The twins ran happily towards the kitchen, and from then on, Stefan could hear the clanging of kitchen utensils emerging from the kitchen mixed with the sound of children laughing.
Stefan walked around the house as if he was back in his own home. After a while, he headed towards the kitchen and asked the twins, who were mixing a batter. "Do you need any help?"
Abby gazed at Stefan sweetly, her eyes sparkling as brightly as stars in the sky. "Do you know how to cook, Uncle Handsome?"
The sight of Abby made Stefan feel as if his heart was soaked in sugary syrup. He smiled without realizing it, then shook his head and replied, "I never knew how to cook. It's too trivial and such a waste of time. It's the kind of thing best left to the servants."
"But it won't be the same!" argued Abby. "The servants are not your family members, so the food they make won't taste as good…"
Abby was a bona fide foodie, so she had high expectations for the food she ate. To her, good food not only had to be tasty, but it also had to be prepared with love, something that servants could not do.
"Mommy always cooks delicious food," she said. "So does Daddy Q! He makes tasty food as well! Sometimes they would cook together, and we'd all sit at the table and eat all the food! That was the happiest time for all of us! It's a pity that you don't know how to cook, Uncle Handsome because that means you'll never experience that kind of happiness!"
Stefan did not expect to hear such heart-wrenching words from Abby. He shook his head helplessly and said, "When you put it that way, it sounds like I'm the most wretched man in the world!"
"It doesn't matter if you don't know how to cook," said Adie as he was creaming butter with the electric mixer. He then suggested, "You can start learning! Q did the same. He was completely useless in the kitchen, but he learned and practiced until he became a master cook! In a short time, he managed to impress all of us!"
Although Adie hated his evil daddy very much, he still subconsciously wished to "reform" Stefan Hunt, thinking that it would really cheer his mommy up if he could transform this broken and erratic "machine" into a brand-new useful one.
"If Daddy Q turns out to be a bad guy, then we'll… then we'll…"
Abby grabbed the hem of her clothes. Her eyes were reddening as she was on the verge of tears. She really liked Daddy Q, so she simply could not entertain the thought that he might be a bad guy, much less consider that he might leave them one day. As soon as she thought about it, her eyes and her nose stung, and she felt like crying.
"It doesn't matter if Q turns out to be bad," Adie reasoned in a mature and rational tone, wise beyond his years. "We'll just give him another chance and try to change his bad habits so he'll transform into a good guy. Mommy, Abby, and I will never give up on him, and he will never give up on us either, so you don't need to worry about us!"
Stefan fell silent for a few seconds. He then smiled wanly and vaguely replied, "In that case, that must Mr. Q must be the luckiest man in the world."
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