Twins in Her Womb (Bianca and Luke Crawford novel) novel Chapter 1861

"Your half-brother?" Nina asked.

"Yeah." Luca did not know what to say, so she decided to use Amur as an excuse.

"To be honest, I envy you a lot. You and your brother are not related by blood but you’re so close. Even those who are related by blood may not have as deep a relationship as the two of you," Nina sighed.

Luca knew that she was lamenting about her relationship with Jean. Their relationship was worse than those who were unrelated.

"What did your brother do?" Luca asked. She had been busy with a lot of things in the last couple of weeks. Since Percy had sorted out most of Nina’s issues, Luca had not been checking in on her.

After her loud sigh, Luca remembered that Nina had problems with her relationship and family.

Especially with Jean.

"Jean? All he does is think of new ways to ask me for money." Nina sounded helpless as she said, "Since he couldn’t get the money from me, he’d go ask Percy for it. I told Percy to not give him a single cent, so he has no choice but to ask my mother now."

"Did he succeed?" Luca knew that Anna was still in the hospital.

"Yeah, he did. If he cries in front of her a few more times, my mother will probably be willing to give her life for him. The medical expenses I set aside were all taken out by my mother and given to him. Do you know what happened next? There’s no money in the account to be debited, so the hospital called me." Nina chuckled. There would never be a solution to the problems in her family unless Anna decided to be ruthless and ignored Jean.

"I assume that you’ve stopped depositing money into that account now, right?" Luca asked.

Nina put the cleaned bowls aside and started to tidy up the cutleries. "No, but I've gotten smarter. I don't deposit too much at a time, and I told the hospital that only I can touch the money in the account. That way, my mother will run out of money for him to squander."

"That’s smart," Luca said. There would be no good ending to Anna spoiling Jean like that.

Jean was a terrible man. He worked with Pierre to kidnap Nina and even went as far as to take the money meant to save Anna's life.

It was as if the two of them owed it to him...

"Things aren’t great, but they’re not terrible either. Jean will still find opportunities to bother me. Since Percy and I have gotten back together, he seems to think that Percy will also support him for the rest of his life. I’ve told Percy that no one is allowed to help. Since he can't get any money from Percy, he’s just causing trouble every day. It's so annoying." Nina washed the cutleries and put them aside.

"You have to be careful with him. He worked with Pierre to kidnap you before. He might do it again." Luca reminded her.

"I know. I don’t think that Pierre has the time to bother me, though. I heard that he’s busy dealing with the mess he created. From what Percy told me, the illegal things he did have caught the eye of relevant government bodies. He's being investigated. He's too busy to even take care of himself, so he probably won't have time to trouble me and deal with Jean." Nina said. Pierre had not been doing well. Otherwise, her life would not be so peaceful now.

"The Mallory family won't give up on Pierre. His problems will be solved sooner or later. You must protect yourself." Luca reminded her.

Although Abel agreed to hassle Pierre, he had yet to make a move. She could not figure him out.

"Don't worry, I’ll protect myself. I'm even thinking about learning some self-defense techniques," Nina said happily. She watched as Luca added salt to the soup while she counted the corresponding soup bowls and cleaned them.

"It may be a little late for you to learn them now. You should just listen to Mr. Mallory," Luca said cheekily. She was happy to see a confident and optimistic Nina.

Nevertheless, no one could gain self-defense skills overnight.

She used to learn fighting skills from Rain. Back then, she thought that she could train and protect herself so that Luke would not have to worry.