Ginny turned around quickly, fuming. She pointed at Manager Lee and looked at Eric and Jett.“Don’t let this man from nowhere scare you!” she said boldly. “He’s only trying to act big, but he can’t do anything. He’s not the owner of this place. He’s just a worker and a staff! He’s nothing compared to us.”Manager Lee raised an eyebrow but didn’t say anything.“The good thing is…” Ginny continued with a smirk. “I already recorded everything he said. Every single thing. I have it on my phone right here.” She waved her phone in the air.Eric’s eyes widened. “What?! Ginny, why did you…?”“We’ll take it to the police,” Ginny said, ignoring him. “We’ll show them how he tried to threaten us and with this, he’ll rot in jail. He thinks he can talk to us like that? He’s finished.”Eric rubbed both hands over his head in frustration. All he wanted was to show off the penthouse and impress his friends, especially Ginny but now, everything was ruined. He had never been this stressed before.May

Eric turned slowly and saw Nolan standing a little far from him and he was just standing there, staring at him. Eric’s eyes narrowed at him.“What do you think you’re looking at?” Eric shouted, walking up to him fast.He pushed Nolan hard in the chest. “Have you been standing here just to watch me fail? Are you going to run to school and tell everyone what happened? Is that your plan?”Nolan stood his ground and didn’t move back but he looked annoyed.“I’m not even the person you should be talking to right now,” Nolan said with a small frown. “You know I’m not like that. I don’t go around telling everyone about people’s secrets and business like you do.”Eric’s jaw tightened because he hated that Nolan was right. “You should be more worried about Ginny,” Nolan added. “She saw everything. She saw how you gave the card back to Manager Lee and she saw how you begged him not to tell your father. If anyone is going to run their mouth, it’s Ginny, not me.”Eric bit his lip hard. He knew N

Jayla was the daughter of Nolan’s uncle and aunt. She wasn’t his real sister, but Nolan treated her like his blood. They grew up together, and he loved her like family. So when he heard her crying on the phone, scared and panicking, it made his heart drop. It meant that something was clearly very wrong, and it made him afraid.Her voice was shaky from crying and her words were hard to hear.“Jayla,” Nolan said gently, trying to stay calm. “Can you calm down a bit and tell me clearly what’s going on? I need you to breathe and talk slowly. What exactly happened to Uncle? What’s going on right now?”Jayla sniffed loudly on the other end of the line. She was crying hard. “Okay… okay… I’ll try,” she said, taking a deep breath.“So I came home today, and I saw Dad lying down on the bed. He looked really pale, and he was sweating a lot. I got scared and asked him what was wrong, but he told me he was fine. He said everything was okay. So I didn’t push it. I thought maybe he had just done to

Nolan’s aunt slowly walked out of the doctor’s office with a face that looked pale. Her eyes were red and full of tears. She looked like someone who had just heard the worst news in the world. As soon as Jayla saw her mother, she quickly ran up to her.“Mum! What’s wrong?” she cried. “What did the doctor say? Please talk to me. What’s going on with dad?”But before her mother could even speak, Jayla’s two aunties, Nolan’s aunt’s sisters walked over too. Jayla had called them earlier on the phone to tell them something was wrong with her dad, so they had rushed over to the hospital.They all stood together in the hallway, staring at Nolan’s aunt as she stood there shaking.“Mum, please talk,” Jayla begged again, her eyes wide and full of fear. “What did the doctor say?”Nolan’s aunt took a deep breath, but tears still fell down her cheeks. She opened her mouth slowly, then said in a weak voice, “Your father has a very bad sickness. A cancerous tumor, in his brain.”Jayla gasped and

Cynthia, you don’t have to say all of that,” the first aunt said, shaking her head. “Don’t you think you’re being too harsh? I think you need to calm down a little?”Cynthia turned sharply toward her and narrowed her eyes.“Too harsh?” she repeated loudly. “Did you really just say I’m being too harsh? Wow. Have you forgotten what I went through? Or weren’t you standing right there when your sister’s husband insulted me in front of everybody?”Cynthia looked around at their faces and scoffed. “So now you all want me to pretend like it didn’t happen? You think I’ll just smile, open my bank app, and give away my money like it’s nothing? Just like that?”She stepped back and placed both hands on her waist.“Do you know how hard I worked to make my money? Do you know the sleepless nights I had? The jobs I had to do? And now someone from nowhere is begging me to just give it away? For what?”She looked at Jayla on the floor and laughed dryly.“If it’s that easy to make money, then you try