Salute To The General

Chapter 10

Chapter 10 To Beg In Person

Back in the Cloud Palace, Nathan was enjoying his lunch together with Penny and her family, soaking in some wonderful, quality family time.

Suddenly, the Benson's phone let out a loud shrill.

He could not believe his eyes when he saw the number on the screen, “Wait, it's Samuel calling. Why would he call me all of a sudden?”

“My instincts tell me he must have called for the pill,” Nathan stressed out, with an indiscernible curl of his lips.

With that being said, he laid out the pill on the table. The pill had been sealed up to preserve its freshness and effect.

It had dawned upon Benson and his family that Nathan had seen this coming when he had said that it would be a matter of time for Samuel and his men to come begging for the pill.

With a smidgen of skepticism in his eye, Benson put the call on speaker mode, “Hello?”

Samuel's voice resonated across the other end of the call, “Benson, dad is in terrible shape now and he needs Phoenixia to save his life. Bring the pill over now, right away.”

Benson's startled eyes grew bigger and rounder when he heard Samuel's quivering voice asking for the pill - It's true! Nathan had hit the bullseye again!

He flashed an unbelievable look at Nathan and was about to open his mouth to agree to Samuel's request.

Benson had always been wary of his elder brother; he would never dare to defy Samuel

Leah snatched the phone away before he could say a word. “Huh! So you're asking for Phoenixia now?" She cried scornfully, “Didn't you guys throw it on the floor and say that it was a rotten pill? And you even told us to save it for ourselves?”

"What makes you think that you can just take it back now since you've treated it like dirt?”

"Don't think that it'll be so easy to take it back just like this. Come and beg us if you really want it!" With an angry grunt, she hung up the call.

The phone shrilled again the moment she hung up; it was Samuel again.

her own and Penny's phone. “Didn“t they just put us to shame in front of our friends and relatives when they'd dumped our present to

have every right to own it.” “There's no way I'm going

from Nathan. It was unfathomable to her how he could say things with absolute accuracy. This was just like the previous occasion when he expected that Mr. Harvey would show up at their door with an apology. It had

materialize again when he said that Samuel and his men would come back for the pill, and he was right again.

better be upfront

chided Nathan with a lighthearted

puffed at him, “What made you think that Samuel would come and beg us for that

Leah to

be the best birthday present for Sean, I heard that he had a medical condition of

give him the pill as a

for what makes me so sure that they would come back and beg us for the pill, it all began at the banquet when I saw him offering rounds of toast to

medical conditions to

the doctor, should anything have happened to Sean. That's why I said that he would come to us and ask for the pill

greatest mystery on earth, Benson and Leah gave out a revelatory expression after

the whole matter,

is it true that Phoenixia can work wonders for those illnesses caused by three highs?” Benson asked, awed by the

does.” Nathan nodded

it would cost a bomb?” Leah

to find such an ancient pill these days,” Nathan acknowledged with a smile, “the last time they saw one was

Ten million!

family gasped in awe when they heard its

thing,” Benson immediately handed back the pill to Nathan, “you'd better keep it somewhere

in the old days.” Nathan explained, “Now its price has soared to some astronomical figure, thanks to

days was still quite a sum of money

had always been with my family.” Nathan gave a beguiling wink, “It wasn't costly when we first

You'd better take it back and make sure you keep

to do with Sean’s condition. Why don’t we let Benson decide on what to do with it?”

was obvious to Penny

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