"If you don't like him, why won't you let him go? Didn't I give you a sum of money? You don't want it anymore? Or... do you think it's too little? That sounds about right. A woman like you would only approach my son to get to me. Tell me, how much do you want this time?" Madam Mallory despised Nina. She took out the checkbook from her handbag and was about to write Nina a check.

"I don't need money. I didn't need it before, I don't need it now, and I won't need it in the future." Nina held Percy's hand tightly. She initially planned to stand aside and let him solve the matter on his own. However, she could not keep quiet any longer.

Since she loved him, she was willing to share weal and woe with him. They would get through hardships together. That was what true love was.

She would never back down because she was afraid.

"What do you want?!" Madam Mallory was fuming from what she said and threw the checkbook on the sofa.

"I didn't know how I felt before, so I told you that I had no interest in Percy nor did I like him. However, Pierre, your youngest son, made me acknowledge my true feelings," Nina said as she looked back at Pierre.

His face was ashen. She was unsure if it was because of his health or because he was angry with what she said. He looked like he was going to get out of bed and strangle her to death.

Nina did not know that with Pierre's temperament, he would have most certainly gotten out of bed in an instant. However, he was still half-lying on the bed.

Could it be that Luca hurt him so badly that he could not even move?

Nina admired Luca in her heart. At the same time, she was worried that he would pick on Luca once he got better.

Hopefully, when the time came, Luke would step in and help Luca...

at her youngest son and found that

had prescribed him painkillers the day before. At first, the painkillers could only numb the pain for four hours. Although the

last night, he started to feel the pain again. The pain was not subdued even after he took painkillers. The painkillers' effect was getting weaker and weaker. It was unable to keep the pain in check any

endure it when he cried out in pain. He told Pierre to only take the painkillers if he could not deal with the

side effects from the heavy

was because his pain

lay on the hospital bed with a chilly expression. With Pierre's character, even if the matter was exposed, he would not tell Madam Mallory and Old Master Mallory the

into trouble and was unable to deal with it, he would step in to help out as his

their hearts, although Pierre was arrogant

you say? That's impossible." Madam Mallory did not believe that Pierre would be interested in someone like Nina. She was raging. "Don't frame your brother for your

kidnapped Nina, he imprisoned her in your villa and got our former maid to take care of her. Now, that maid is in the

her younger son who was on the hospital bed. "Every one of my villas is taken care

still chose to trust Pierre instead of him.

You just haven't transferred the title yet," Percy continued. "Do you

painkillers he took

not feel anything when he saw how distressed Pierre

you accountable, but the Mallory family can't stop me from being

Mallory blacked out for a little after she heard what he said. ‘There are many socialites in A City. Why did he fall in love with this

just said, even her favorite youngest

‘Were my sons bewitched?'

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