"Yes... I'm on my way to the IP&G Group."
The sun was shining at noon, and a champagne-gold Rolls-Royce cruised towards the city center. Christina was sitting in the back seat, talking to Mr. Hopkins on the phone, "There's a high school reunion next week, and she happens to be an employee of the company."
"Patrick?" Mr. Hopkins on the other end of the phone suddenly asked.
The car window reflected Christina's slightly stunned expression and she said truthfully, "He's fine. He hasn't had a migraine for the past few days."
Before Mr. Hopkins hung up, he said, "Since you are at the company, give him a call..."
'Call Patrick?'
She touched the screen of her phone and looked at Patrick's number. She hesitated, but she still called him.
She put the phone close to her ear and she was nervous about what to say to him. However, Christina put her phone down after a while and her eyes were filled with an inexplicable sense of loss.
Patrick didn't answer her call.
She felt that she was stupid to be nervous just now. She thought she had been very sensitive lately.
[I'm in the lobby of the IP&G Group. I'm here to have lunch with my friend.] When the car arrived at the company, she got out of the car and casually edited a text message to send to Patrick.
After waiting for ten minutes, she didn't receive any reply, and Christina didn't care much. He should be busy.
She stepped into the lobby of the group. She didn't see Crystal last time, so Christina simply waited for her at the company this time.
When it was almost 12 o'clock, the staff began to go downstairs for lunch, so the five elevators on the west side began to get crowded.
"Crystal?"
Christina looked at a woman in a black dress at the door of the elevator and smiled.
After graduating from high school, they hadn't seen each other for almost seven years. Nonetheless, Crystal still looked the same as before.
in the company? It's a
soon as Christina approached, she heard a shrill female voice. A woman was taunting Crystal with
so harshly?" Christina directly shouted
voice, the two women who were quarreling turned
Crystal called out her name with some
face suddenly took on a ghastly expression. She
Looking at the woman's back, Christina felt as
Crystal whispered, "She was in the same class as us in
eyebrows slightly. No wonder she thought Sabrina
"She bullied you?"
Now, she had an angular face and she
Christina in a low voice, "My mom came
"What happened?"
look at her. Christina remembered that Crystal's mother remarried when she was very young. Her stepfather was very strict with her.
to a western restaurant and
getting
to
was not a rich man, but he was so shameless that he used the credit
a sip of the milk tea on the table and smiled bitterly, "My mother asked me for 300,000 dollars, but
mother. She has always been partial to my stepfather and stepbrother, and always feared that they will abandon her. She scolded me fiercely and said that I was too selfish and that even if I got married, I would have to rely on them. She told me I must give my stepbrother 300,000
little depressed. She picked up her chopsticks, put a vegetable leaf in her mouth, and chewed it. She
so it's normal that you don't have any savings. What's wrong with your mother? How can she ask you
when she saw that Christina was so angry that her face
class looked down on her and gossiped about her behind her back. Christina stood up, slapped her right hand at the desk,
her friend Christina because she was not scheming. She was
about my family. How are you? Where's your husband?" Crystal looked at her with a sly smile, "Christina, didn't you say that he works
phone vibrated and
in a meeting just now," Patrick
Was that an explanation?
was in a meeting. Christina was happy for no reason when