Chapter 593


    Patrick strode into the room. His expression was as cold as ice and he lifted Derek who was weak and


    haggard,


    Derek did not open his eyes and breathed weakly. He didn’t look well and his face was pale and sick.


    He had fallen ill a few times before when it was a full moon, and now the situation was the same. Derek


    was now covered in bruises and scars. The room was also smashed into a mess.


    “Raphael!” Patrick shouted the name almost angrily.


    It was a strange name.


    If Patrick hadn’t seen the familiar face in front of him, he would have punched Derek mercilessly. The


    look in his eyes was filled with violence. He gritted his teeth and shouted again, “Raphael!”


    Patrick tightened his grip on Derek’s shirt cor. He was furious and threw Derek back heavily on the


    bed again.


    “Raphael, you’re using Derek’s body. I’ve already found out your dirty tricky.”


    Patrick was furious. His cold and deep voice sounded in the closed room. Charles and Larry, who were


    standing outside the door, could tell how angry he was.


    Shocked by every word Patrick had said just now, the people outside the door looked at each other


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    dully, unable to keep their thoughts up with Patrick.


    Derek was gasping for air. He had endured the full moonst night and was now in great pain. Before


    he recovered, Patrick hade over to him.


    Patrick was also merciless to him, “Why have you been following Christina? What’s your rtionship


    with her?” He grabbed amp from the bedside cab and raised it, intending to throw it at Derek.


    Derek reacted very quickly. Although he was extremely weak and did not open his eyes, it seemed that


    he could still see Patrick’s move. He turned sideways and just avoided the crystalmp.


    Larry was shocked to see this. He quickly stuffed the baby who was in his arms to one of his


    subordinates behind him and rushed in. He wanted to protect Derek, but he didn’t expect that Derek


    said something: “You haven’t found out what my rtionship with her is yet?”


    Derek suddenly spoke out. His voice was hoarse and low, but there was a hint of banter in it, “Christina


    and I are very close.”


    He slowly opened his eyes, which were still blue and beautiful, but they were not as clear and clean as


    Derek’s


    eyes. The look in this pair of eyes was more contemptuous, more provocative, and very sharp.


    Patrick glowered at him with a cold expression,


    Larry’s mind was in a mess. He stammered, “Derek?” But clearly, even Derek’s uncle Larry knew it


    clearly in his mind that this man was not Derek.


    He was not the same person.


    How could this be?


    Just like Patrick back then, he didn’t believe it when he had just known such a strange possibility from


    his men.


    Butter, the people he sent to Italy for investigation gained more information, especially the rumors


    and legends about the inds from which the Ancient Coin had been dug out and about leaders of


    those inds. Patrick doubted this information for a long time and had to believe them in the end.


    In fact, Patrick had limited information at the moment. After all, the inds were isted from the


    outside world. Raphael was a name he learned from Mary and he knew that Raphael had a very close


    rtionship with the Strozzi family.


    Patrick had a vague guess in his heart because something strange had happened to Christina before


    and Mary suddenly came back. He had to pay attention to these things.


    Charles handed the child in his hand to the bodyguard behind him. He walked into the room vigntly


    and looked carefully at the man sittingzily by the bed. “Are you, are you not Derek?”


    He was still the same person, but the teasing and arrogant look in his eyes clearly showed that he was


    not Derek.


    Patrick’s subordinates surrounded Derek, and now Larry would probably not stand on his side. But


    there was no panic in the look in his eyes and in his expression. Raphael was calm and seemed to


    have everything under his control.


    “… Christina has been taken away.”


    He told them half-jokingly in Derek’s yful voice, “I’m afraid she’s in danger now, hahaha…”


    Patrick narrowed his eyes and was about to speak when urgent footsteps came from behind. Everyone


    bconsciously looked out of the door. Soon, a bodyguard strode to his side and reported to him in a low


    voice, “The news from Hopkins family said that Junior Mrs. Hopkins has been missing.”


    His voice was not loud, but it was loud enough for everyone in the enclosed room to hear it clearly.


    Patrick’s expression changed. ‘Christina has been missing.’ The look in his eyes froze for a moment,


    and it seemed that the situation was out of his expectation.


    At first, he thought that as long as he controlled Raphael, he could solve all the problems.


    Charles was anxious and he grabbed the tie of the bodyguard who came to report, “Make it clear. How


    could


    Christina, such a living person, disappear? Did she run out and forget to bring her cell phone with her


    again?”


    *… At first, we didn’t care about it. At noon, Nanny Faang in the Eastern Garden said that she had


    prepared lunch for Junior Mrs. Hopkins, but she lost contact with her. It was dyed until 3 p.m. when


    the butler felt worried and asked someone to check the records of entry and exit. All the courtyards in


    Hopkins family were searched, but we couldn’t find her.”


    The voice of the bodyguard of the Hopkins family grew lower and lower. He was afraid of being med.


    “Is it you who did it?” Charles immediately targeted Larry and said angrily, “Did you y this trick


    again!”


    Larry felt wronged and said, “Don’t talk nonsense. What do I need her to do? That girl is so fierce. If I


    spend one more day with her, my life will reduce for a few years.”


    “If it weren’t you, who else would be so bored?” Charles decided that it was Larry and his subordinates


    who did this because they had abducted the twins, and Charles had caught them with the victims.


    Charles and Larry began to quarrel with each other.


    Patrick noticed a smile on Rafael’s lips who was sitting on the bed. Patrick clenched his fists and


    shouted expressionlessly, “All of you, shut up!”


    Only then did Charles and Larry stop quarreling. They looked at Patrick who was clearly furious, and


    they did not dare to argue again.


    “Where is she?”


    Patrick’s voice was cold, and he still held the ck and shiny pistol of thetest style in his right hand.


    If Raphael said anything wrong, Patrick could not guarantee if he would be impulsive and shoot at


    Raphael.


    Raphael, who had been sitting leisurely on the bed, raised his eyebrows. Hisnguid demeanor faded a


    little and he stood up to look straight at Patrick.


    “… Strozzi Inds.” He said a ce name casually.


    Patrick’s face darkened when he heard it.


    “Meown” A cat with dark hair and nimble steps came over gracefully.


    Earl, the ck cat, squatted beside Raphael like a loyal guardian angel. It was squatting upright on his


    left.


    Patrick and Charles lowered their eyes and looked at the ck cat warily. It was not afraid of people at


    all. In fact, they had gotten in touch with the ck cat before. But at that time, they did not take a cat


    seriously.


    Later, Patrick found out that in the story of the Strozzi family, there was a ck cat named Earl. It had


    dark hair and golden eyes. It was very nimble and swift and even could understand humannguage.


    ording to the


    legend, this ck cat, Earl, was their leader’s pet.