the contents of one of the folders. She glanced at the time. It was almost time to prepare the hotpot.

She walked out of the bedroom. Nina was sitting on the couch watching TV. She was afraid that she would disturb Luca, so she had turned the TV volume down to the point where she could barely hear anything.

“Are you done?” Nina smiled when she saw Luca walk out of the room.

“I’ve just finished part of my work. I’m going to prepare the hotpot now,” replied Luca. Then, she headed to the kitchen.

Making a hotpot was not as complicated as making proper meals. She only had to season the soup base and clean the ingredients. That was all she had to do.

Nina followed her into the kitchen. “Let me help you.”

“It’s alright. Just wait for the food,” Luca said as she opened the fridge and took the ingredients out.

“You’re already treating me to hotpot. How could I just eat without helping? But I’m pretty bad at cooking too. Don’t expect me to help you to make the soup base. I can still manage if it’s just cleaning the vegetables.” Nina helped to take the ingredients from Luca when Luca was taking them out of the fridge.

Luca smiled and shook her head when Nina insisted on doing so. She did not reject her offer.

Nina looked at the hotpot ingredients in the bag and exclaimed, “I didn’t expect you to buy all my favorite food.”

“Aren’t hotpot ingredients all the same?” Luca said. She knew Nina was coming, so she bought some of her favorite hotpot ingredients.

“There are so many hotpot ingredients, but everything here suits my taste.” Nina rummaged through the ingredients in the bag and exclaimed, “There’s nothing I don’t like to eat here.”

Luca smiled, and she took the hotpot seasoning out. She planned to make the hotpot soup base first. After all, the soup base was the essence of hotpot.

Nina took the ingredients out one after another, saying, “Luca, others would think that we’ve known each other for years. You know my preferences so well.”

Luca opened the package of the hotpot seasoning and said thoughtfully, “Perhaps we have known each other for a long time?”

Nina was startled for a moment. She turned around and glanced at Luca, who was busy making the soup base. She smiled and replied, “Is that so? Then did I forget about you? If that’s the case, I should be feeling guilty as hell for forgetting about you.”

Luca shook her head. She did not continue the subject of the conversation. “Oh, please help me make some juice later. I’m planning to add some spice to the soup base to make it a little spicier.”

"It tastes good if it's a little spicy." Nina nodded and agreed to help her. "Leave the juice to me."

Hence, both of them worked together and finished making the hotpot in a short time.

Luca poured the soup into the pot on the induction cooker and turned it on.

Nina clapped her hands with a smile on her face. “It’s been a long time since I looked forward to enjoying hotpot. Thank you, Luca.”

Luca poured the juice into the glass, smiled at her, and said, "It's just hotpot. You don't have to thank me."

"You have no clue. After my mother fell sick, I feel satisfied just being able to have a proper meal, not to mention hotpot.” Nina took the glass of juice Luca handed to her and took a sip of it.

The juice was freshly squeezed by her. It tasted nice and sweet, so she took another sip of it.

Luca felt sorry for Nina when she heard that.

Previously, Percy was beside her to keep these matters away from her. However, Nina was bearing all the burden alone in silence now.

Everyone would feel sorry for what she was going through.

“Then you should come over here often to accompany me. It’s kind of boring to eat alone.” Luca extended an invitation to her.

“Alright, but won’t you be too busy to entertain me next time? Your wounds are almost healed, right? I think you’re going to be busy soon. I heard that you’re helping T Corporation with the tender?” Nina asked.

“Yes, their translator is still on leave and can’t come back to work. I was asked to do some translating work,” Luca explained. She did not expect Nina to know so much about it even though she was not working in T Corporation.