The Invincible Mercenary King

Chapter 16

“What happened to her?” Haylan asked.

“Well, she just hasn’t been doing too well. Don’t ask questions. You’ll understand when you see her over the weekend, Felicia said with a shake of her head. Tears glistened in her eyes again.

Haylan frowned slightly.

Since his mother refused to tell him anything else, it was obvious that she was afraid he would be too worried or get agitated and do something excessive.

It was clear that his sister was in bad shape.

At that moment, Haylan’s rage was directed toward Declan Jackett.

Every time he asked Declan to deliver money to his family, he would also give Declan a generous reward.

However. Declan grew greedy and pocketed all of the money. He also did not do anything that Havian had asked of him.

Declan’s greed caused so many problems for Haylan’s family.

At the thought. Haylan wished he could slap himself.

He thought. “Why was I so naive in the past? Why did I trust someone like Declan?”

Still holding the lunch box. Haylan said in a deep voice, “Mom, everything will be fine.”

“Yeah, as long as we still have each other, everything will be fine.” Felicia smiled and wiped the tears. from her eyes.

Haylan nodded. “Mom, I’ll go deliver the lunch box now.”

Felicia was right. As long as they still had each other, everything would be fine.

Haylan would get his money back from Declan in two days, and life would improve.

Before Haylan left the house, he opened the lunch box and looked inside.

However, he discovered that there were only a few pieces of meat.

He went back to the kitchen and asked with a frown, “Mom, why is there so little meat?”

There was still so much meat when Haylan and his father were eating earlier.

Felicia looked a little embarrassed and said in a low voice, “I already divided the rest of the meat. equally. Don’t forget that besides your little sister, you still have two younger brothers who also need.

to eat.”

me so much

back. It’s our duty to feed you well no inatter how poor

we really so short of money? Haylan was

to worry. I’ll get paid in two days, then I’ll buy you

two days’ worth of food that the couple had bought for Haylan already exceeded the cost of the family’s food for one week.

would feel guilty because of this, so she did not

gazed at Felicia and remained silent. He felt

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his chest.

the embarrassment and sadness beneath her façade. It was obvious that their family was short of money.

extent of his family’s poverty

a lot of money on his meals over

a moment, Haylan felt a mixture of guilt, discomfort, and anger toward

was located about two miles away from

younger sister, Queenie, went. She was in her third year of high

stay on campus to spend her time more effectively. Since she also did not want to waste time queueing for meals in the canteen,

the time Haylan arrived, lessons

through some study materials while

family’s poverty, she had no money to pay for the canteen food. Hence, she would study. while waiting for her mother to deliver meals to

her school uniform. She looked very youthful while

the prolonged lack of sufficient nutrition, Queenie looked slightly sallow and

mended and had many

deep. There seemed to be a

thin his sister looked, he felt uncomfortable.

him everywhere had grown into a very thin-looking woman. should have enjoyed a good life

She

have enough food and could not always afford to dress

ached so badly that it felt like it was being torn apart. He thought, “I must make Declan cough up the money as soon as possible.”

now needed money more urgently than ever, and he needed

for your beggar of a mother to deliver her

student, who had dyed hair and was wearing a school uniform, appeared. He looked Queenie up and down with mocking

I was taken aback? Her hair was all white. I thought it was

poor. Why do you bother

study, you are doomed to live in poverty. What’s the

him were two other male and female students, all of whom were looking at Queenie

up at the student with blond hair. “Lucas Lynch, what do

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son. He came from a rich and influential family. He was also a notorious bully in