At ten o'clock in the evening, Christina received a call from a strange number.
Usually, she refused to answer these strange numbers that seemed to be from the salesmen. But recently, she was thinking about hiring Lucy to work for her and she was expected from Lucy's call, so as soon as her phone rang, she answered it immediately.
"Lucy, come and meet now!" She said angrily.
However, there was a few seconds of silence on the other end of the phone before someone said in a low voice, "It's me, Crystal."
Hearing that, Christina froze for a moment. And then she raised her voice and asked anxiously, "Crystal, where the hell are you? Do you know we're worried about you? We heard you were in a private hospital in North of the City before, and then there was no news from you..."
On the other end of the phone, before she could finish her words, she said calmly, "Crystal, can you help me?"
Because her voice was too calm, Christina immediately shut up. She felt that something bad might happen when she heard the word "help."
"What's the matter? Just tell me..."
Holding the phone, she suddenly felt nervous.
Yet Crystal, who was on the other end of the phone, said calmly, "I just called Chandler and was hung up. I'll send some things to the Hopkins family. Please give them to him for me."
Christina was now a little confused. Why didn't she send them directly to the Stephenson family?
But she didn't ask.
"Okay." She instantly agreed.
Just as she was about to ask where Crystal was, Crystal took the lead in thanking her politely, "Thank you. I'll call you when I'm settled abroad. Goodbye."
When Christina was shocked, the phone was hung up.
Settled abroad?
What did that mean?
Was she planning to live abroad from now on?
And she still had a lot of things to ask Crystal, such as what was going on with the abortion. Crystal could not give up the child on her own initiative for she had been looking forward to the birth of the child.
Why was she planning to go abroad and settle down there for no reason?
After the call was hung up, Christina grew very uneasy, but she didn't know how to deal with it. After thinking about it, she decided to call Chandler first to inform him.
After all, she also knew that no matter what conflicts there were between them, as an outsider, she only wished them to get back together.
"Crystal just called me. She said she had something for you and would send it to the Hopkins family tomorrow." She told Chandler directly on the phone.
"Where is she now?" He was a little emotional when he received her call and asked hurriedly.
"I don't know."
"How could you not know?!" Clearly, he didn't buy her words.
Yet his words provoked her. She then immediately sneered. "Just now, Crystal said that she called you and was hung up by you. Since you don't care about her, then put away your "affectionate" look."
He then suddenly fell silent.
He now remembered that at dinner, there was indeed a call from a strange number, which was hung up by his mother.
"I know you might be very busy, but tomorrow, you'd better come and get the things personally that she sent you. Maybe, it's important."
Although she didn't like the way he and his family treated her friend, at the thought of Crystal's words she immediately realized that things were a little serious. It was better to remind him this time.
"What is it?"
"I don't know," She then replied.
Immediately, he looked up at Christina, his face even gloomier.
The long silence ensued. "Where is she now?" His voice was hoarse when he spoke.
Yet she said in a low voice, "I don't know."
"Where is Crystal now? Why did she suddenly divorce me? Why did she suddenly abort the child?"
When he heard this answer again, he couldn't control his emotions. He scratched the divorce agreement in his hand and shouted angrily.
"Trust me, I really don't know. I didn't ask her to divorce you." She then explained anxiously. Right now, she also felt aggrieved.
"Who else could it be except you?"
He directed the anger in his heart at this spoiled and willful Junior Mrs. Hopkins in front of him.
At this moment, as long as Crystal had done something, everyone would just blame Christina for instigating her. Christina admitted that she was willful, but she would not do anything to ruin her friend's marriage.
Just then, someone came over from the other end of the carved wooden corridor. Charles could feel the tension between her and Chandler at the pavilion from afar. He then deliberately coughed to ease the atmosphere.
When they heard the sound, they turned to look at the corridor and saw that Charles and Patrick.
Soon, Chandler's face was filled with ridicule, and she clearly knew that he was despising her because since Patrick was back, he would protect her no matter what happened.
"Believe it or not! The toxic in Crystal's tonic and the divorce are none of my business." Feeling wronged, she retorted stubbornly.
"Calm down, both of you." Charles quickened his pace while speaking, trying to prevent the situation from worsening.
"Christina will not slip toxic into Crystal's tonics."
And she roared angrily, "Of course not me, Brianna did it!"
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