He raised his hand and signaled the girl to pause, and then he picked up his phone and answered it, "Hello, Sergio. What's the matter? Is something up?"An urgent voice could be heard saying on the other end of the phone, "Mister Yates, I am now in the county next to where you're at. I'm in a valley that's even further away from the county you're in. I heard that there are plenty of—""Wait for me there! No matter if Yvonne is in that village in the mountains or not, I have to personally make a trip there. Just in case I can meet her there. Even if I had to risk my life, I have to take her away. Sergio, wait for me. I'll come as soon as I can!" Kingston said with great urgency.Upon saying that, he started putting his suit on."What's the matter?" asked the girl."I'm sorry. Stay at this hotel today. Something's come up, so I have to go. I may not return today," Kingston said to the girl hurriedly."You're looking for your family, right?" the girl asked."I've got to go. Recuper
The venomous snake had already run away very quickly. Kingston only saw the tail of that snake. It was a brown snake with darker brown diamonds on its back. The snake seemed to be a rattlesnake. Rattlesnakes seemed to be highly venomous.In that instant, Kingston was completely in a daze.He was good in combat and had never feared anyone wherever he went. His body had always been in tip-top shape as he had been training since childhood, so he hardly ever got sick growing up.Also, driven by Master Sebastian, he had been having body checkups every year and his body never had any big issues.Kingston had never thought that he would be a short-lived person. He thought that he would at least not die before he found his cousin. However, he had never expected that life would be so unpredictable.He did not die protecting Master Sebastian. He did not die of sickness. He also did not freeze and starve to death in his poorest and most dejected days.However, he would be dying in that vall
Sometimes, it would be her mother's eldest sister calling her, and sometimes, it would her mother's second sister. Sometimes, it would be those two cousins, who were her maternal uncle's children. Other times, it would be her other cousins, who were her maternal aunts' children, and so on.If they had called a couple of times, the girl simply did not answer the calls. If they had called too many times, she would sometimes directly switch her phone off.However, after she switched off her phone for a while, she would switch it back on again."Since you don't wish to pick up their calls, why don't you just switch off your phone?" Kingston asked her.The girl shook her head miserably. "That won't do. I'm still looking for a job. If I were to keep my phone switched off for a long time, I would lose the job opportunity should I have any. I was working in another town. I quit my job when I came back two months ago. It's truly very difficult for girls like me, who are uncultured and have
The girl cried very hard while shaking her head. "Do you believe that I'm not an ungrateful person?""Of course, you're not an ungrateful person. How would an ungrateful person save my life?" Kingston said softly.The girl cried even harder when she heard that. "But they, all of my relatives from my maternal family, said…that both my younger brother and I have…no conscience and are ungrateful."They said that we were unappreciative. Even my mother looked down on…me, my brother, and my father.""How so? What exactly is going on? Tell me slowly. Take your time. I'll see if I can help you after you tell me everything," Kingston asked in confusion.Kingston's gentle voice encouraged the girl. Her tears were slightly reduced, but her voice became incomparably hoarse.In the hospital ward where only the two of them were present, the girl told Kingston about her family matter.The girl's name was Eevonne York. It was pronounced the same way as Yvonne, but it was spelled differently. Ee
Kingston could not imagine how it feels for a mother not to love her own children.Subconsciously, Kingston raised his arm and put the girl in his arms. He did not intend to do anything indecent to her. It was just a natural expression for him. He wanted to comfort her and give her strength.The girl did not object either. Perhaps she was too tired and emotionally exhausted. She was feeling very aggrieved, so she bawled her eyes out in Kingston's arms."Do you know how inferior both my brother and I got after we've been laughed at by our cousins? You have no idea! Not only was my mother very harsh on my brother and me when it came to food and kept satisfying her family, but it came to clothes as well. We were already very tight on budget for clothes and we didn't have much money left over after a year, to begin with. My father originally wanted to buy new clothes for my brother and me, but my mother took the money meant for our new clothes and gave it to my grandparents," she cried.
Kingston was shocked. "You…can't be working in that kind of profession, right?"That was Kingston's first reaction. At the same time, he was worrying because Yvonne also had no one to rely on and was at her wit's end. He wondered what kind of job she would be working to support herself and both her children. All of the thoughts in his mind were negative.Eevonne smiled miserably. "Kingston, even you think that way. You can imagine what my family and my relatives think about me, right?"Kingston's expression was darkened and also surprised as he looked at her. "If you're not working that kind of job, then you are?"At that moment, Kingston did not understand what Eevonne meant.There was a kind of pride in her tone that was not easily detected. "Kingston, it may be unexpected to you, but I'm actually a very intelligent girl. I'm very intelligent when it comes to learning and acceptance. It was just that I had low self-esteem when I was a student and my family was so poor that I cou
"They felt that my clothes were dirty, I was smelly, silly, and I have always been looking down on the floor when I walked, so how could I be more successful than their children? My mother used the money I had sent her in the first month to buy new clothes for my grandparents, my uncle and his wife, and also my cousins. She even bought them lamb, ham, and all sorts of gifts. She had spent more than a thousand dollars and she went to my grandparent's house. In the end, her spirits were dampened by my uncle and his wife."Kingston could not help but ask, "She brought so many gifts to your grandparent's house, but she was still not welcomed?""My uncle and aunt had no problems with my mother. They have always known that my mother is a good person. Not only them, but even the people in my grandparent's village knew that my mother is a good daughter, a good sister, and a good aunt. The person they slandered was not my mother but me. Do you know what my uncle and aunt said about me?" Eevon
Kingston looked at the girl before him nervously. He was thinking that no matter what had the girl done in the past, he would not dislike her for it. She would still be her friend and would still treat her as his own benefactor. That was because it was truly difficult to judge if a person was good or bad. Even if she was a criminal in prison, she would also have her good side.Take Sabrina, for example. She had been imprisoned for a few years in the past. Could that be enough to determine that Sabrina was a bad and despicable person who deserved to be condemned?No.It was quite the opposite. Sabrina was an incredibly proud, kind, and good person who bore no ill-will toward others.Kingston looked at the girl in front of him with an even gentler gaze and said in a tone that was just as incredibly gentle, "Eevonne, no matter what kind of job you've done in the past that you're going to be telling me next, in my eyes, you're a good girl. You'll forever be my benefactor. I have seen t