Chapter 10

Back in the Cloud Palace, Nathan was enjoying his lunch together with Penny and her family, soaking in some wonderful, quality family time.

Suddenly, the Benson’s phone let out a loud shrill.

He could not believe his eyes when he saw the number on the screen, “Wait, it’s Samuel calling. Why would he call me all of a sudden?”

“My instincts tell me he must have called for the pill,” Nathan stressed out, with an indiscernible curl of his lips.

With that being said, he laid out the pill on the table. The pill had been sealed up to preserve its freshness and effect.

It had dawned upon Benson and his family that Nathan had seen this coming when he had said that it would be a matter of time for Samuel and his men to come begging for the pill.

With a smidgen of skepticism in his eye, Benson put the call on speaker mode, “Hello?”

Samuel’s voice resonated across the other end of the call, “Benson, dad is in terrible shape now and he needs Phoenixia to save his life. Bring the pill over now, right away.”

Benson’s startled eyes grew bigger and rounder when he heard Samuel’s quivering voice asking for the pill - It’s true! Nathan had hit the bullseye again!

He flashed an unbelievable look at Nathan and was about to open his mouth to agree to Samuel’s request.

Benson had always been wary of his elder brother; he would never dare to defy Samuel.

Leah snatched the phone away before he could say a word. “Huh! So you’re asking for Phoenixia now?” She cried scornfully, “Didn’t you guys throw it on the floor and say that it was a rotten pill? And you even told us to save it for ourselves?”

“What makes you think that you can just take it back now since you’ve treated it like dirt?”

“Don’t think that it’ll be so easy to take it back just like this. Come and beg us if you really want it!”

With an angry grunt, she hung up the call.

The phone shrilled again the moment she hung up; it was Samuel again.

She switched off the phone altogether, along with her own and Penny’s phone. “Didn’t they just put us to shame in front of our friends and relatives when they’d dumped our present to the floor?” The red-faced Leah spoke agitatedly, “Not to mention how they singled us out by making us sit outside the banquet, feeding us with leftovers.”

demand us to hand over the pill as if they have every right

way I’m going to give in unless they come to us and plead

could not tear her eyes away from Nathan. It was unfathomable to her how he could say things with absolute accuracy. This was just like the previous occasion when he expected that Mr. Harvey would show up at their door

again when he said that Samuel and his men would come back for the pill, and he

always kept his word; his prediction was never

be upfront with me and tell me what’s this

you talking about?” chided Nathan with a lighthearted smile, feeding Queenie with her

give me that look.” Penny puffed at him, “What made you think that Samuel would come and beg us for that

to fix

heard that he had a medical condition of the three highs, which

why I wanted to give him the

the pill, it all began at the banquet when I saw him offering

people with such medical

that Samuel and the rest would be bound to find out about Phoenixia from the doctor, should anything have happened to Sean. That’s why I said that he would come

had just unlocked the greatest mystery on earth, Benson and Leah gave out a revelatory expression after

feeling skeptical about the whole matter, the explanation from

illnesses caused by

it really does.”

it would cost a

a smile, “the last time they saw

Ten million!

and her family gasped in awe when they heard

immediately handed back the pill

bucks in the old days.” Nathan explained, “Now its price has soared to some astronomical figure, thanks to those rich men who had found out about its miraculous effects and wanted it for the

days was still quite a sum of money for this pill. How did you get the pill,

with my family.” Nathan gave a beguiling

precious now. You’d better take it back and make sure you keep

do with Sean’s condition. Why don’t we let Benson decide on what to do with it?” Nathan suggested with a friendly

obvious to Penny and her

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