Chapter 264 The Beggar (2/2)

Although they were neither kith nor kin, she felt terrible when she saw him eating leftovers like a stray dog.

Wiping his lips with his dirty sleeves, Patrick snorted a

When her boyfriend betrayed her, all light and joy was gone from Cherry’s life. Deserted, bereft of hope, she married a man that she had barely met, but she had never expected him to be her ex-boyfriend’s uncle.

Cherry thought that she had finally found her happiness, but she had no idea about the dark secrets that were bound to unfold and haunt her forever...

achel went inside first and she glanced at Chad who was sitting in the car before she went inside.

She knew Chad had seen everything that had happened outside the restaurant that evening.

Chad had seen it all but had kept quiet.

After she went inside, Hiram turned to Chad and asked,”Did anything happen before I arrived?”

He had noticed that Rachel looked disconcerted when he got to the restaurant, and he was wondering what made her upset.

Chad hesitated for a moment and said without looking at Hiram,”She ran into Patrick Yan there and saw him eating somebody else's leftovers. She gave him a card. I think she was too softhearted to see him suffer.”

Hiram narrowed his eyes and brushed his nose with his finger. After a long pause, he asked,”Did you hear what they were talking about?”

”Rachel said she wouldn't stand by without doing anything, even if it was not Patrick, but someone else she knew,” Chad answered Hiram truthfully.

Chad knew that Hiram was scheming to get rid of Patrick and when Rachel was talking with him, he had half a mind to stop her.

But he didn't on second thoughts.

”Did Patrick tell her that it was me who put him in such a position?” Hiram asked as he rolled down the window shades, looking at the city lights.

”Yes, he did. But Rachel said the winner took it all and business was a war without bullets,” Chad said frankly. But at the same time, he feared Hiram and Rachel would argue because of this incident.

Hiram opened the door, stepped one leg off and said,”Go back and take a good rest. Wait for my call tomorrow.”