Filed to story: The Disguised Billionaire and His Accidental Wife Novel
Zachary, who was almost immediately hung up on by his wife, looked at his phone in silence for a long while.
He knew Serenity was still mad at him in her heart.
The two of them had not actually made up. Their current situation was only due to Nana’s interference and out of respect for her.
Serenity did indeed return to the bookshop in a jiffy.
“Have the leftovers been heated up? We can eat now.”
Serenity asked Zachary who was seated behind the counter as she walked in, carrying the packed food.
“It’s done.”
Seeing that she had returned, Zachary immediately stood up and walked out from behind the counter. He walked into the kitchen to grab plates and utensils for them and then returned to the kitchen to bring out the heated food.
Serenity placed the packed food on the counter. Zachary saw that there were new dishes. and said, “Did I not say there wasn’t a need to get anything else?”
“I was worried you wouldn’t be used to eating leftovers, so I got two dishes, especially for you. The food from this restaurant is pretty good. When I get takeout, I order it from this restaurant often.”
Hearing that the two dishes were specially ordered for him, Zachary’s gaze on her deepened.
For the pair of husband and wife to get along, he was putting in the effort, and so was
she.
He was changing, bit by bit, and so was she.
“Oh, right. There was a guy who came by looking for you earlier. He called me brother in–law.”
Zachary seemed to say nonchalantly as he helped scoop some rice for Serenity. “He said he was looking for you for something. When I asked him what it was, he didn’t say and didn’t even stay two minutes longer before leaving. Did he call you? Was it an urgent matter?”
Serenity did not hide the truth from him and said, “That was Shawn. It wasn’t anything urgent. I asked him to ask Jasmine for help because I couldn’t help him with whatever he needed.”
Zachary did not say anything more.
The pair of them descended into silence for a short moment.
After a pause, Zachary still decided to ask.
“What did he ask for your help with?”
Serenity put a peeled prawn into her mouth. This was from the leftovers when Zachary peeled the whole plate of prawns. Sonny could not eat that much, so there was still half a plate of it left.
She loved eating prawns.
She loved all kinds of seafood.
“He’s going to attend the business reception at Wiltspoon Hotel in a while and he needed a female companion. He wanted to invite me to go with him, but I rejected him. I’m a married woman now.”
After Serenity said that, she gave Zachary a look.
Zachary knew what she meant by those words.
His expression remained composed. He did not eat less just because his wife gave him at look.
Serenity’s honesty made him feel much better, and he felt like he had a particularly good appetite. He ate the two dishes Serenity had specially ordered for him with great relish.
The two of them ate up all of the food.
After the meal, Serenity was about to clear the table when Zachary stood up and did it first. “I’ll do it. You should sit and have a rest,”
“You make it sound like you’re afraid I’m about to burst.”
Zachary smiled, what a rare sight. “I really am afraid you ate so much you’ll burst.”
“The seafood can’t be kept. It doesn’t taste good after the first meal, let alone overnight. We have to finish it and not waste it. Seafood is pretty expensive right now. You might be earning a lot, but we should still be saving where we can.
Zachary laughed. “I can still afford to take care of you. If you like eating seafood, we can buy it for ourselves after this.”
“All the seafood Ms. Stone gave us is fresh. She brought it back specially from the seaside.”
“If you want to, we can take a weekend trip to the seaside too and have seafood freshly caught from the sea.”
This was Zachary’s first time suggesting that they take a weekend trip.
“It’s already November.”
“As long as the sun behaves normally, November in Wiltspoon is still hot, especially during the day. It’s even more suitable to go to the seaside for a holiday then. It won’t be too cold nor will it be too hot.”
Serenity rubbed her stomach. “We can talk about this later. I can’t be sure now that I won’t have something else on that weekend.”
Zachary gave a hum in response.
As he cleared the table and brought the dishes into the kitchen to wash them, he heard his great and mighty wife remind him, “Don’t pour too much dishwashing liquid in and end up filling the sink with bubbles.”
Zachary kept a straight face and did not respond.
After ten minutes, Zachary was done with the dishes.
Having looked in the fridge earlier, he knew there were some fruits in the fridge.
He washed a fruit plate and took out some of each type of fruit from the fridge. He washed the fruits before cutting them into pieces and arranging them on the plate.. After putting a few toothpicks onto the plate, he walked out of the kitchen while. carrying the fruit plate.
“Have some fruits.”
He put the fruit plate on the counter.
Serenity was speechless for a moment. “Are you actually trying to make me so full I’ll burst?”
Zachary lightly poked her forehead. “Don’t you know how to go out for a walk to help. with digestion?”
The entrance to Wiltspoon School was so wide, and there was a long double–lane road by it. It was also next to a big river. If she just walked one lap along the road, which was also the riverside, she would be able to ease her digestion.
Serenity was surprised by his sudden intimate action and instinctively raised her hand to smack his away, but he withdrew his hand before that could happen.
She smacked the air instead.
“We should go out for a walk in a bit.”
Serenity sat up straight and asked, “Don’t you have a business engagement tonight?”
“There was one tonight, but Nana insisted that I come over to eat with you, so I had to call it off.”
Embarrassed, Serenity said, “I didn’t ask Nana to do that, okay?”
Her relationship with Grandma May was good. She married him in the first place because of her.
Worried that he would think she was manipulating Grandma May, Serenity tried to explain.
Zachary looked at her with keen, dark eyes, and said gently, “I know it wasn’t your intention.”
Nana was giving him an out.
Serenity looked at the time and saw that it was just past seven. “It’s still early. What time was your business engagement originally? You can still go do your thing.”
Zachary was silent.