Back in school days, Russell was coming home, riding Jessica’s bicycle, and his stomach started stirring madly all of a sudden. He couldn’t ride the vehicle anymore, and he couldn’t tell Jessica his situation, either. It was too embarrassing for him, but Jessica saw that he was clutching his stomach, and said, “I heard that if you carry weights in your pockets, you would be able to bear it better.”Russell was in quite a desperate situation, so he had to try it out. After all, he was not even in a position to sit on the back of the bicycle. So he loaded his pockets with rocks picked up from the side of the street and then started walking home, with Jessica accompanying him and smiling when he wasn’t looking at her.Russell was able to bear it until his home was within 200 meters but no more. That was when he reached his limit and ran for it.Jessica never laughed so hard as she had that evening. Although she didn’t tell others about it, she still teased Russell for weeks, using the ph

In room number 64.A tall golden blonde was sitting on the patient’s bed, with bruising and swelling on her bandaged face. A corner of her mouth was red from blood drying up.This woman was Natasha.Her brown eyes burned with rage right now.“Your broken teeth can be fixed,” Aran, the doctor said, while scribbling something on his pad. “However, it will take at least a month for your jaw to feel normal again.”Natasha was glaring at him. “You…” she wanted to scream at him and tell him to leave, but she couldn’t even open her mouth easily now. Her jaw hurt very painfully. She couldn’t even utter a simple sentence. Moreover, her face was bandaged up to support her jaw, so she was not in a position to freely talk, either.“Oh, and one more thing,” Aran added. “Ms. Jessica has already paid your bill in advance.”“No!” Natasha howled, and the strain on her muscles made her greatly cringe in pain. Clutching the bedsheet, she silently suffered.“We set your dislocated jaw back in place, but

Regan was in the Creed Zone, busy overseeing the construction of the new headquarters of the Creed Tech company. It was being built with the ductile metals that could withstand earthquakes better. In appearance, this building was much grander than the current company building.This high-rise building also connected other tall buildings, dotting around the Creed Zone, with bridges built at different heights.For building these bridges as well as the buildings, Regan hired one of the three supreme families, the Arris family known for building structures using the ancient technology privy to their family.To build the bridges at the top of the buildings, they created a bird-bone-like material which was sturdy yet light.The construction work happened lightning fast during the day time and also night time with a different batch of workers, working on different things.Because of this the entire Creed Zone had become a place full of dirt. Sand, concrete, cement, chips, metal bits, wires, a

Gage secretly paid a chef and made him pack some of the dishes, and THEN he returned to Regan who was waiting to fill his belly.After sniffing the dishes like a hungry old hound, he looked at Gage, “You don’t want to eat?”“I already did, sir,” Gage said, remembering how he forced Irene to sit and eat with him even though she told him she should work as she was the receptionist. Still, he said he would pay for her, and so she hurriedly ate with him, or so he thought. What Gage didn’t know was that the staff members could freely eat once a day at the hotel.Without waiting, Regan tasted one dish after another, though he couldn’t eat more than a little bit of every dish because he was an old man with not so much digestive power anymore.“Kale pasta with lemony beans… Warm and delicious.” Regan began to talk out loud. “I once ate this type of dish when I went out to picnic in the past. And this baked sweet potato with cheese leaking out of them is quite flavorful. And the spiced caulifl

At the farmhouse.“I thought I could earn some money and help my parents build another floor in our house,” Irene was explaining to Jessica with a pitiful expression. “But now, I can’t work in that hotel anymore.”“Why don’t you give it a try?” Jessica grabbed her hand. “If it works out, you’re going to earn something, right?”“Something, yeah,” Irene smirked. “How would I know if they’re paying genuinely out of the profits? I’m sure they’ll make us sign new documents tomorrow morning, and if they pay me 100 dollars after I work for fifteen days, what will I do with that money? The suit I wear at the job cost 90 dollars for me, Jessica,” she angrily raised her voice. “And I need to work for fifteen days to get that money back? Are you kidding me? I’ll earn more if I babysit some kid in our neighborhood.”“Russell won’t pay that unreasonably,” Jessica tried to comfort her. “You are worrying too much. Read the contract tomorrow. If it states you can quit after fifteen days if you want,