Salute To The General

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.

the phone altogether, along with 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 the floor?” The red-faced Leah spoke agitatedly, “Not to mention how they singled us out by making us sit outside the banquet,

the guts to demand us to hand over the pill as if they have every right to own it.” “There's no way I'm going to give in unless they

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 turned

his prophecy seemed to materialize again when he said that Samuel and his men would come back for the pill, and he was right again. Samuel had just called

had always kept his word; his prediction was never wrong. “You'd better be upfront with me and tell me what's this all about,” Penny demanded

chided Nathan with a lighthearted

made you think that Samuel would come and beg us for that pill? How

prompted Benson and Leah to fix their suspicious eyes

for Sean, I heard that he had a medical condition of the three highs, which was prone to illnesses such

to give him the

that they would come back and beg us for the pill, it all began at the banquet when I saw him

cause which has led people with such medical conditions

Samuel and the rest would be bound to find out about Phoenixia from the doctor, should anything have happened to Sean. That's why

Benson and Leah gave out a revelatory expression after they

still feeling skeptical about the whole matter, the explanation from Nathan sounded plausible to

can work wonders for those illnesses caused by three highs?” Benson asked, awed

it really does.” Nathan nodded

that it would cost a bomb?”

acknowledged with a smile, “the last time they saw one was at an auction. It was sold for

Ten million!

in awe when they heard its price

immediately handed back the pill

few bucks in the old days.” Nathan explained, “Now its price has soared to some astronomical figure, thanks to those rich men who had found out about its miraculous

few bucks in the old days was still quite a sum of money for this

Nathan gave a beguiling wink, “It wasn't costly when we

this pill has become so precious now. You'd better take it back and make sure

that it has got to do with Sean’s condition. Why don’t we let Benson decide on what to

to