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


    urred to her.


    She red at Christina. “Yes, Patrick is a hard nut to crack. I paid unimaginably great effort to make


    him ept


    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 herining 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 n were more like herpetitors 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 uneptable.


    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’tpletely 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 thing


    for an 11-year-old child to do.


    Lucy met Gary, n, 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 realizedter 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.


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    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 alwaysughed 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 be 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 stillughed at her about this embarrassing incident.


    Thinking of this, Lucy red 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 asionally, 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!