Your Daddy's Here to Take You Home

The weather became warmer as days went by. Elizabeth Liang still spent four hours a day going back and forth between school and South Lake Villa, and of course, she still made the ten dishes plus soup. Other than lecturing her about the virtue of frugality, James Lu barely talked to Elizabeth at all. After dinner, he either read the financial news or headed straight to the study to handle his business affairs. But on Friday, a change occurred. On that day, James returned home as usual, but he was taken aback when he opened the door. He had expected to eat dinner made by Elizabeth right away. However, not only was he not greeted by the light rumbling of the kitchen ventilator and the delicious smell of cooking, but Elizabeth was also nowhere to be seen! Why wasn't Elizabeth home? Puzzled, James looked at the time and saw that it was still early. He supposed that she might've went grocery shopping. But on second thought, she had always finished making dinner by now! He was extremely anno