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Chapter 471

The servants of the Eastern Garden of the Hopkins family had been happy and relaxed recently.

Patrick and Christina had made peace. Patrick became very easy-going and didn't punish the servants

who made mistakes. All servants felt lucky.

Today was Sunday, so Christina slept in. Wrapped in a silk quilt, she stretched and then patted the

handsome face next to her with the back of her hand.

She tilted her head and looked at him doubtfully. "You are not awake?"

Patrick had no habit of sleeping in unless he didn't want to get up.

Men were particularly easy to be aroused in the morning. Patrick was a normal man. He threw himself

at her and they started doing it.

After that, Christina pushed him away, tired, her face red. "Patrick, get rid of your bad habits..."

"I think that's a good habit." Lying on top of her, he said in a low voice tinged with desire.

He had gotten up before her every morning. Now after being intimate with her and holding her soft

body, Patrick felt that he had been too restrained before, and he should have done so long ago.

"From now on, this will be our routine every weekend." Patrick made a decision.

He was too overbearing, asking this decision without discussing it with her. Christina pinched him

angrily. Patrick didn't feel pain at all. He laughed and said, "We have a whole day. We can do it again

after breakfast..."

"I am not doing it! You're so heavy..." Christina blushed.

There was little time for them to be intimate with each other because Patrick had always been busy, but

he was willing to change now, to find some time to be with her. Christina was very happy and moved.

Patrick was going abroad for a few days. Christina packed up his things while telling him which two ties

were bought by her. Then she walked forward, stood on tiptoe, and straightened up his collar.

Patrick suddenly felt that he had a good wife and smiled.

He wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her on the lips for five minutes in front of Nanny

Faang, the driver, and his entourage behind them.

"Wait for me at home." Patrick reminded her as he had done every time he would be on a business trip.

Christina blushed and didn't give him a clear answer.

Recently, her life had been full of joy and harmony. Even Lucy had sent her a message saying that she

had found nothing unusual after looking through the documents about Brianna that the orphanage had

been keeping.

"You can start with the people around Brianna. The maids in the Hopkins family who have been taking

care of her all these years might know her best." Lucy gave her some advice.

"I've sent someone over, but I haven't heard anything yet." Christina had sent Nancy over. So far, she

hadn't found anything.

No news was good news.

She didn't want the Hopkins family to be thrown into chaos. If nothing was wrong with Brianna, she

would be happy.

"I thought you have lost your mind on your husband." Lucy teased.

Lucy was surprised that Christina was not so stupid as she had thought and that she had even secretly

sent her confidants over to investigate from the people around Brianna, but there was one thing that

Lucy agreed with Patrick and Charles.

"I don't think Brianna is deliberately hurting you. She doesn't seem to be pretending."

Lucy had seen a lot of people and was good at reading people now. Brianna was just a weak girl who

had been spoiled and overprotected. She was simple and introverted.

"I hope so." This was Christina's last message.

She was now the chairman of the charity organization. She had a document, which was the plan for

funding orphanages all over the country.

The one where Brianna had stayed when she was a child was on the list. There was a note, saying that

there had been a big fire, which had broken out late at night and killed many employees.

A lot of files had been burned.

Later, the orphanage had been rebuilt with donations from all walks of life. The orphans got to live in

new houses. Because of the fire, it had received much attention from society, and many people had

come to this orphanage to adopt orphans.

"No one investigated the cause of the fire."

The fire had happened years ago. At that time, people had feared being blamed for being negligent.

They had shirked their responsibilities and hadn't looked into the cause carefully, but just said it was an

accident.

For some reason, Christina felt scared when she was looking at the old photos, whose color had faded,

of the abandoned orphanage after the fire.

The fire had taken more than a dozen lives, but no one was sure if it was really an accident.

If someone had done it on purpose, it would be horrifying.

Christina closed the document and went to read other projects. A pile of documents was waiting for her,

the nominal chairman, to sign.

The days passed peacefully with gentle breezes and sunny weather. Everything seemed peaceful.

The next morning, Nanny Faang received an express mail from the guard of the Hopkins family. It was

sent to Christina.

Looking at the flashy commercial on the box that said someone could have a prize draw for free and a

free gift, Nanny Faang frowned and weighed the small cardboard box. It was not heavy. The things

inside were shaking around. She didn't know what it was.

Nancy came to the Eastern Garden to chat with her old friends before work. When she saw Nanny

Faang frowning, she immediately came over curiously.

She was younger than Nanny Faang, so she had heard about this prize draw. She exclaimed, "Mrs.

Hopkins is so lucky. She won the prize for this event! I have taken part in this with Marian for more than

half a month and thought it was tricking people. But it turns out I was wrong. The parcel is the proof!"

"Stop yelling and mind your manners!" Nanny looked serious and patted Nanny on the head.

"I don't know if this is a prank or not. Mrs. Hopkins has been living here for so long, but I rarely saw her

buy anything online. This is just a lucky draw prize. I thought only you will be interested in this since

you have little work to do."

Dejected, Nancy retorted in a low voice, "Mrs. Hopkins has much less to do than us."

Christina didn't have to take care of her parents-in-law or take care of her son. Patrick often went on

business trips.

Nanny Faang glared at her. "You forgot all the rules I taught you before!"

Nancy shut up and lowered her head.

She had been with Christina a lot and became more of a free spirit.

