Room for You
Chapter 182

Chapter 182

“Will you say the same if it's my cousin who pursued you?” Nigelpouted and asked. feeling a little depressed.

Something flashed across Anastasia’s eyes at that question. Elliot wasnever an obedient gentleman like Nigel. Instead, he had a strong andoverbearing character, somewhat like a bandit's. He would ignore herrejection and warnings.

Upon seeing her reaction, Nigel couldn't help feeling jealous. It seemslike she gives Elliot special treatment.

In the end, she didn't answer his question and she muttered, “Afterlunch, I have to return to the office for a meeting. You should go aboutyour renovation.”

In the evening, Anastasia went to pick up her son before a certainsomeone did so. Otherwise, the child would be taken away by him yetagain.

This time, she successfully picked Jared up. She even brought him tothe mall and had a stroll near her office. She also bought somedumplings home to cook. However, when she was buying them, thelittle boy kept asking her to buy more. “Mommy, that's not enough. Iwant more.”

“It's enough. In fact, it's more than enough for the two of us,” shehelplessly replied.

“No, it's not enough.” He used a small ladle and continued filling thefrozen dumplings into the bag.

In the end, Anastasia brought a large bag of frozen dumplings home.As they were unable to finish them, she had to keep them in the fridge.After they reached home and while Anastasia was at the balcony, theboy took her phone. Finding Elliot's number, he sent the man amessage. “Mr. Presgrave, come over to have some dumplings!” All thatwas done quickly and easily.

“Sure! I'm on my way, Elliot replied.

The boy put down the phone happily. As expected, Mr. Presgrave willcome.

When Anastasia saw that it was getting late, she went to cook thedumplings.

“Mommy, you have to cook all the dumplings!” the little boy remindedher

“It's too much. It's a waste if we can't finish them.”

“I can finish them. I want to eat 50 dumplings!” he announced loudly.“You can't fill 50 of them in your little tummy!” She chuckled as she saidthat.

“I can!” He put on a straight face as he commented, “Mommy, just cookthem.”

“Alright. I'll cook two plates first, and Ill make some more if it's notenough, okay?” she conceded with a smile.

“Okay, but don't forget to cook more if it's not enough!” Mommy cancook more when Mr. Presgrave is here, Jared thought.

Thereafter, Anastasia went to the kitchen to cook some dumplings.Meanwhile, the little boy waited and stared at the door as he listenedto the footsteps outside intently.

Ten minutes later, Anastasia received a message on her phone. The boyquickly took a glance at it.

Open the door

He giggled and immediately turned the door handle. Standing outsidethe door was none other than Elliot. The man was dressed like an elitewho had just exited from a meeting room, and he emanated thepresence of someone powerful and influential.

“Mr. Presgrave, we are having dumplings tonight.”

“Great!” Elliot grinned.

Anastasia, who exited the kitchen to get something from the fridge, wasstartled to see the man in the living room.

“W-Why are you here?” Her eyes widened in surprise.

“Mommy, I invited Mr. Presgrave over to eat dumplings,” the boyexplained on behalf of Elliot, for fear that Anastasia would be mad.Anastasia narrowed her eyes. At that instant, the reason behind Jared'sactions of insisting on getting extra dumplings and asking her to cook50 of them dawned upon her. It turned out that her son had includedElliot's portion since the very beginning.

“Don't put him on the spot. I wanted to come myself” Elliot chimed in.There was nothing that Anastasia could do at that point since he hadshown up.

"Alright, then. Since we have enough dumplings...” Looking at her son'slarge innocent eyes, she couldn't bring herself to scold him.

It's a good thing that he took the initiative to think about others. Itshows that he has become a more mature kid, she thought.

“Have a seat. I'll go and cook the dumplings.” After Anastasia said that,she returned to the kitchen.

Subsequently, the first thing that came to Jared's mind was to ask forElliot's permission. “Mr. Presgrave, Mommy is going to attendGrandpa's banquet tomorrow night. Can I go to your house to play?”“What's wrong? Won't she be taking you along?" Elliot asked with afrown.

“Nope! Mommy said that it's not convenient for me to be therebecause there will be a lot of people. She is going to get Grace to lookafter me, but I want to spend time with you.”