Love At The Wrong Table

Chapter 43

Upon receiving the loan, Emmanuel went to pick up

Alessandra in a taxi.

“Mom, why did you come to Uncle Benny’s house?”

Emmanuel asked Alessandra when she emerged from

Benny’s residential area.

“I–It’s nothing! I wanted to inform him of your marriage

and invite him over for a meal just to get to know each

other better,” Alessandra lied with a sheepish smile.

In spite of that, Emmanuel knew that she must have

asked Benny for a loan. Moreover, she was hiding the

fact that she was rejected in order for him not to

resent his uncle.

Emmanuel had no illusions as to what kind of person

Benny was. Despite the latter’s wealth, he had never

lent them a single penny. If that wasn’t bad enough,

Benny’s family, being cheap, would take whatever they

fancied every time they dropped by Emmanuel’s home

for a visit.

“Mom, Mackenzie has given me thirty thousand. I can

afford to pay for your treatment now,” Emmanuel

informed her once she got into the car.

“What? You borrowed another thirty thousand?”

The news shocked Alessandra.

had told her

he had given to Frederick to pay for his mother’s medical fees.

them were best friends. However, she didn’t want Emmanuel to lose his wife on

of his friend.

does this mean that you didn’t give her

Or even something to seal

engagement with?”

I didn’t.” Emmanuel shook his head

of money, so this

isn’t

“Are you silly?”

Alessandra poked his

who doesn’t like

marries without giving a betrothal

is rich, you still have to gift her

seal the engagement!”

his intention. He just couldn’t afford it for the time being. If he ended up

worried that she

him because of that.

as Alessandra wanted to press her

caused her kidneys to hurt

out across her forehead as she

her upper abdomen.

please step on

urging the driver to hurry, Emmanuel tried

mother’s pain by applying pressure

acupoints.

the hospital ten minutes

into the internal medicine

Alessandra on his back.

the attention of

hospital entrance.

in the back seat of a

caught a glimpse of

the person Emmanuel carrying his mother?

Her condition looks

than mine.

have

alighted from the