Zuri Ginger pressed her lips and glanced at Ford, whispering, "I want so water."
"Water?" Ford was startled for a mont. The light in his hands illuminated her watery almond eyes, making him feel soft-hearted, and he quickly said, "I’ll go buy it for you."
As soon as he finished speaking, he felt sothing was off and laughed dryly, "I’ll buy it later."
Mia Ginger bit her lip, silently agreeing with his suggestion.
Ford leaned closer under the light and inhaled the scent from her neck, chuckling, "You sll really good."
Mia Ginger tilted her head slightly.
Today, she wore a wig, and its soft tips brushed against Ford’s face.
Excitedly, Ford raised his hand to embrace her. Just as one hand touched her shoulder, the compartnt door opened.
He quickly stepped back and stuffed a cloth in Mia Ginger’s mouth.
Charlotte Chester followed Ron King inside.
As soon as they entered, Charlotte started to scold, "Hmph, borrowing courage from heaven, if you want to go in, don’t drag down. One million, do you think one million is so easy to get? If it were, everyone in the world would be robbing!"
"Keep it down!" Ron King irritably reminded her.
"In this godforsaken place, we’ve seen no one for half a day, who are you afraid will hear?" Charlotte continued to curse angrily.
As they spoke, even her phone’s flashlight was turned on.
Mia Ginger could finally see her face clearly.
Charlotte Chester is not even fifty yet; she used to have an imposing presence in the Ginger Family, getting hairstyles, buying clothes, and beautifying herself every other day, as if maintaining appearance was life’s most crucial task.
But now—
She wore heavy makeup, seemingly trying to cover the dark bruises at the corners of her mouth, her hair was without any style, tied at the back like weeds.
Just a short period without seeing her, and she seed to have aged ten years.
Won are like delicate flowers; without nourishnt, they quickly wither.
Mia Ginger stared at her, sowhat lost in thought.
Ford stood by the side and asked Ron King, "Uncle, do you have any cigarettes?"
"I’m out," Ron King replied moodily, looking very agitated.
"I’ll go buy a pack then."
Yet—
After all, money is more important; a cigarette might help him calm down.
Ron King agreed, and Ford quickly went out to buy cigarettes.
He hadn’t been gone long when Ron King’s phone suddenly rang again.
It was Zuri Ginger.
Zuri Ginger also arrived and was angry as soon as the call connected, complaining about how difficult it was to find the place, with so many twists and turns.
Ford’s phone was being used for lighting, he hadn’t taken it.
Ron King instructed Charlotte Chester to go outside to pick up Zuri Ginger.
Charlotte refused to go.
Over the past decade, she had been Zuri Ginger’s adoptive mother, and their relationship was quite good. But now, being Zuri Ginger’s biological mother, their relationship had dramatically worsened, tensions flaring, argunts and even physical altercations upon eting.
She witnessed the humiliating incident Zuri Ginger orchestrated with Louis Cox’s n, and Zuri Ginger had the revolting photos too.
With their concealing layers stripped away, they were naturally uninhibited.
Not like mother and daughter, but more like enemies.
As Charlotte refused to go, Ron King had to curse and go himself.
In the compartnt, only Mia Ginger and Charlotte Chester remained.
Mia Ginger felt a bit uneasy.
Her uneasiness wasn’t because of Charlotte Chester, but because of the impending arrival of Zuri Ginger; Zuri Ginger had told Ron King not to call Aiden Jiang.
Evidently, she had other intentions.
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