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

conscience that has been haunting him with horrible nightmares, reminding him of what karma would befall on

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

had never skipped a prayer throughout her

skeptical of Leah’s explanation; he found

that Nathan was incapable of performing such a heroic feat when all he had done was loitering around doing nothing.

boiled down to Derek Harvey’s own conscience, which

struck Penny about the whole matter. She reckoned that it

kill a monster. There would be no suitable candidate for the job, other than

was all due to the influence of

for Thomas Dunn to help them again for the third time. Their luck would run out soon, and it

...

the Royale Villa Residences,

Smith, the patriarch of the Smith family, together with Samuel Smith and Paul Smith, his eldest and his third son, was having a conversation in

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

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

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

a baneful suggestion, “Dad, since we’re having your seventieth birthday banquet tomorrow, why don’t we banish Benson and his family from

in front of

come.” Sean waved his hands in disagreement, “Now that Mr. Harvey had the leniency to let them off the hook, what would others think of us if we expel them from

invited to her grandpa’s seventieth birthday banquet, which would be held at the

were still regarded as part of the Smith family since Sean had given them the green

it was a thorny issue when they had tried to think of a suitable

badly on us.” Penny suggested, “We should think of a present

think of one, but it was

to me? I assure you that we’ll give Sean

eyed him skeptically, “Do you really think that you can find a present that would please grandpa

do.” Nathan offered her a confident

Smith, who

Sir!” Colin Dunne answered with

...

The following day.

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

Nathan whether he had the present ready. It had almost

it is.” Nathan smiled,

an inconspicuous,

inside the box was a pill, all sealed up in plastic.

think of Sean’s response upon seeing such a

pill be our birthday present? Are you out of your mind, Nathan?” Penny was on the verge of tearing at

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.

carefully chosen by Colin Dunne,

Sean Smith, Colin Dunne knew that Sean was flushed with cash;

plagued with the three highs;

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