Chapter 7
The unexpected appearance of Derek Harvey left Penny and her family reeling from the sudden, inexplicable turn of events.
Curiosity got the better of Benson when they were back at the dining table, continuing their breakfast. “Your words came true when you’d said Mr. Harvey would show up today to apologize in person.” He cast an inquisitive glance at Nathan, “Do you have something to do with this?”
“How could this be possible? I’m sure that it’s merely a coincidence.” Leah snorted, “He hardly had stepped out of the house the entire night. There’s no way that he could be involved,” she insisted.
bum like him could get Mr. Harvey to
haunting him with horrible nightmares,
such wee hours of the morning.”
a prayer throughout her life. Hence she would attribute
skeptical of Leah’s explanation; he found
agree more with Leah when she proclaimed that Nathan was incapable of performing such a heroic feat when all he had done was loitering around doing nothing. How could he get
that it had all boiled down to Derek
different vibe struck Penny about the whole matter. She reckoned that it was likely masterminded by
candidate for the job, other
she knew that it was all due to the influence of Thomas Dunn, whom of
for the third time. Their luck would run out
...
at the Royale Villa Residences,
the patriarch of the Smith family, together with Samuel Smith and Paul Smith, his eldest and his
“How could Mr. Harvey let Penny off the hook and, calling us up to inform us that he would continue to
guy like him has nothing to lose. Mr. Harvey knew better than
“It sickens me to the core whenever I hear her name. What have I done to deserve such a shameless granddaughter like her? She
up with a baneful suggestion, “Dad, since we’re having your seventieth birthday banquet tomorrow, why don’t we banish Benson and his
Wouldn’t it be an utter humiliation in front of our friends and relatives to let them
if we expel them from our family? It would look bad on us and make us look
the afternoon, Penny and her family were delighted to know that they had been invited to her grandpa’s
as part of the Smith family since Sean had given them the green light to
issue when they had tried to think of a
too cheap either, or it could reflect badly on us.” Penny suggested, “We should think of a present that is moderately priced, yet useful and meaningful to him
their brains to think of one, but it
finally made the bold call, “Why don’t you just leave it to me? I assure you that
him skeptically, “Do you really think that you can find a present that would
to do.” Nathan offered her
balcony, giving Colin Dunne a call, “I need a present for Sean Smith, who will celebrate his birthday tomorrow. The present doesn’t
Colin Dunne answered with absolute
...
The following day.
was a big day for Penny and her family, as they prepared themselves for
Penny asked Nathan whether he had the
smiled,
an inconspicuous,
was inside the box was a pill, all sealed up in plastic. It was almost the size
They dreaded to think of Sean’s response upon
could this tiny little pill be our birthday present? Are you out of your mind, Nathan?” Penny was on the
cultivated more than sixty years ago, its name is Phoenixia. It was made with the rarest and most precious medicinal herbs and ingredients that have a miraculous effect on illnesses caused by what we commonly termed
was a gift carefully chosen by Colin Dunne, as required by
Dunne knew that
plagued with the three highs; hypertension, high blood sugar, and high
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