"That's your own problem. My only obligation is to take care of Mom, not you." Nina hung up the phone and told him firmly that it was impossible for him to try to get money from her.

Jean gripped the phone in his hands tightly with murderous eyes as he listened to the busy tone on the other end of the call.

With his stomach in constant pain, he had no other choice but to call Pierre.

After the phone rang six times, Pierre's tirade could be heard. "What's the matter with you? Why are you calling so early?"

Jean recoiled and apologized in a hurry. "I'm sorry, Mr. Pierre, but I have a favor to ask you."

"If you have something to say, spit it out." Pierre was impatient. If he were not Nina's brother, he would not even go close to people like him.

"Uhh. All my money got stolen. Can you lend me some temporarily?" Jean bit the bullet and asked him for money, hoping that he would help him solve this urgent matter for the sake of Nina.

"It's none of my f*cking business if your money got stolen. Was the thousands of dollars I gave you yesterday not enough?" After asking him, Pierre hung up the phone right away without waiting for him to answer.

He did not even give Jean time to explain.

Jean frowned upon hearing the busy tone, and he put the phone aside dispiritedly.

He never would have thought that Marie would be able to humiliate him to this extent.

There was not an ounce of mercy left in Jean. Since Marie ran away after stealing his money, he had to find her. However, the brothers he met on the streets were not very reliable, and they charged too much.

Hence, it was better for him to get help elsewhere, but not from the police.

Jean had a candidate in mind, so he picked his phone up to make a call.

"Who is this?" Percy's cold voice rang from the other end of the phone.

"Mr. Mallory, it's me, Jean. There's something I'd like to talk to you about," said Jean. He knew that Percy would not easily forgive the person who sold Nina's information to the reporters, so he wanted to use Percy as a means of finding Marie.

the same time, he wanted to

change of emotion was heard

"It's about my sister. I know

“Who?" Percy asked.

was no chance of him getting his money back. He needed

for a moment and asked, “Why? Did you not

Nina found out that he received

turned out to

to places like Bibbler's Tale, but Percy would often show up at places

money after seeing how well I drank, but I didn't mention a single thing to him about Nina. Plus, I never promised to help him with

have with him is none of my

known that the brothers were at odds, so he

reason why I'm calling is that I genuinely want to tell you what I

said impatiently, “I'll wait for

public transport. At the thought of that, he quickly said, “Mr. Mallory, can you get me a ride?

you just get a

Jean left out the part with Marie as he did not want Percy to think that he was exposing her just because

there." Percy finished speaking and hung up the

he would have just

“Marie, are you thinking of trying to escape with my money?

bit as he was going to a big

clean set of clothes, Jean waited for

at the entrance right now as I can't drive into the area in your address, so I'm afraid you'll

walked out the

was stunned and stood by the roadside for a

taxi driver pushed open the door and asked, “Are

nodded absent-mindedly. Did Percy not send someone to come pick him

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