"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.

wanted to get some

you? Say it." No change of emotion was heard

know who

“Who?" Percy asked.

there was no chance of

a moment and asked, “Why? Did

Nina found out that he received

turned out

to places like Bibbler's Tale, but Percy

gave me some 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 anything. You have to believe me." Jean immediately clarified that he did not have

none of my business." Percy was not interested in

that the brothers were at odds, so

calling is that I genuinely want to tell you

impatiently, “I'll wait for you

between him and Mallory Corporation, but he had no money to take public transport. At the thought of that, he quickly said, “Mr. Mallory, can you get

you just get a sum of money?" Percy

money to take the bus." Jean left out the part with Marie as he did not want Percy to think that he was exposing her just because she stole his

over. Wait there." Percy finished

Nina's brother, he would have just hung

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

tidied himself up a bit as he was going to a big company like Mallory Corporation,

changing into a clean set of clothes, Jean waited

driver called him. “Hello, sir. I'm at the entrance right now as I can't

up a little, and he walked out the door to find a taxi parked at

stood by the roadside

pushed open the door and asked,

nodded absent-mindedly. Did Percy not send someone to come pick him up? Why was

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