"Why did you suddenly apply for a transfer?" Nanny looked strict but was actually kind to them. Nancy

came from a poor family and dropped out of high school to work. She had signed a long-term contractnovelbin

with the Hopkins family and been trained by Nanny Faang. They were somewhat close. "You like

working in the Eastern Garden very much. What's going on?"

Nancy was flustered and lowered her head even lower.

Seeing that she was unwilling to say anything, Nanny Faang thought she wanted to work for Brianna to

get close to her crush, so she didn't ask any more questions.

"Take this to Mrs. Hopkins, asking her if she had bought this. If not, throw it away. Be careful when you

or she opens this. If anything happens, ring the bell immediately..."

Nanny Faang gave the express to Nancy and went to do other things.

Nancy happily went upstairs to the master bedroom and knocked on the door with the express in her

arms. "Mrs. Hopkins, the product you bought online is here."

Christina was reading the charity projects with difficulty. When she heard it, she looked up and replied,

"I didn't buy anything online..."

"So this is really a prank?" Nancy was surprised.

On second thought, she realized that it was unlikely that Christina would shop online. After all, the

Hopkins family was not short of anything.

Nancy walked out. When she was going to throw it away as Nanny Faang had said, she thought it was

such a waste. She looked around and took a pair of scissors to open the box. She just wanted to see

what it was.

Two minutes later, Nancy rushed over with a complicated expression, and the door of the master

bedroom was knocked again.

"Mrs. Hopkins, Mrs. Hopkins!"

Christina couldn't stand the yelling. She put down her pen and asked angrily, "Is there a bomb in that

box?"

"No..."

Nancy handed the box to her, and there were 18 pregnancy test sticks.

"Mrs. Hopkins, are you, are you pregnant again?"

Nancy looked unusually serious and a little panicked. "We have to tell Senior Mr. Hopkins, Mr. Hopkins,

and Nanny. I'll tell the chef about..."

Christina picked up a pregnancy test stick calmly and looked at it. Then she said, "Crystal had a lucky

draw last time, and this is the free gift."

Nancy was very anxious. "Mrs. Hopkins, tell me. What should we do? Should we get a doctor here to

check you..."

Nancy looked like she was crying. "You have to be nervous if I am pregnant again?" Christina asked.

Nancy nodded heavily. "Yes."

"I'm not pregnant."

Christina said flatly.

Nancy was shocked. Seeing her expression, Christina teased, "My friend asked me to buy them. Don't

tell others. Otherwise, your year-end bonus will be gone!"

Nancy was loyal, so she wouldn't tell others. There was a slightly resentful look in her eyes. She

muttered to herself that all capitalists used the same method to scare their employees.

Nancy had been working for Christina for two years. In fact, she was not afraid of Christina. "Mrs.

Hopkins, you and Mr. Hopkins have done it frequently. Aren't you going to have a test?"

Nancy was bold enough to give Christina a meaningful look when she closed the door.

Christina took a pregnancy test stick, raised her eyebrows, and thought Nancy had a good point. They

had been doing it frequently without condoms. The probability was really high.

She rushed into the bathroom, read the instructions behind the pregnancy test stick, and followed the

steps.

The only thing she was thinking was that if she was pregnant this time, she wouldn't let Grandpa take

the baby away again and that Patrick might be scared out of her wit's and fly back immediately.

Thinking about it, she got expectant and looked at the stick attentively.

She was disappointed.

"Why?" Christina's good mood was ruined.

If she weren't expectant of it, she would not be disappointed. She shouldn't have taken a pregnancy

test.

After lunch, Christina called Crystal. "The product has been mailed to me. They are pregnancy test

sticks."

Crystal had guessed that it was daily necessities, but they were of a decent brand and mailed for free.

Everyone liked free stuff.

"Why do you sound... You have a cold?" Crystal asked carefully.

Christina glared at the pregnancy test sticks in the box. "I don't think there is something wrong with my

health. Maybe we should do it more often!" Her tone was firm as if she was onto something.

Crystal ignored her weird tone. It was at the weekend. She decided to drive to the Hopkins family's to

hang out with Christina and took this cheap express with her.

"Didn't Nanny Faang and the others find it strange that you have bought these things online?" Crystal

soon arrived. She was quite familiar with the Eastern Garden. As she spoke, she opened the box and

looked at the sticks which she had gotten for free.

"The list says there are 18 pregnancy test sticks. Why are there only 10?"

Christina said calmly, "I used them."

Crystal turned around and looked at her with a strange expression. "You, you're pregnant again?"

"No." Christina gritted her teeth.

She just didn't give up. She and Patrick had been doing it a lot without contraceptives. Why wasn't she

pregnant? It was unreasonable.

She used eight of them to make sure she was not pregnant.

She patted Crystal on the shoulder and said calmly, "Cheap products are always of low quality. They

must have expired."

"Really?" Crystal looked at the date of manufacture. "This is a regular manufacturer. It was produced

last month."

Christian refused to believe this. "Why don't you use one? The plastic feels bad, so they must be of low

quality."

Crystal took a stick and was pushed into the bathroom to take a test.

Five minutes later, Crystal came out, dumbfounded. "Well, you are right about the quality..."

Christina took a closer look and was surprised. "It is positive."

The two lines were so obvious!

"Crystal, you're pregnant." Christina calmed down.

Crystal didn't believe it. "But we've been taking precautions..."

Hearing this, Christina was even angrier. It was so unfair!

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