The Reunion After Seven Years novel Chapter 24

Ken couldn't help but shiver at the thought of the face of the daughter from the Wen family. His father who was on the other end of the line, however, still wasn't done trying to persuade Ken.

"Stop it, Father. If you really think the Qin Group and the Wen Group should be connected by marriage, I wouldn't mind if you married someone else and gave me a stepmother. Mother isn't here anymore anyway."

Every time Ken was at a loss for words to refute his father, he would always resort to mentioning his deceased mother. He knew that even though her mother had been dead for many years, she was still his father's number one weakness.

As expected, his father hung up the phone at once.

With a satisfied smirk on his face, Ken sighed and walked out.

In the ward, Jay looked at his mother with a surprised look on his face as she was put on a drip.

"Mommy, how did you get rid of the fear of injection?"

He still could remember the day when his mom had a fever like it was just yesterday. He couldn't understand why she was in a coma, so he asked Baron for some help. However, when he arrived at the hospital, his mother still refused the injection.

"Because Mommy is as strong as Jay now."

Nicole chose not to answer his question directly. She glanced guiltily at Kerr only to find that he was looking at her with a serious look on his face.

When she felt quite sure that Kerr was not going to expose her, she was subconsciously relieved.

She couldn't believe that she was so used to observing Kerr's change of facial expressions. It was not a good habit, and not one she could to get used to.

Still sitting on the sofa, Kerr flipped through the files that had been brought over by Jared from the company. His lips curved into a slight smile when he heard something Nicole said.

Inside the ward, Nicole and Jay were happily chatting with each other. And as Kerr observed the two of them, he felt a sense of security that he had never felt before. For the first time, he saw, with his own eyes, the simple joys that ordinary people experienced.

Then, all of a sudden, the ringing of a phone cut off their conversation.

Nicole quickly glanced at the number on the screen before pressing the answer key and putting the phone to her ear.

"Hi, Auntie Sandra."

Nicole had only managed to say hi when she heard a worried voice on the other end of the line.

"Nicole, Bonnie still hasn't come back. Last night, you said that you were going to look for her. Have you found her yet?"

Back then, not long after the Ning family went down, Nicole received the offer from a university in Manhattan. However, since the Ning family had just gone bankrupt, Sandra Zhang and Bonnie Ning didn't have the means to live well.

It just so happened that before the tragedy happened to Ning family, her father transferred some part of their property to his name and wrote a will leaving all of his property to Nicole alone before committing suicide.

That enabled Nicole to leave that troublesome place while the Ning family was facing a lot of problems.

"I found Bonnie. Don't worry, Auntie. I'll look after her."

Nicole's mother passed away when she was just a child. Not long after that, her father decided to marry Sandra Zhang, and even though she was very much against it, she did not dare to go against her father's wishes.

Because while she was not completely okay with it, she wanted her father to live a happy life in the future. Despite spending all that time in the Ning family, she never became close to Sandra Zhang, but there was still a fundamental connection between them.

"I'm relieved to have you on my side. Bonnie is still young. I hope you would forgive her if she ever says something to upset you."

Even though the Ning family had fallen, Sandra Zhang heard that Nicole finished her studies abroad and had a bright future ahead of her. Therefore, she could be the solution to their problem.