Elaine trotted up the stairs to the second floor and tried to open the door to Charlie and Claire’s room. She grinned triumphantly when the doorknob twisted open easily.

Once she was inside the room, she began to rummage through their stuff.

However, it was their first day moving into the villa. They hadn’t had the time to keep their things in the closets and there was nothing valuable laying around.

Elaine searched for a long time but couldn’t find Charlie’s wallet nor bank card. Just when she was in the midst of frustration, her eyes blinked enthusiastically when she saw Charlie’s coat hanging in the closet. She hurried forward and rummaged through the pockets for a while. Finally, she found a black and gold bank card in one of the pockets.

The card was filled with words from some foreign language that she couldn’t comprehend except for the fact that the card was from Citibank.

know what kind of bank card it was even after looking at the cards back and forth carefully, but the card

don’t want to give me money, huh? That’s fine. I’ll take it myself! Also, if you had spoken in a slightly nicer tone just now, I might still leave you a few hundred dollars in your account, but you treated me so badly and even used Jacob as your leverage, I’m sorry, Mister, you’ve messed with the wrong

the thumping heart, Elaine quietly left the villa

***

idea that Elaine was gone with his card. His phone suddenly rang when he was scrubbing the plates and

gaped in excitement when he saw the indicator on the screen

eight years old. He would have died of starvation on

Mrs. Lewis and had never forgotten

muster the courage to borrow money from Lady Wilson during her birthday banquet because he wanted to collect funds for Mrs. Lewis’s kidney

Mrs. Lewis was transferred to Fairview Hospital in Eastcliff

went well and that she underwent an excellent recovery treatment thanks to Stephen’s arrangement. But he had not contacted Mrs. Lewis since then, as he did not want

quickly pressed the answer

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