Chapter 593
Patrick strode into the room. His expression was as cold as ice and he lifted Derek who was weak and haggard,
Derek did not open his eyes and breathed weakly. He didn’t look well and his face was pale and sick. He had fallen ill a few times before when it was a full moon, and now the situation was the same. Derek was now covered in bruises and scars. The room was also smashed into a mess.
“Raphael!” Patrick shouted the name almost angrily.
It was a strange name.
If Patrick hadn’t seen the familiar face in front of him, he would have punched Derek mercilessly. The look in his eyes was filled with violence. He gritted his teeth and shouted again, “Raphael!”
Patrick tightened his grip on Derek’s shirt collar. He was furious and threw Derek back heavily on the bed again.
“Raphael, you’re using Derek’s body. I’ve already found out your dirty tricky.”
Patrick was furious. His cold and deep voice sounded in the closed room. Charles and Larry, who were standing outside the door, could tell how angry he was.
Shocked by every word Patrick had said just now, the people outside the door looked at each other dully, unable to keep their thoughts up with Patrick.
Derek was gasping for air. He had endured the full moon last night and was now in great pain. Before he recovered, Patrick had come over to him.
Patrick was also merciless to him, “Why have you been following Christina? What’s your relationship with her?” He grabbed a lamp from the bedside cabinet and raised it, intending to throw it at Derek.
Derek reacted very quickly. Although he was extremely weak and did not open his eyes, it seemed that he could still see Patrick’s move. He turned sideways and just avoided the crystal lamp.
Larry was shocked to see this. He quickly stuffed the baby who was in his arms to one of his subordinates behind him and rushed in. He wanted to protect Derek, but he didn’t expect that Derek said something: “You haven’t found out what my relationship with her is yet?”
Derek suddenly spoke out. His voice was hoarse and low, but there was a hint of banter in it, “Christina and I are very close.”
He slowly opened his eyes, which were still blue and beautiful, but they were not as clear and clean as Derek’s
eyes. The look in this pair of eyes was more contemptuous, more provocative, and very sharp.
Patrick glowered at him with a cold expression,
Larry’s mind was in a mess. He stammered, “Derek?” But clearly, even Derek’s uncle Larry knew it clearly in his mind that this man was not Derek.
He was not the same person.
How could this be?
Just like Patrick back then, he didn’t believe it when he had just known such a strange possibility from his men.
But later, the people he sent to Italy for investigation gained more information, especially the rumors and legends about the islands from which the Ancient Coin had been dug out and about leaders of those islands. Patrick doubted this information for a long time and had to believe them in the end.
In fact, Patrick had limited information at the moment. After all, the islands were isolated from the outside world. Raphael was a name he learned from Mary and he knew that Raphael had a very close relationship with the Strozzi family.
Patrick had a vague guess in his heart because something strange had happened to Christina before and Mary suddenly came back. He had to pay attention to these things.
Charles handed the child in his hand to the bodyguard behind him. He walked into the room vigilantly and looked carefully at the man sitting lazily by the bed. “Are you, are you not Derek?”
He was still the same person, but the teasing and arrogant look in his eyes clearly showed that he was not Derek.
Patrick’s subordinates surrounded Derek, and now Larry would probably not stand on his side. But there was no panic in the look in his eyes and in his expression. Raphael was calm and seemed to have everything under his control.
“… Christina has been taken away.”
He told them half-jokingly in Derek’s playful voice, “I’m afraid she’s in danger now, hahaha…”
Patrick narrowed his eyes and was about to speak when urgent footsteps came from behind. Everyone
bconsciously looked out of the door. Soon, a bodyguard strode to his side and reported to him in a low voice, “The news from Hopkins family said that Junior Mrs. Hopkins has been missing.”
His voice was not loud, but it was loud enough for everyone in the enclosed room to hear it clearly.
Patrick’s expression changed. ‘Christina has been missing.’ The look in his eyes froze for a moment, and it seemed that the situation was out of his expectation.
At first, he thought that as long as he controlled Raphael, he could solve all the problems.
Charles was anxious and he grabbed the tie of the bodyguard who came to report, “Make it clear. How could
Christina, such a living person, disappear? Did she run out and forget to bring her cell phone with her again?”
*… At first, we didn’t care about it. At noon, Nanny Faang in the Eastern Garden said that she had prepared lunch for Junior Mrs. Hopkins, but she lost contact with her. It was delayed until 3 p.m. when the butler felt worried and asked someone to check the records of entry and exit. All the courtyards in Hopkins family were searched, but we couldn’t find her.”
The voice of the bodyguard of the Hopkins family grew lower and lower. He was afraid of being blamed.
“Is it you who did it?” Charles immediately targeted Larry and said angrily, “Did you play this trick again!”
Larry felt wronged and said, “Don’t talk nonsense. What do I need her to do? That girl is so fierce. If I spend one more day with her, my life will reduce for a few years.”
“If it weren’t you, who else would be so bored?” Charles decided that it was Larry and his subordinates who did this because they had abducted the twins, and Charles had caught them with the victims.
Charles and Larry began to quarrel with each other.
Patrick noticed a smile on Rafael’s lips who was sitting on the bed. Patrick clenched his fists and shouted expressionlessly, “All of you, shut up!”
Only then did Charles and Larry stop quarreling. They looked at Patrick who was clearly furious, and they did not dare to argue again.
“Where is she?”
Patrick’s voice was cold, and he still held the black and shiny pistol of the latest style in his right hand. If Raphael said anything wrong, Patrick could not guarantee if he would become impulsive and shoot at Raphael.
Raphael, who had been sitting leisurely on the bed, raised his eyebrows. His languid demeanor faded a little and he stood up to look straight at Patrick.
“… Strozzi Islands.” He said a place name casually.
Patrick’s face darkened when he heard it.
“Meown” A cat with dark hair and nimble steps came over gracefully.
Earl, the black cat, squatted beside Raphael like a loyal guardian angel. It was squatting upright on his left.
Patrick and Charles lowered their eyes and looked at the black cat warily. It was not afraid of people at all. In fact, they had gotten in touch with the black cat before. But at that time, they did not take a cat seriously.
Later, Patrick found out that in the story of the Strozzi family, there was a black cat named Earl. It had dark hair and golden eyes. It was very nimble and swift and even could understand human language. According to the
legend, this black cat, Earl, was their leader’s pet.
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