As they were mounting the stairs up, Emily's heart began to beat faster as well.
When they went up to the third floor, they saw Selena standing at the landing with an anxious look. When she saw Simon holding Emily, she immediately went forward excitedly. "Sis, are you okay?"
Selena worriedly looked her up and down. When she was sure that Emily was fine, she breathed a sigh of relief.
Holding Emily's hand tightly, she cried and said sadly, "You're back! I am so worried about you. I regretted so much that I didn't stop you. Thank God you're all right. Otherwise, I would live with a pervasive sense of guilt for the rest of my life! Simon, you are awesome. I know that you can save my sister!"
Emily was moved when she heard the front part. But when she heard the flattery, her mouth twitched.
She looked up at the upstairs and asked with a frown, "It's so noisy. What's going on?"
Although there were still several steps left, the noise inside was loud enough to be heard through the door.
"You know, those people came again!" Selena slouched as she said angrily with red eyes, "Every bloody day! It's incessant. They don't give us a temporary respite. They even drove me out of the house because I was in the way!"
Hearing this, Emily hurriedly struggled, "Simon, put me down!"
Simon acted as if he didn't hear anything. He just frowned and continued to lifted her upstairs.
When they opened the door with the key, they found the room was crowded with middle-aged men and women. All of them stood akimbo and swore at the same time. Amid crowds, aunt and uncle sat still on the sofa with their heads lowered, saying nothing.
Aunt who was quick-tempered, stood up and said to the crowd, "We have no money. You can take away whatever you like in this house!"
"You wish! Look at what you get in your house, they are worth nothing!" One of them retorted bluntly. "We were tricked out of our life savings! We're all penniless now. We work tirelessly for a pittance. We trusted you, so we took out all the money! You promised us at that time that your friend was reliable and wrote a guarantee!"
"Your friend runs away, but you're still here! Even the police can't guarantee when we can get our money back. You're killing us! My life is ruined!"
All of a sudden, the crowd was in a tumult. At this time, a man came out of the crowd with a particularly fierce expression.
Emily soon recognized that the man was the one who waved his fist at the door last time. She learned from Selena that the injury on her uncle's forehead was also caused by the man. When they were arguing, he pushed uncle and uncle's head hit the sofa.
She tensed for fear that the man would beat her uncle.
The man went fiercely to the sofa, pointed at uncle, and said, "I have already told you that if I don't pay our money back, I will beat you up! Although you didn't mean to cheat us, we give you the money because of your guarantee. So just give money to us!"
When the sonorous and forceful words came out, the crowd went into a frenzy. They all glared at the couple with hatred.
"I'll give you the money."
A deep male voice rang out.
Simon said slowly, but it drowned the crowd out. His simple words were like a clap of thunder blown up from the ground, which was full of deterrent force. Everyone turned to look over.
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: Purchased A Mr. Right
Hate deception and Abby and Dylan take the cake ,ugh...
NO!!! Tina belongs with Wilson…. Let Dylan and Abby get together...
Wow, once again the villain messes up the true love, Abby needs to go back abroad. And Tina’s true identity as the daughter of Bill Ambrey needs to be exposed! Then the families can “convenience marry” !! Abby is a witch....
Too bad Wilson can’t figure out that his and Tina’s ex’s and his cousin Desmond are conniving creeps!...
Anthea is so stupid, lying and leaving the man who loves her more than life itself. 🤬...
She deserves to be unhappy, being with someone she doesn’t love because of resentment for the exact thing she is doing, hopefully she ends up with no one. Calvin is a wimp and doesn’t love her, just wants a wife to please his family....
So the same basic story as Simon and Addy but stupid Emily is going to marry him! What a hypocrite! Ugh...
Emily gets more stupid every chapter, when did she pickup Calvin as a fiancé!!?? This story line is awful….very sad to do to Simon what she “thought” he had done but didn’t. She is truly a dumb woman. Simon never loved or really even cared for Addy….what the hell is she doing with someone she doesn’t even know or like/love. Awful 😢...
Emily is a fool, don’t let go of the man who truly loves you. Let go of the past, of which he did nothing but help someone who saved his life, and be happy with him… he is your soulmate....
Nothing like cutting off your nose to spite your face Emily. Just stupid! Ugh 😩...