True Love Waits

Chapter 1346 Hugo Li

The first and second prizes for the photo contest were one hundred thousand and fifty thousand respectively. Erica won both for her entries, so the money was immediately transferred to her bank account. The certificates were also sent to the ZL Group. Matthew received them, but he couldn't celebrate her victory with her.

It had been one month and ten days since Erica left. Chantel received a call from Gifford. Before she could get the chance to greet him, he immediately asked, "You were with Rika for two days before she went to Cass, right?"

"Yes. Why?" she answered. Her voice was a little shaky as if afraid of something.

"Did she tell you anything about her plans, like where she wanted to go?" he asked again.

She heaved a sigh of relief first before she answered calmly, "No, she didn't." It was true. She knew that Erica was going to run away from home, but the latter didn't tell her exactly where she was going. "Really?" He sounded unconvinced. If only he wasn't busy today, he would go back home to ask Chantel in person.

"Yes, really."

There was a moment of silence from the other end of the line before he spoke again. "If she contacts you, let me know immediately."

"Okay." But Erica had not contacted her yet since she left.

Then Gifford hung up the phone.

Chantel was in a daze as she stared at her phone. All of a sudden, her heart felt empty. It was as if she lost something important.

Meanwhile, in the slum located in the opposite direction to Cass, a skinny woman in plain clothes carried a bowl of freshly-cooked noodles into a shabby small room. She then said to the other woman, "Erma, I bought eggs and tomatoes to make these noodles. Eat them while they are still hot."

Erma was currently six months pregnant, but her belly was so big that some people thought she was about to give birth.

She was Erica. When she came to this slum, she decided to change her name into Erma Huo so people wouldn't recognize her. Without minding the shabby surroundings, she took the bowl of noodles and wolfed them down.

The woman who made the noodles for her was Tessie. Looking at her dirty face with a smile, she asked, "Are you leaving tonight?"

Erica stopped eating and nodded. "Yes. And you will go with me," she answered.

was hoping that Matthew would allow her to go back to Y City after she

you help me now, I will personally take

is the safest place." No one would ever think, especially Matthew, that Erica would come to this barren place to ask for Tessie's

she continued to live a life like this, the babies in her belly would become malnourished. So before that happened, she had to leave

really going to help me if

with Tessie for quite a while now, she had seen the changes in her. Perhaps she had learned

them sneaked out of

Country, Chantel had already

old when Blair remembered to

has already

over Gifford's face when he heard Blair's words. He was in a daze. It took a long while before he finally came back to his

you know that Chantel was pregnant?" Blair sensed something odd. 'Did Chantel not

hadn't seen Chantel in the past few months. When he called her before, she also didn't mention that she was pregnant. How could she give birth all of a sudden? An eight-kilogram baby boy? He didn't know

pregnant

could think of. He rubbed his forehead and

said, "You didn't even know that your wife was pregnant.

her before?" He couldn't counter because his mother was right again. He never cared to ask how Chantel was during the past months that he wasn't able to

Gifford went back home to

the

after giving birth, Chantel had signed a contract

named their

looks exactly like you. He's undeniably your son. People always say that sons

"Mom, I used to have a fair skin when I was a boy. I only got tanned because

Li from his arms

was the happiest moment of her life. After longing for a grandchild for

again, Gifford asked curiously,

was referring to, so she answered casually, "She signed a contract with an entertainment company. She will