Chapter 14

Hawick cleared his throat. “The card is at home. Wait till I get it, and I’ll send it over to you.”

The kind Cecelia did not feel like Hawick was giving an excuse and thus thought about it for a while before saying, “Just mail it to me.”

Cecelia did not want to see him again, not even once more.

“... okay.” Hawick looked at the girl who had not said anything. “May I leave now?”

The girl looked at Cecelia and asked, “How much do you have in that card?”

“... 6... 60 thousand.” Cecelia felt embarrassed that she took almost six years to save that sum of money.

Cecelia thought that the girl would tease her. She might not have been well versed with brands, but Cecelia could tell that the girl’s clothes were not those bought from the roadside.

Unexpectedly, the girl did not say anything to Cecelia and instead looked over at Hawick. “200 thousand, no bargaining. In cash.”

“2... 200 thousand?”

“Why? Too little?” The girl raised her brows.

“N...no... that’s not it...” Hawick looked at Cecelia. “She only deposited 60 thousand, I...”

“Do you dare say that the 60 thousand is still around?”

“E...even if I did spend it all, it’s just considered borrowing. I’ll return every cent to her once I have the money...”

“How dare you spend all my money?” Cecelia had not expected Hawick to be that shameless. “I took over 6 years to save that money, and you spent all of it. How could you be so shameless?”

The girl patted Cecelia on the shoulder to comfort her. Then, she looked at Hawick coldly. “There is no need to wait for the future. Pay up now. You could consider using your other leg to pay for it as well.”

Hawick subconsciously held on to his leg that was still well. With a difficult expression on his face, he said, “I can’t make that much money in such a short time. Could you give me a few more days?”

The girl was not going to take any of his nonsense and merely pointed at the cougar who was not too far away with her lips. “It’s time to test how important you are to her.”

Hawick understood what she meant and looked embarrassingly at the old woman. Nevertheless, he had no one else to turn to.

Cecelia felt hurt as she watched Hawick coquettishly coax the cougar for money. After all, they had dated each other for more than a year or two.

Initially, Cecelia felt a sense of discomfort, but the girl next to her said, “Sister, I didn’t want to say this, but your taste in men isn’t that good.”

Cecelia was rendered speechless.

However, reality was, the cougar had a soft spot for Hawick as well. After a few minutes, Hawick returned with a signed cheque.

Cecelia immediately grabbed the cheque which clearly stated ‘RMB Twenty Thousand Only’ and stowed it in her pocket.

The money she had spent on Hawick was more than the amount written on the check. Not to mention, the true feelings she had invested in him could not be compared to money.

Cecelia’s eyes reddened when she thought about how stupid she had been in the past.

The girl looked at Cecelia and asked, “Do you have anything else you’d like to say?”

Cecelia firmly looked at Hawick. “From henceforth, we no longer have anything to do with each other!”

“Heard that?” The girl rested her arm on Cecelia’s shoulder and said in a rather threatening tone that was calm and steady, “From now onward, she is my buddy. If you dare give her any trouble, it would mean going against me, Grace Turner. Don’t regret later on if you lose another arm, or leg, or anything else.”

With that being said, Grace hooked arms with Cecelia and turned to leave with her.

At a burger shop.

Cecelia’s jaw widened with each passing moment as she watched Grace called for the waiter even after devouring five burgers.

Grace noticed her expression and rolled her eyes. “Why, are you detesting that I eat too much?”

“Not at all!”

Cecelia was indebted toward Grace as the latter had saved her life. Thus, there was no way she would be calculative about five burgers. Even if Grace wanted ten or a hundred burgers, Cecelia would willingly pay for all of them. Cecelia was only worried that Grace’s health would be affected as burgers were not the healthiest of foods.