Christina hadn't been herself recently.She hadn't talked to anyone since she'd met Crystal and
Chandler's son last week.
The whole world was busy, but she seemed to lose her direction suddenly.She called Crystal to ask her
to go shopping.
"Chandler has been working on a big project with the Hopkins Group recently.He's always away on
business, so he left Geoffrey to me.That boy is so annoying, and I don’t have any free time now"
Crystal complained.
"Are you calling to ask me to go shopping with you?"
Crystal thought about it and decided that her friend was more important, so she said, "Chandler came
back last night.He's in the study now.I'll go talk to him.Hold on"
Crystal was about to rush to the study to ask her boss for leave when the doorbell rang.
Who would it be at this time? Crystal had already taken herself as the servant in this house and turned
to answer the door first.
When she pulled the door open, both she and the woman outside the door were stunned.
"Stop staring like a fool and go make tea"
Chandler said, walking out of his study.
The two women came back to their senses due to his voice.
Crystal then forced a smile and said politely, "Come in.I'll make you some tea."
Crystal quickly made tea in the living room and left tactfully.
She couldn't help but cast a glance at Chandler as she walked away.Why was Barbara here?
"Why is she here?"
Barbara was as curious as she was.
Chandler replied casually without changing his countenance, "She's my maid."
"Crystal is your maid?"
Barbara gasped incredulously.
Crystal had worked for her before so she knew that Crystal could absolutely get a better job than being
a maid.
Thinking that Crystal was Christina's good friend, she shot a glance at the kitchen and asked jokingly,
"Are you and she in a relationship?"
As if he hadn't heard his question, Chandler shouted at the kitchen with a serious face, "Miss Zhu,
Geoffrey's teacher called me saying that he needed to have a word with me.You go to the school now
and tell me everything after you come back."
Crystal was trying to eavesdrop on them but only heard her boss send her on an errand again.Her face
darkened.
How could he take it for granted that she should go? It was on the weekend and she had no overtime
pay.
But she'd quit fighting for her rights and mumbled reluctantly, "I see."
"Is it Barbara?"
Christina hadn't hung up and heard the faint sound from Crystal's side.
"Yep"
Crystal said, "I heard that she was promoted again in the IP&G Group.I think she’s here to talk to
Chandler about the project."
Christina listened quietly and answered lethargically, "Mmm.Crystal asked her if she wanted to go out
to the kindergarten with her but she refused.She would inevitably think too much when she saw these
kids.
After hanging up the phone, Christina took another antidepressant pill.
The empty house made her listless and she decided to hang around a bit to figure out what she should
do next.
Betty had called her yesterday, asking if she had plans to leave the city for a new place.
Christina didn't want to leave but she didn't know why.
At least she wouldn't leave now.
It was in early September but the wind was already freezing.She wondered if it was because the winter
had come early this year or because she'd become weaker.
With an overcoat and a scarf, she was shivering while walking along the street.
Christmas was approaching and many stores played Christmas songs and had Christmas trees laden
with decorations outside the doors.
The Santa Claus in red could be seen everywhere.
She hadn't celebrated Christmas for many years.She watched parents and children chattering and
laughing with teary eyes.
It seemed that she would never experience such happiness.She walked aimlessly along the street.
When she passed an alley, she heard the noise of fighting and stopped in her tracks.She turned to the
right with a baffled expression.
Aman and a woman were fighting.
The man was at least 1.8 meters tall, strong and sturdy, dark-complexioned.
Muscles bulged on his arms and he had a heavy iron bar in his right hand.He brought the bar up with a
ferocious face and swung it to the woman's head.
Christina was dumbfounded.
That woman looked slender and would definitely be beaten to a pulp by that man.
However, to Christina's great surprise, that woman dodged that man's attack with lightning speed.
Christina didn't even see clearly how she'd moved.
The woman grabbed the man's wrist and with a twist, the man’s face turned pale and his wrist seemed
to be broken.
The bar fell to the ground with a bang.
Christina was awestruck by this woman and saw her side face.She was the woman named Lucy she'd
met the other day.
When Christina thought the fight was over, Lucy seized the man by the scruff of the neck single-
handedly and banged his head on the wall again and again until his face was covered with blood.
The man struggled but Lucy directly broke his left arm.
The cracking sound of the bone was frightening.
The man roared frantically but got his throat clutched.
It looked like Lucy could break his neck any second.
Christina recoiled in fear but kicked an empty can, making a crisp clang.
"Come out!"
Lucy shouted in Christina's direction.
Lucy's hand stilled.She had an exquisite face and always had a faint smile on her lips, but her eyes
were sharp and fierce.
Christina didn't move.
She heard a thud when Lucy threw the limp man on the dirty ground and then Lucy's approaching
steps.
Lucy was about twenty meters from her and she didn't escape, knowing that she couldn't outrun this
woman.
"Miss Dickens, it's you" Lucy spoke to her in a relaxed tone as though she was an old friend.
Christina's heart thumped and she looked at Lucy warily.
She'd been trained to fight for self-defense since a young age and was good at karate.
Who on earth was this Lucy? Christina assumed composure and asked, "You know me?"
"Yeah, we met a long time ago.Have you forgotten me completely?"
Lucy smiled innocently.
Then she gestured at her abdomen and continued, "You had a baby on the way back then."
Lucy looked straight into her eyes with a weird smile and sounded derisive.
"When was that?" Christina asked in a quavering voice.
Lucy's gaze made her skin crawl.
Lucy did not answer her.
Instead, she raised her eyebrows and asked her in a friendly manner, "By the way, did you go to the
hospital to look into Steven and the other doctors?"
She added frankly, "It's of no use.All the people taking part in the surgery that day, doctors and nurses,
were dispatched aboard and given new identities.You can't find them."
Christina was staggered.
After a while, she suppressed the fear in her heart and stammered, "W- What are you trying to say?"
Lucy's smile broadened.
"Nothing.I just want to say that your twin sons are not dead."
Christina was thunderstruck and couldn't make a sound for a long time.
They looked at each other silently and then Lucy asked offhandedly, "Do you want to see them?"
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