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.

like him could get Mr. Harvey to show

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

up at such wee hours of the

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

explanation;

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 even get himself a

boiled down to Derek Harvey’s own conscience, which had prompted him

that it was

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

she knew that it was all due to the

help them again for the third time. Their luck would run out soon, and it was vital for Nathan

...

at the Royale Villa Residences,

with Samuel Smith and Paul

“How could Mr. Harvey let Penny off the hook and, calling us up to inform us

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

Nathan. “It sickens me to the core whenever I hear her name. What have I done to deserve such a shameless granddaughter like her? She has utterly ruined our

birthday banquet tomorrow, why don’t we banish Benson and his family from attending the party, using this opportunity to

be an utter humiliation in front of our friends and

had the leniency to 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

to know that they had been invited to her grandpa’s seventieth birthday banquet,

of the Smith family since Sean had given them

a thorny issue when they had tried to think of

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

of one, but it

finally made the bold call, “Why don’t you just leave it to me? I assure

you sure about this?” Penny eyed him skeptically, “Do you really think that you can find

me, I know what to do.” Nathan

a call, “I need a present for Sean Smith, who will celebrate his birthday tomorrow. The present doesn’t have to be most lavish, but it must be

Colin Dunne

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The following day.

day for Penny and her

as they were about to leave the house, Penny asked Nathan whether he had the present ready. It had almost slipped

is.” Nathan smiled,

was an inconspicuous,

up in plastic. It was almost the size

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

of your mind, Nathan?” Penny was on the verge of tearing at

pill 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

was a gift carefully chosen by Colin Dunne,

on Sean Smith, Colin Dunne knew that Sean was flushed with cash; he was never short

his health since he was aging and plagued with the three highs; hypertension, high blood

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