Lu Ke rubbed her little head: "Really, Andre has it too."
Talia: "Oh, then I'll go call her." Then she ran away.
Lu Ke shrugged, called Joseph in and closed the door.
Compared to Robert's house, this is just a bungalow and a bit narrow.
Here live Selena's parents, two sisters and a brother. Together with her, there are six people living in this bungalow of more than 100 square meters.
So, Talia soon arrived with her younger sister Andrea.
The six-year-old girl also happily accepted the gift. This time, the two sisters remembered to say thank you before running back to their room.
Listening to the chirping sounds inside, it was obvious that the two little ones were trying on their new shoes.
With a bang, a door not far away opened and Selena came out wrapped in a bath towel.
Seeing Lu Ke, she just nodded: "Come on, sit down first, I'll go get dressed."
Lu Ke smiled and nodded, but his eyes were not polite as he watched the thin but fit body walk back to the room.
Joseph lowered his head and played with the football in his hand, not caring at all that a half-naked beauty just walked by.
After a while, Selina didn't come out, so Talia and Andrea ran out: "Luke, Luke, come and take a look, do these shoes look good on us?"
Lu Ke lowered his head and put his hand on his forehead: "Who laces this shoe?"
The two sisters pointed at each other: "Her."
Well, apparently both kids knew that the shoelaces were not to be looked at.
Impatient but eager to wear new shoes, they just roughly passed the laces through the shoelace holes, pulled them a few times in a messy way, and then tied them into an awkward... knot.
Lu Ke could only call the younger Andrei over, ask her to sit down, take off one of her shoes, then pull out the bundled shoelaces, thread them neatly through the holes one by one, and tie a beautiful bow.
"Come on, try them on and see how they work." Lu Ke grabbed the little girl's feet, pushed them into the shoes with force, and put the shoes on her.
Andrea looked at the shoe carefully. "Hmm, Luke you are so smart, much smarter than Talia. She is so stupid, she made a mess of my shoelaces."
Talia was dissatisfied: "You're still blaming me. Look, aren't my shoelaces messed up by you?"
Lu Ke smiled and shook his head. No wonder they were pointing at each other just now. It turned out that they were taking turns helping each other to tie their shoelaces.
The little sisters started chattering again, arguing about who was dumber.
At this time, Selena came out wearing a loose T-shirt and heated pants.
After hearing the content of the quarrel between the two sisters and looking at the shoes on their feet, I immediately frowned: "Why did you buy such expensive things for them?"
The shoes Lu Ke bought for his little sisters were not cheap; they were new summer models from New Balance, on sale for just US$99.
Lu Ke: "Because your mother invited me to dinner."
Selina: "Nonsense, all the dishes she ordered tonight are not worth a pair of shoes."
Lu Ke: "...Are you belittling your mother's labor like this?"
Selina: "Okay, I was wrong. It was the cost of the materials for the dinner."
Lu Ke shrugged: "But I don't think I helped her in any way, so it's not normal to give her a small gift."
Selina: "That's not normal. Take the shoes back and return them later. I checked and the labels on the shoes haven't been cut off. Lister should accept the return."
Lu Ke sneered: "Okay, I'm too lazy to look at Lister's ugly face. At most, you owe me a favor."
Selina: "My favor is worth two hundred dollars? Oh, no, it's one hundred and ninety-eight dollars?"
Lu Ke smiled and shook his head, pointing to the table next to him. Selena looked and saw a beautiful cake.
Just by looking at the packaging, Selena knew it was from the dessert shop in town, and this was the cake she had said she wanted to eat several times.
Unfortunately, this cake is big and expensive, costing eighty dollars each.
Selena couldn't bear to spend so much money on a cake.
She narrowed her eyes, stared at the cake for a moment, then looked at him for a moment, and suddenly smiled: "Okay, for the sake of this cake, I owe you this favor."
Lu Ke actually remembered that she said she wanted to eat the cake, so she didn't want to care about other things.
Moreover, as Lu Ke's partner, she knew that Lu Ke spent almost no money.
At most... Next time when you invite him to dinner, just make it clear and don't bring any gifts.
During this conversation, Selena's mother Sandra also came out.
Selena's mother really doesn't look old at all. She gave birth to Selena at the age of 16 and is only 40 years old this year. She is full of mature charm.
This may be because she and her husband were lucky. They got green cards in the past few years and had a daughter who was even more promising. She became a small town policeman at an early age and had a stable income.
Compared to other people from Mexico, her life can be described as happy and stable.
As for the incident a while ago when she shot and killed the intruder, it was nothing.
She didn't care much about the fact that Lu Ke brought gifts for all three daughters.
It was not until her youngest son Julio got a baseball and a baseball glove that she looked at Lu Ke with a little surprise: "... Tell me, when are you going to marry Selena?"
Lu Ke: "Huh?"
Selina laughed at the side: "Now you know why I asked you not to bring so many gifts? Because Sandra will think you are trying to please me."
Sandra: “Isn’t it?”
Lu Ke smiled bitterly and shook his head: "No, we are partners. It's not strange to give a gift, right?"
Sandra pouted. "What was the name of Selina's previous partner? Oh, Hank. That guy came to our house for several meals, but never brought any gifts. He even packed food to take home. He even said he wanted to pursue Selina. Is this how you police officers pursue your partners?"
Lu Ke was shocked and looked at Selina: "Did Hank really do this?"
Selina nodded: "So I rejected him harshly and told him to wake up and stop dreaming. Then, he resigned."
Lu Ke: "... Hank is single based on his own ability, there's nothing wrong with that!"
Mother and daughter: “Ah?”
After chatting for a while, Selena asked her two sisters who were still showing off to bring out the dishes, and dinner began.
Lu Ke asked, "Where is Marino?" This is Selina's father.
Sandra: "He has been resting in the pasture recently. Several cows are about to give birth and he can't leave."
Lu Ke understood.
Marino works as a cowboy on a ranch outside town. His salary is average, but it is stable.
As long as the ranch doesn't go bankrupt, this old cowboy will have food to eat.
But as the ranch became busy, he didn't have time to go home every day.
It was also because of this that when the Carlos family came to take revenge last time, Sandra was the only one at home to protect the two younger daughters and son.