"Fortunately, your Aunt Sylvia's Liam just got a beating. They're busy with Liam and don't have time to gossip with your grandmother. Everything will be alright once they forget about it.""If you miss Grandma, just come and see her yourself. Don't take Mr. Moses with you."Sally's heart sank deeper and deeper into the abyss. She lowered her voice. "Got it."Just as she hung up on Shawn, Sylvia called again.It was Sylvia's sixtieth call to Sally over the past few days.Sally's school was so big that she could not find her and she did not know where she lived, so she had to bombard her with phone calls every day.Placing her cell phone on the table, Sally looked at the words "Aunt Sylvia" on the screen, feeling distraught.After a long time, the cell phone stopped vibrating, only to be followed up with a text message.The text message was from Sylvia. "You little b*tch, I know what you're afraid of. If you don't want your grandmother to know you married a blind man, get me the
'Liam was only hospitalized for three days. How did he spend so much?'Sylvia's voice on the other end of the line sounded somewhat contemptuous. "Why can't he spend one hundred thousand dollars? My Liam hurt the family jew..." Mid-sentence, she seemed to find the subject embarrassing, so she coughed and changed the subject. "Anyway, Liam was badly hurt." Suddenly, Sylvia's voice cut off. "How did you know Liam was hospitalized for three days?"Her son was so badly injured in a fight that he almost had his family jewels removed. She did not even tell her brother Shawn about it. Sally had not even answered her phone these days, and this was the first time she had spoken to Sally about Liam's hospitalization.'How does Sally know that Liam had been hospitalized for three days?'"Do you know anything about Liam getting beaten up?"Sylvia's voice went up an octave. "Could it be that you had something to do with him getting beaten up?"Sally panicked. "No, no.""Hmph, I guess not
One of her faults was that she could never keep up with the world.For example, if she quarreled with someone and was badly scolded, her brain would react only after the person left. 'I should have refuted her this way just now!'This happened several times, in fact, more than a dozen times, before she finally realized that she was not a quarrelsome and scheming person. Thus, she preferred to avoid trouble whenever possible.What she said to Sylvia on the phone had been conceived in her head during the time when she had refused to answer Sylvia's calls over the past few days.However, it was one thing to conceive and another to speak.When she had spoken the words stored inside her mind, she felt as if she had been drained of all her strength.Sylvia was frightened by it.She leaned against the tree to cool her head for a long time before picking up her cell phone and heading back.As her silhouette slowly returned to the villa, a woman hidden in the corner of the small garden
"Worried about..."Sally yawned and was just about to blurt out the thing to Sylvia when she thought of something and hastily shut her mouth.Reason told her that she could not tell him about it.'Isn't telling him I'm worried about money an indirect way of asking him for money?'Therefore, she smiled and played dumb. "Worried about today's physics exam.""I've never been good at physics."Her lashes quivered slightly as she said this, and her eyes fluttered with confusion as to where to look.Elijah frowned but did not expose her. "If you're so worried, why don't you study hard for it?"Sally pressed her lips together and thought about it. "Can I come back later after school?""Don't send Ol' Joe to pick me up. I'll study in the library and come back by bus, all right?"Ol' Joe's daily pick-ups were more of a restriction and method of monitoring to her.Elijah narrowed his eyes. "Sure."The little lady heaved a sigh of relief and dutifully thrust the spoon and fork into hi
The latter winced and the soup in his hand spilled."Where's the money?"After they left the ward, Sylvia made no secret of her ideas of Sally. "Hurry up."Sally could only hand her the envelope with three thousand dollars in it. "You must keep your word, Aunt Sylvia."Sylvia rolled her eyes. "As long as you pay me on time, I'll keep my mouth shut in front of your grandmother!"With that, she sneered at Sally.She married such a rich man but was so stingy in paying some money.After giving her the money, Sally did not have anything more to say to Sylvia, so she picked up her backpack and left.When she was walking down the hall on the first floor, she happened to bump into Javier, whom she had not seen for a long time."Sally!"Javier had begun to call her from a distance.She was going to hide from him, but when he yelled at her, she did not stand a chance.Therefore, Sally could only greet him awkwardly, "Javier, what a coincidence."She could somehow bump into him every
Sally blushed as she nodded. "Therefore, could you recommend any good part-time jobs?"Javier looked up at the sign in front of him. "Here we are. Let's have lunch first. We'll talk about it afterward."Sally could only nod and follow him into the restaurant.She was a little absent-minded during the meal.She could not stop thinking about what happened when she had lunch with Javier last time.The last time she had lunch with Javier, Elijah knew everything instantly.'Will he know this time as well?''Will he call her and send someone to take her home as he did last time?'As she finished her meal in fear, she did not hear anything from Elijah at all."You're a nursing student. I can recommend you work as a part-time nurse in a nursing home."After lunch, Javier looked through his cell phone. "I happen to have a classmate who works in a nursing home. There're a lot of part-time nursing jobs there. The pay is pretty high, but the requirements will be higher.""You took such
Even his wedding was attended by no one but his grandfather."However...""It's not that I don't want to help her."Elijah shifted into a more comfortable position and leaned back in his wheelchair. "I'll help her when she figures out how couples get along with each other."Pierre was confused by what Elijah said but seeing the man's face turn cold, he dared not ask. "Are you still going to wait for madam to come back for dinner, sir?""It's already late, why don't you eat by yourself first?"The man shook his head, his thin lips parted, and said only one word, "I'll wait."The nursing home was scheduled to close at half-past seven in the evening.Based on the time, Sally figured she could catch the last bus and be back by eight o'clock.However, it was her first day of work, and there were so many things she had to finish. She was also inexperienced, so the time dragged on until it was late.Once she was out of the nursing home, she took out her cell phone to look at the tim
Javier had been meaning to ask Sally this question since noon.However, she hemmed and hawed about some cooking class she was going to take.She was really bad at lying.A sensible and capable girl like her could not cook? No one would believe such a lie."No, I don’t."She denied with a smile.The man in the driver's seat spoke again. "You can tell me if you need money. I'm making good money even though I've only been working for a few years."Speaking of this, Javier could not help showing off, "I bought this car with my own money–two hundred thousand dollars. My classmates are all envious of me."Sally looked at him, her big eyes full of admiration. “You’re doing really well.""If only I can do as well as you, Javier."Javier smiled proudly. "As long as you work hard, there’s nothing you can’t achieve.""By the way, Sally, you haven't told me where you live!"Sally dumbly told him the address of Swan Lake Villa.Javier was stunned for quite some time. "Is it the Swan La