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.

him could

is due to his conscience that has been haunting him with horrible nightmares,

such wee hours of the morning.” She shrugged, “He

had never skipped a prayer throughout her life. Hence she

explanation; he found it

with Leah when she proclaimed that Nathan was incapable of performing such a heroic feat when all he had done was loitering

boiled down to Derek Harvey’s own conscience,

matter. She reckoned that it was likely

would be no suitable candidate for the job, other than Thomas Dunn, who was a hundred times more ruthless and diabolical

that it was all due to the influence

again for the third time. Their luck would run out soon, and it was vital for Nathan to rein in his

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Smith and Paul Smith, his eldest and his third

found it simply outrageous,” Paul complained. “How could Mr. Harvey let Penny off the hook and, calling us up to inform us that he would

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

heard Samuel talk about Penny and Nathan. “It sickens me to the core whenever I hear her

since we’re having your seventieth birthday banquet tomorrow, why don’t we banish Benson and his family from attending the

in front of our friends and relatives to let them attend your

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 us

had been invited to her grandpa’s seventieth birthday banquet, which would

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

when they had tried to think of

we can’t afford something lavish, but we shouldn’t give him something too cheap either, or it could reflect badly on us.” Penny suggested, “We

think of one, but it was

leave it to me? I assure

skeptically, “Do you really think

know what to do.” Nathan offered her a confident

for Sean Smith, who will celebrate his birthday tomorrow. The present doesn’t have to be most

Colin Dunne answered with

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The following day.

big day for Penny and her family, as they prepared themselves

Nathan whether he

is.” Nathan smiled, unearthing a

an inconspicuous, worn-out

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

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

Are you out of your mind, Nathan?” Penny was on the

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

it was a gift carefully chosen by

on Sean Smith, Colin Dunne knew that

worry was his health since he was aging and plagued

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