Christina sat on a chair at the dining table with a sumptuous breakfast in front of her.
However, she had no appetite and didn't eat much.She looked sullen and was very upset.She wanted
to get up from her chair immediately and go to the living room to question him.
However, she suddenly felt a sense of timidity and was afraid to know something bad.
"What are you thinking?"
"You're not thinking about your auntie, are you?"
Charles, who was sitting on the other side of the table, was full now.
He wiped his lips with a napkin and looked up at her.He felt that the woman looked a little strange and
asked her in an unkind tone.
Christina was stunned for a moment.
She immediately remembered that she had sneaked back to the Hopkins Family.
It was almost 7 a.m. and her aunt had already gotten up.
She would definitely be scolded and become even more depressed.
Forget it, it might be better for her to take the initiative to plead guilty.
"Charles, lend me your phone."
"Christina, did you come back on your own initiative, or..."
"Hand me your phone"
She didn't want to dawdle with him and urged him.
Charles did not hand his phone over but looked at her suspiciously.
"I'm asking you very seriously now.Did you come back voluntarily? It's very important."
"I sneaked back myself and was waiting to be scolded.You're being so womanishly fussy.Give me the
phone"
She didn't think too far ahead.She just thought that this guy wanted to gloat at her misfortune.
Charles raised his eyebrows and smiled as if he was satisfied with her answer.He generously took out
his phone from his pocket and handed it to her.
However, a maid hurried towards Christina at this moment, accompanied by a familiar ringtone.
"Mrs.Hopkins, there's a new call."
The maid brought her own phone over so she naturally didn't need to use Charles's.
She took the vibrating phone and glanced at the screen.Then she immediately showed a guilty look on
her face.
It was her aunt.
"Tell her that you're eloping with Patrick and tell her not to mess around.The second daughter of the
Eisenhower Family is really..."
Charles couldn't help complaining.
Betty Eisenhower was really hard to understand.
Christina glared at him and warned him to shut up.
She nervously touched the phone's answer key and called out obediently.
"Auntie."
Betty didn't get angry when she heard her voice.She just said two words calmly.
"Come back!"
Christina held the phone and tensed up for a moment.
After hesitating for two seconds, she whispered, "Auntie, I want to stay in the Hopkins family”
Her voice was very low as if she was guilty of making a mistake like this.Charles was furious at her
cowardice! What was she doing? She had been bossing around all day but now was so obedient.He
was very dissatisfied with her now.Fortunately, Patrick and Chandler were in the living room so they
didn't see her look now.
"Christina, are you a little baby? Can't you make your own decision? Would you divorce Patrick if Betty
asks you to do so?"
Charles yelled at her with a gloomy look, not caring that anyone on the other end of the phone could
hear him.He just wanted Betty to hear it clearly.
If it weren't for the fact that she was Christina's aunt, they wouldn't have tolerated her so much.
Did she really think that anyone would dare to bully them? "Christina, come back now"
Betty's voice on the other end of the phone was clearly tinged with anger.
"I."
She looked awkward and tried to explain, "Patrick is actually not that difficult to get along with.He is
only quite cold to strangers.Auntie, you will accept him if you stay with him for a long time.He is
different from my father Donald."
"He's worse than Donald"
The one on the other end of the phone seemed to be stimulated.She retorted anxiously.
"What kind of good person can Victor and Judy's son be? Maybe you believe him but I won't! Christina
didn't know how to answer for a moment.She could feel that Betty's anger was on the verge of
exploding.Betty would lose control of her emotions so easily every time she mentioned something
about the Hopkins family.She really didn't understand.
Betty took a few deep breaths and softened her voice as she found Christina didn't say anything.
"Christina, I'm doing this for your own good.Patrick is really not the right man for you."
"I know whether if he is the right man for me."
She didn't mean to contradict Betty and almost blurted out the words.
Betty immediately hung up the phone just as she said this.
Christina looked at the screen of the phone and subconsciously wanted to call back.
Finally, she put the phone on the table and leaned back in her chair.
She looked a little struggling and a little lost.
Charles shouted impatiently seeing her disappointed expression, "What hatred does Betty have with
the Hopkins family?"
"I don't know..."
She was annoyed and frowned.She kept thinking about whether her aunt had had any problems with
the Hopkins family but she really didn't recall anything.
"Auntie seems to hate Patrick's father very much."
This was Patrick's late father's name which was so unfamiliar to her.
"Victor.." She repeated the name but still couldn't recall anything.
"Victor!"
On the other end of the phone, Betty showed an extremely horrible look.She gritted her teeth and said
this name.She was filled with anger and could not vent it.She clenched the phone tightly and kept
tightening it.
"The Hopkins family is completely out of our league and we're not gonna be hurt by them again..."
"I must get Christina out of his way”
She was a little confused and tense.She stomped her feet back and forth in the living room and
mumbled something anxiously.
"I must make sure that she and the Hopkins family make a thorough break."
Paul was originally busy in the Main Residence but he was now heading to the Eastern Garden when
he heard that Christina was back and Charles and Chandler had come early in the morning.
Just halfway there, a male worker from the Hopkins family rushed over to him and said that a woman
had called the old master.
"Senior Mr.Hopkins's phone number hasn't been used for many years."
Paul didn't believe it at first but his workers wouldn't dare to lie.
After thinking for a while, he asked in a deep voice, "Who is it? Did she mention her name?"
"Yes, she said her name was Betty Eisenhower."
"Betty Eisenhower?"
Paul looked quite surprised all of a sudden.
That was Christina Dickens's aunt.
What made him even more curious was that the second daughter of the Eisenhower family would know
Senior Mr.Hopkins's phone number.
Ever since Senior Mr.Hopkins officially announced that Patrick would take over the group, his phone
number had been less frequently used in the past ten years.
Gradually, he started to deal with his official businesses and his old friends' connections using the
landline number in the Main Residence.
Senior Mr.Hopkins was a nostalgic person and it was not difficult for them to keep a cell phone number.
He could keep the number as a memorial as long as he sent someone to charge the phone and pay
the phone bill frequently.
Paul thought for a while and sent the servant away.
"Give me the phone.You can go back to work now: He then hurriedly turned around and went back to
the Main Residence.In the grand living room of the Hopkins family, the energetic old man in a black
gold Tang suit was sitting in the middle of the sofa.He leaned sideways fiddling with the festive
invitations to be used for the full-moon-birth banquet of his child's birth.
"Old master, the second daughter of the Eisenhower family called you and said she had something to
talk to you about, '' Paul said in a calm voice while stepping forward and handing over a black phone
which was in call.
Senior Mr.Hopkins suddenly stopped tidying up the invitation cards and raised his head.
He showed a surprised look on his old and dignified face.
"Christina's aunt?"
"Yes," Paul showed a sophisticated expression.
"Betty said she had something important to talk to you about"
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