Chapter 43

Upon receiving the loan, Emmanuel went to pick up

Alessandra in a taxi.

“Mom, why did you come to Uncle Benny’s house?”

Emmanuel asked Alessandra when she emerged from

Benny’s residential area.

“I–It’s nothing! I wanted to inform him of your marriage

and invite him over for a meal just to get to know each

other better,” Alessandra lied with a sheepish smile.

In spite of that, Emmanuel knew that she must have

asked Benny for a loan. Moreover, she was hiding the

fact that she was rejected in order for him not to

resent his uncle.

Emmanuel had no illusions as to what kind of person

Benny was. Despite the latter’s wealth, he had never

lent them a single penny. If that wasn’t bad enough,

Benny’s family, being cheap, would take whatever they

fancied every time they dropped by Emmanuel’s home

for a visit.

“Mom, Mackenzie has given me thirty thousand. I can

afford to pay for your treatment now,” Emmanuel

informed her once she got into the car.

“What? You borrowed another thirty thousand?”

The news shocked Alessandra.

told her

pay for his mother’s medical fees. She

were best friends. However, she didn’t want Emmanuel to lose his wife on the

of his friend.

this mean that you didn’t give her

gifts? Or even something

engagement with?”

I didn’t.” Emmanuel shook his

of

that isn’t

“Are you silly?”

exasperated Alessandra poked his

in this world who

without giving a

still have to gift her something

seal the engagement!”

a gift wasn’t his intention. He just

worried that

him because of that.

wanted to

emotions caused her kidneys to hurt

broke out across her

her upper abdomen.

step

to hurry,

mother’s pain by applying pressure

acupoints.

the

the internal

Alessandra on his back.

caught the attention

hospital entrance.

in the back seat of a Bentley,

caught a glimpse of

Emmanuel carrying

to her? Her condition

than mine.

have

alighted from the

open the

Mackenzie suffered

work. Thus, Lexi rushed her to the

help her out of the

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