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

with horrible nightmares, reminding him of what karma would befall on him if

he showed up at such wee hours of the morning.” She shrugged, “He was merely following his conscience, that’s

throughout her life. Hence she would attribute all unexplained events to karma,

was skeptical of Leah’s explanation;

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 Derek Harvey to show up and apologize, let alone if he could not

boiled down to Derek

that it

monster to kill a monster. There would be no suitable candidate for the job, other than Thomas Dunn, who was a hundred times

due to the influence of Thomas Dunn, whom of

them again for the third time. Their

...

Villa

Paul Smith, his eldest and

hook and, calling us up to

is a shrewd businessman. I bet that he would not want to meddle with Penny’s lunatic boyfriend A mad and penniless guy like him has nothing to lose. Mr. Harvey knew better than to waste his time with that hooligan, subjecting himself to unnecessary risk.” Samuel explained, “It’s better for him to drop it altogether and let

scornful grimace the moment he heard Samuel talk about Penny and Nathan. “It sickens me to the core whenever I hear her name. What have I done to deserve

why don’t we banish Benson and

Wouldn’t it be an utter humiliation in front of our friends and relatives to let

let them off the hook, what would others think of us if we expel them from our family? It would look bad on us and make us look petty and callous if they compare

Penny and her family were delighted to know that they had been invited to her grandpa’s seventieth

that they were still regarded as part of the Smith family since Sean had

was a thorny issue when they had tried to think of a suitable birthday present for

give him something too cheap either, or it could reflect badly on us.” Penny suggested, “We should think of a present that is moderately priced,

their brains to think of one, but it was easier

just leave it to me? I assure you that

him skeptically, “Do you really think that you can

know what to do.” Nathan

need a present for Sean Smith, who will celebrate his birthday tomorrow.

Colin Dunne answered with

...

The following day.

big day for Penny and her family, as they prepared themselves for Sean’s birthday

to leave the house, Penny asked Nathan whether he had the

Nathan smiled, unearthing a

was an inconspicuous, worn-out

the box was a pill, all sealed up in plastic. It was almost the size of

of Sean’s response upon seeing such a preposterous present at his seventieth

pill be our birthday present? Are you out of your mind, Nathan?”

was 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 as the three highs - hypertension, high blood sugar, and high cholesterol. These are the three harmful killers that could lead to

gift carefully chosen by Colin Dunne, as required by

that Sean was flushed with cash; he

plagued with the three highs; hypertension, high blood sugar, and

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