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.”

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

in unless they come to us and plead for it. Not

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 with an apology. It had turned out to be

seemed to materialize again when he said that Samuel and his men would come back for

always kept his

be upfront with me and tell me what’s this all about,” Penny demanded with a scrutinizing

with

“What made you think that Samuel would come and beg us for that pill? How did you know that

Benson and Leah to fix their

was mulling over what should be the best birthday present for Sean, I heard that he had

to give

the pill, it all began at

is the largest cause which has led people with such medical conditions to fall ill, hence I’ve secretly feared

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

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

skeptical about the whole matter, the explanation from Nathan

Phoenixia can work wonders for those illnesses

does.”

presume that it would

such an ancient pill these days,” Nathan acknowledged with a smile, “the last time they saw one was

Ten million!

gasped in awe

thing,” Benson immediately handed back the pill to Nathan, “you’d better

cost a few bucks in the old days.” Nathan explained, “Now its price has soared to some astronomical figure, thanks to those

in the old days was still quite a sum of

been with my family.” Nathan gave a beguiling wink, “It wasn’t

has become so precious now. You’d better take

Sean’s condition.

to Penny and

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