My Pretty Sweetheart novel Chapter 1409

I frowned and asked, "An orphanage?"

She nodded and replied, "Yes, the person Pedro had contacted previously told him that the child is from an orphanage. He intends to donate some money to them as a form of repayment. But it seems that this child you brought back is not from an orphanage, but rather, from a village. Mr. Lawson mentioned that you drove seven or eight hours to a village to bring her back. Who gave you the contacts?"

I frowned slightly and suddenly remembered when Hendrix got angry with me last night. He had probably talked to Pedro, so he knew that the child that Pedro got in touch with was from an orphanage. However, the child I brought back was obviously not from the orphanage. That was why he was angry because he knew I was lying to him!

My head started to throb as I thought of this. It was difficult for me to explain this to him. If he found out that I had contacted Sebastian behind his back, he would be even more furious with me.

"A friend of mine gave me the contact!" I answered. Fortunately, all her attention was on the document she was reading, so she did not ask further.

I didn't go back to the villa that night after quarreling with Hendrix, but that was not the main reason. Anne and Wendy were in the hospital, and Wendy had no family and friends. There was no reason for me to ask my mother to look after her, so I stayed in the hospital to look after her myself.

I slept in the hospital that night. The cold atmosphere in the hospital made me unable to sleep well. Therefore, I felt uncomfortable after spending a night there. Valerie and Pedro came early in the morning and brought me breakfast.

Wendy had gotten much better, and Anne had also recovered a little. After saying goodbye to Valerie, I headed straight to the place that I had agreed to meet with Bobbie.

It was a straw hut restaurant that was neither large nor high class. Bobbie had already arrived at the restaurant when I got there. He was sitting in a corner of the restaurant with his chubby body pressed against the straw table, which made him look shorter and fatter.

From a distance, he looked like Humpty Dumpty.

Upon seeing me, he raised his hand to greet me. Then, he called the waiter over and order several dishes. I sat across from him quietly, waiting for him to speak first.

He was not in a hurry to speak. He had been waiting for the dishes to be served and told me that we would talk after we were done eating. He had ordered more than a dozen dishes for the two of us. Seeing that I didn't take a bite, he didn't ask me any questions either. Maybe he had already gotten used to it. He ate extremely fast, it seemed like he didn't even have to chew at all.

After finishing all the food on the table, he wiped his greasy mouth and said, "Look through the contract first. Sign it if you don't have any problems!"

While speaking, he passed me a thick stack of documents that were densely packed with legal clauses. I couldn't help but frown upon seeing these. I didn't study law, so I couldn't understand much of the contract.

Fortunately, I could understand numbers. I frowned when I saw the string of zeros behind the figure and asked, "Why did you raise the price of the operation? It costs more than a million dollars."

He pursed his lips, picked out the food that was stuck between his teeth with a toothpick and said, "Miss Reid, I heard from Mr. Milton that you guys are pretty rich. Besides, this is a private operation. First of all, we need to pay for the operating room, doctors and the medical instruments. I believe that you are aware that these things are not cheap at all. Besides, I can't provide the service to you for free, right? In addition to that, I also have to compensate the child's parents. This is the price I gave you after a discount."

I couldn't help laughing. A matter of life or death was nothing more than a business transaction to him. I was in no hurry to sign it. Looking at him, I said, "Thinking about it, it's really not very expensive, but I have a request. After all, it is not a legal operation, so I would like to take a look at your operating room, doctors and equipment first. It's not that I'm trying to cause you any trouble. However, it is two human lives that we're talking about here, and one of them is my daughter. My purpose is to save my daughter, not to hurt her!"