Female Novel
Chapter 442
Late at night, in a noisy bar.
Patrick hardly came to the bar for entertainment after he got married. It was a rare day to go out for a
drink with Charles. He came as promised but in a daze.
Chandler arrived first and asked about Peter. "Is there still no news from your brother?"
Thinking of this, Charles immediately gave a distressed expression and shook his head. "No."
"Long before the new year, Peter said he was going on a business trip and would be back on January
1st, but then he called my mother that he couldn't make it to the new year party. Mom scolded him at
that time. He once told me helplessly that he needed to help a friend urgently. I asked him who he was,
but he didn't say..."
Patrick sat down and heard Charles complaining.
The bartender came up to ask him what he needed with a careful smile. Patrick ordered a red wine and
drank it absent-mindedly.
Charles continued, "After that, we didn't call him again. The manager received two messages from him
a week later. One said that he had something else to do and would be back after two months. Another
said that he transferred the operating rights of a branch to a new shareholder."
At this moment, Patrick asked, "Is the company where Christina works now?"
Peter was the most hardworking and motivated of the four sons of the Shepherd family. He liked tonovelbin
invest in new companies and owned a lot of shares.
Chandler felt weird. "Peter is missing not too long and then he transferred the operation rights. Is it
related to that person?"
Crystal also worked in that company, so Chandler paid more attention to her.
Charles sullenly picked up the glass on the table, took a sip of wine, and then scolded, "Damn. He
never shows his fucking true face. I can't find out anything."
"The manager said that the man had only been to the company once with documents that Peter had
signed and stamped. After that, he had never come again. We couldn't find him even if we had to ask
him for something. Last time, it was me who signed the contract of IP&G."
Chandler frowned. "Is there no surveillance camera?"
"The company was reorganizing and all the electricity were cut off back then. The workers were still
repairing." Charles was frustrated.
Recently, his mother was no longer in such a hurry to force him to go on a blind date. Instead, she
forced him to find Peter quickly. Charles felt a heavy load.
According to the current information, only the new shareholder could know the news about Peter.
"That manager is also a fool. Last time he didn't leave the originals of files that Peter signed
personally."
Charles couldn't help but scold, "How dare he tell me that he is Italian? That idiot can't even
understand his Italian name. He just said that he looked not that like Italian but like a mixed-race with
beautiful features. He is tall and thin with blue eyes..."
Blue eyes.
Hearing this, Patrick was originally in a daze but he subconsciously thought of another man.
"Do you think of someone?"
"My brother mentioned a person who was his friend, so we both likely know him."
Charles was anxious. After all, Peter had been out of contact for almost half a month with his cell
phone completely unavailable. The employees who went together with him had already returned to
work.
Although Peter had always been a workaholic, and it had happened before that he delayed his return
for even half a month because of his business trip, it was really strange this time.
The whole Shepherd family was anxious, afraid that something would happen to him.
"I'll send someone to look for Peter too."
Patrick always had a good relationship with the Shepherd family. "His last stop was Italy, but he bought
a plane ticket and returned home that day. I think he should be in the country."
"Well, I don't know what he wants to do." Charles scratched his head in annoyance.
"Once he gets busy, it's possible for him to go into seclusion. I still remember that when I was in high
school, my mother suddenly called me home and said that Peter might have died. How sad we were at
that time. In the end, that bastard crawled out of the basement unhurriedly. He had been doing some
bullshit research in the basement for almost one month without going out."
Chandler knew the story and patted Charles on the shoulder with a chuckle. "You don't have to worry
too much. We could find him soon."
Charles thought for a moment and felt relieved. "Maybe he will appear next week." Anyway, the
members of his family had always been unreliable.
"Patrick, what are you thinking?"
Charles had been upset recently because of Peter, but now he found that Patrick seemed to be more
preoccupied than him.
Patrick was looking at a crystal wine glass in his hand. His long, fair fingers matched with the dark red
wine inside. His eyes fell on the slightly swaying liquid in the glass, but his mind drifted far away.
"Christina said that the coin spoke." He spoke suddenly in a deep voice.
Chandler was surprised. "Can a coin talk?"
Charles wanted to argue it immediately, but he thought for a while, "Christina told me before that she
had an Ancient Coin, but she doesn't know where it came from. She kept holding it... I threw it into your
lotus pond."
Then he muttered, "Is she possessed?"
Chandler believed in science. "What did the doctor say?"
"Hallucination."
Chandler felt that this was more reasonable. "Excessive mental stress does lead to hallucinations."
"Do you think she's under too much pressure?"
Patrick asked. He did not believe that Christina would be stressed out. It was just incredible that she
said the coin could speak so that he preferred the explanation of auditory hallucination.
Charles immediately said, "She told me that she often had nightmares in her childhood. She always felt
someone talking by her bed in the middle of the night."
As he thought, he spoke. "She's quite lucky to have grown into the personality she has now, as the
average person might be a bit gloomy. She's not Donald's real daughter. No matter how hard he tries,
he won't treat her like his own daughter. Christina's biological mother is mysterious. She grew in a quite
complicated environment. Maybe the depression has accumulated since childhood."
Patrick stared at Charles gradually in thought.
It sounded that Christina was more willing to share her past with Charles.
Charles was too dull to feel Patrick's conflicted emotions at all. He sighed, "I think Christina has
something on her mind. She is independent and she won't beg for help. She is more guarded against
others than we are. Perhaps she didn't tell us the truth for not trusting us."
He was more excited as he spoke. "After giving birth, she was depressed and almost broke down.
Thanks to Crystal and Derek, otherwise, I have no idea what will happen..."
Chandler was speechless. Charles didn't have to bring them up.