Sam was curious about what kind of creature she really was, being able to fall asleep so easily.
The last woman he had encountered who piqued his interest was Cheyenne.
He couldn’t treat her like an ordinary woman.
Pearl and she were completely different but strangely similar species.
The girl was already fast asleep, unaware of what she was dreaming about, with a constant smile on her lips.
Her porcelain-white face radiated a faint baby pink in the sunlight, rare tranquility in Pearl’s demeanor.
“Indeed, you’re more adorable when you’re asleep.”
Sam whispered softly.
Thinking about Pearl when she was awake, there was only one word – annoying!
He prepared to turn around and leave the ward when Pearl’s phone on the bedside table rang.
Afraid that the noise would wake her up again, Sam quickly picked up the phone and turned the volume down to the minimum.
Carefully, he glanced back and found that Pearl hadn’t woken up. He finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Returning his gaze to the phone, he saw a missed call from “Ruth”.
He thought for a moment and deleted the call log.
Just as he was about to put down the phone, another message came through.
[Miss Pearl, I beg you… can you lend me $260, 000 based on our past relationship?]
It was actually a text asking for money.
Sam hated people who borrowed money under the guise of friendship.
If he remembered correctly, this woman named “Ruth” was quite cunning. She even tried to flatter him last time.
With Miss Pearl’s sentimental nature, she might actually lend this money.
$260, 000 was nothing. What he feared was that the other party would become insatiable. Once they indulged in this once, there would be a next time!
Without thinking, Sam deleted this text message as well.
He was helping Miss Pearl cut ties with this deceitful “friend”.
Finally, he set his phone to silent mode and left the ward.
Pearl had been in the hospital for quite some time and her phone hadn’t been charged. It soon automatically shut down.
So, whether it was Ruth’s call or text, she didn’t see any of them.
At the same time, Ruth anxiously held her phone, waiting for Pearl’s response.
Her gaze almost pierced through the screen as she anxiously muttered to herself:
“Answer the phone quickly! What are you doing? Why aren’t you picking up my call?”
Just two minutes later, when she called again, Pearl’s phone was already turned off…
Could it be that she was angry because of what happened at the hospital and deliberately ignored her calls?
Ruth didn’t want to think like that, she wanted to believe that Pearl simply didn’t notice her phone. But reality forced her to consider that possibility.
Ten minutes had passed since Ibrahim came here to collect the debt. He stood with one foot on the cement platform, picking his nose with one hand.
His expression gradually became impatient.
“You’ve been on the phone for several minutes. How is it? Did you gather the money?”
“I…”
Ruth clenched her phone tightly and couldn’t answer. She hadn’t gathered a single penny!
If the clothing resale hadn’t been exposed, maybe she could have made tens of thousands of dollars with those clothes.
But now… everyone avoided her like the plague. Who would come forward to buy clothes, let alone lend her money?
Only Pearl.
She was her only lifeline.
Ruth trembled in fear, looking at Ibrahim with guilt as she whispered:
“I-I will gather the money soon. Please, Ibrahim… give me a little more time. I’ll be quick.”
“How much longer? Five minutes? Ten minutes? Or an hour?”
Ibrahim angrily reached out his hand and roughly grabbed her hair, pulling her towards him.
Ruth’s scalp tingled with pain as she screamed repeatedly.
“Ah ah ah… I-I don’t know, Ibrahim, please don’t… we will definitely repay the money, I’m not lying to you.”
“I won’t let you get away with it.”
To be honest, this woman looked pretty good, but Ibrahim had no interest in women. He scolded her and pushed her away.
His gaze shifted back to Ryan.
He wasn’t as easygoing when it came to the main culprit.
Approaching him, he gave Ryan two hard slaps across the face, causing him to spit out a tooth and blood filled his mouth.
“You brat, didn’t you say you were friends with the lady of the Gilliam family?”
“Why can’t you come up with $260, 000? Are you deliberately deceiving me?”
Ryan didn’t even dare to cry. He was afraid that if he angered Ibrahim further, it wouldn’t be as simple as losing a tooth.
He swallowed that tooth and blood in one gulp, explaining tearfully:
“It’s true, I didn’t lie to you!”
Ryan cowered like a dog in front of Ibrahim but showed his true colors in front of Ruth.
He blamed all his misfortunes on this sister who had no blood relation to him.
His tone was full of resentment.
“It was you who said that woman is the lady of the Gilliam family. She even gave you such an expensive dress. Aren’t you good friends?”
“Why can’t you borrow $260, 000? It’s nothing for her, right?”
“You useless waste… bitch… my dad shouldn’t have married your mom. You and your mother are both bitches!”
Ryan cursed angrily, even including Louisa who had always been obedient to him.
Ruth despised those two words – “bitch” – the most!
When she was young, no matter where she went, people pointed at her spine and called her a bitch’s daughter who would sleep with men when she grew up.
Since then, she had developed an intense aversion to those two words.
And towards her mother Louisa who worked in that profession, she looked down on her from the bottom of her heart, even hated her!
She hated Louisa for making her unable to hold her head high in front of peers.
She hated why Louisa couldn’t be like other mothers – born noble with a decent job.
She hated why Louisa gave birth to her!
After waiting so long for her mother to escape from that life;
She no longer had to be called “a bitch’s daughter” or “little bitch” behind her back.
And now, it was her own brother who poured salt on her wounds!
This melodramatic life was truly ironic.
Ruth decided not to care anymore. She faced Ibrahim with an indifferent attitude and said mercilessly:
“If Ryan owes gambling debts, go find him.”
“Whether you cut off his hand or kill him, I don’t care anymore!”
“I have no blood relation with him. That’s it. I’m… tired!”
Upon hearing this, everyone was stunned.
Ibrahim didn’t expect Ruth to just give up like this.
Legally speaking, she didn’t have to repay gambling debts for him.
But he worked in this gray area between law and hell. Did he need to talk about the law with her?