Female Novel
Chapter 753
Chapter 753
“You actually hid in Patrick’s suitcase to leave with him! Didn’t he throw you out when he found you?”
Christina was curious about Lucy’s past.
Lucy rolled her eyes at Christina. “You’ve never experienced wars so you don’t understand how hard
my life was. When I was 6, I was still as skinny as a malnourished monkey. My eyes looked terrifyingly
big on my pale, shriveled face. I was pulled out of the suitcase when Patrick was boarding. Do you
think I would give up? Of course not! I held his legs so tightly that he couldn’t even move!”
Christina wouldn’t understand how hard she had tried to survive in the chaos of wars when human lives
were even cheaper than dogs.
“I didn’t mean to offend you.”
Christina softened her voice as she noticed Lucy’s sudden anger.
“I’m curious just because Patrick doesn’t look like someone that would easily agree to take you with
him.”
Unlike Derek, Patrick seemed hard to handle.
The bus drove slowly along the way and stopped at the next stop, where some passengers got off and
some got on. Among them were some female students in uniforms.
Lucy looked at those young girls and then turned to Christina. Suddenly, some unpleasant memory
occurred to her.
She glared at Christina. “Yes, Patrick is a hard nut to crack. I paid unimaginably great effort to make
him accept
me.”
Christina was a little aggrieved at Lucy’s sudden hostility towards her. She really had no idea why Lucy
was angry
with her.
Lucy couldn’t vent her anger on Christina at her will, so she cursed with a snort. “What an unfair world!
Damn it.”
Since Lucy had always been an unruly, independent woman who was determined to take charge of her
own life, it was surprising to see her complaining about her destiny.
Christina was confused about her for a moment.
She wondered what made Lucy so emotional today.
Christina certainly wouldn’t know about Lucy’s efforts. Everything Lucy owned today was earned by
herself. Without family and friends, she had fought through all kinds of men to her position today. Gary
and Alan were more like her competitors than friends.
However, Lucy’s difficult life before wasn’t the reason why she was angry at Christina today. She was
actually upset about how unfair the world was.
While she was trying her best to prove herself useful so that Patrick wouldn’t drive her away, Patrick
was trying his best to win Christina’s heart, who was just a high school student at that time. Now that
Lucy thought about it, she found this whole thing unacceptable.
Impressed by the unyieldingness and determination of Lucy, a six-year-old girl, Senior Mr. Hopkins
agreed to adopt her. The Hopkins family could adopt a skinny girl who looked harmless.
However, Patrick didn’t completely agree with his grandfather on this matter. He already had a younger
sister, Brianna. There was no need to have another one.
Patrick, who was only 11 years old at that time, took Lucy to an old apartment in the old city of New
York.
He bought the whole row of apartments in that neighborhood with the money given by his grandfather
on every New Year’s Day and raised a lot of children there, an extremely amazing and surprising thingnovelbin
for an 11-year-old child to do.
Lucy met Gary, Alan, and the others there. They were all orphans and ex-convicts.
There was a time when Lucy naively thought of Patrick as a kind person.
She realized later that they were nothing but pets to Patrick. He was too rich, which enabled him to
raise them, a bunch of miserable children, with his pocket money as if they were his dogs.
Under Patrick’s rule, they had to prove themself useful to him if they wanted more food, money, and
better clothes.
Patrick offered them a chance to change their lives and he had never forbidden them from leaving
since there would always be more people who came here and worked for him willingly.
In order not to be chased away, Lucy struggled every day. Gary and the others weren’t kind people
when they were young, so she had to fight with them for her food. Their friendship only began after
they got to know each other well after a long time.
Lucy couldn’t tell how she felt about Patrick. When even her mother had given up on her, Patrick
passed by and saved her life in the chaos of the war. He looked like a mighty god at that time.
Gary and the others always laughed at her strange affection for Patrick like a clinging nestling.
Lucy couldn’t help that. When she met Patrick, who looked so powerful with all his bodyguards behind
him, in a war when human lives seemed to be worthless, she couldn’t help but look up at him as the
strongest man in the world.
Since she was a child, it had been her dream to prove herself useful to Patrick and become someone
as powerful as him.
In the years when she grew taller and stronger and became more skillful and powerful thanks to
thousands of times of training, she discovered something unusual about Patrick: He seem to be hostile
to women. She was told this hostility had something to do with Patrick’s mother. All the girls who were
older than 10 years old would be ignored by him.
Lucy thought she was the special one, the only girl whom Patrick treated differently. She was already
17 years old that year but Patrick still answered all her questions patiently, which made her surprised
with joy.
She was also the only woman among the elites selected by Patrick. Gary had reminded her to keep her
hair short.
She had recklessly confessed her feelings to Patrick once.
And she was refused by him without hesitation after a second of surprise.
Gary still laughed at her about this embarrassing incident.
Thinking of this, Lucy glared at Christina even more fiercely.
Christina was anxious, not knowing what she had done that could have provoked Lucy.
“Christina, you should be grateful that I’m tolerant. You would have been killed by me if I wasn’t.” Lucy
snorted.
Lucy couldn’t “love” Patrick. After all, she didn’t know what was love.
Patrick saved her when she was helpless and desperate. While she was grateful for that, she couldn’t
help but imagine that she was special to him. Disappointedly, this wasn’t the truth.
For Patrick, saving her was nothing but a little favor, which was not even worth remembering.
Lucy was calm when she realized this. Patrick had saved her from the desperate pit of wars and
brought her to this civilized world. He was the one who told her that she could depend on herself and
make a better life.
Patrick assigned her missions with rewards and occasionally, she could get more money than she
deserved when Patrick was in a good mood. Their deals were clear and efficient. Lucy was still grateful
to him. However, she was upset at Christina’s appearance.
She wasn’t jealous of her.
Lucy felt like a child who couldn’t afford a toy that she had been wanting for a long time. Just as she
was staring at the toy in the window, another child bought it and threw it away in the dustbin with
disdain.
Lucy wished she could beat Christina up if she had the chance!
“Lucy, can you stop looking at me this way? It’s scaring.” Christina felt a chill down her spine.
The bust arrived at the next stop. It was the high school Christina used to study in.
Lucy dragged Christina out of the bus.
“Do you know Patrick worked as a teaching assistant in your school?” Lucy asked fiercely.
Christina nodded after consideration. “Yes.” But she didn’t know him when she was still a student.
Lucy snorted. “You don’t know! You don’t know how many stupid things you’ve done!”
Christina felt so aggrieved. Those stupid things must have been done by Patrick!