"Your half-brother?" Nina asked.

"Yeah." Luca did not know what to say, so she decided to use Amur as an excuse.

"To be honest, I envy you a lot. You and your brother are not related by blood but you're so close. Even those who are related by blood may not have as deep a relationship as the two of you," Nina sighed.

Luca knew that she was lamenting about her relationship with Jean. Their relationship was worse than those who were unrelated.

"What did your brother do?" Luca asked. She had been busy with a lot of things in the last couple of weeks. Since Percy had sorted out most of Nina's issues, Luca had not been checking in on her.

After her loud sigh, Luca remembered that Nina had problems with her relationship and family.

Especially with Jean.

"Jean? All he does is think of new ways to ask me for money." Nina sounded helpless as she said, "Since he couldn't get the money from me, he'd go ask Percy for it. I told Percy to not give him a single cent, so he has no choice but to ask my mother now."

"Did he succeed?" Luca knew that Anna was still in the hospital.

"Yeah, he did. If he cries in front of her a few more times, my mother will probably be willing to give her life for him. The medical expenses I set aside were all taken out by my mother and given to him. Do you know what happened next? There's no money in the account to be debited, so the hospital called me." Nina chuckled. There would never be a solution to the problems in her family unless Anna decided to be ruthless and ignored Jean.

"I assume that you've stopped depositing money into that account now, right?" Luca asked.

Nina put the cleaned bowls aside and started to tidy up the cutleries. "No, but I've gotten smarter. I don't deposit too much at a time, and I told the hospital that only I can touch the money in the account. That way, my mother will run out of money for him to squander."

"That's smart," Luca said. There would be no good ending to Anna spoiling Jean like that.

even went as far as to

was as if the two of them owed

he seems to think that Percy will also support him for the rest of his life. I've told Percy that no one is allowed to

with Pierre to kidnap you before. He might do

time to bother me, though. I heard that he's busy dealing with the mess he created. From what Percy told me, the illegal things he did have caught the eye of relevant government bodies. He's being investigated. He's too busy to even take care of himself, so he probably won't have time to trouble me and deal

will be

he had yet to make a

some self-defense techniques," Nina said happily. She watched as Luca added salt to the soup while she counted the corresponding soup bowls and

should just listen to Mr.

no one could gain

skills from Rain. Back then, she thought that she could train and protect herself so that Luke would not have to

the Island of Despair, she realized that these skills were not something that could be accomplished

to get to where she was, and she paid a huge

can protect me."

"I can't guarantee anything, but I do believe that if he can't protect you, no

ordinary

an ordinary

for Luke, she would be like an ordinary person too, striving helplessly toward the goal of establishing herself

would

she was in a situation where she did not

quickly concealed her feelings and took out the

the children

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