Chapter 120 A Tough Nut
“You!” Hattie was so angry that her face turned pale, and as she was just about to continue saying she heard a cold cry, “That’s enough! Isn’t it humiliating enough? Why don’t you come over here?”
The person who spoke was none other than Levi’s father, Ralph.
Ralph’s face was cold and stern, and after finishing his words, his gaze fell on Ruby in an icy manner.
Ruby met his gaze without condescension for a few seconds before she shouted sweetly, “Dad.”
Ralph’s face sank and his heart was unhappy, but in the end, he didn’t say anything, he just gave an nod as a greeting.
Hattie looked at Ruby more and more unkindly.
The people who came today were not only the relatives of the Finn family, but also a lot of dignified people outside. Ruby had made Hattie lose face in front of everyone.Belongs © to NôvelDrama.Org.
Hattie turned around and left with Ralph. Ruby found a seat by herself and had just sat down when she heard a warm voice ring out overhead, “Hello, you are my sister-in-law?”
Ruby looked up and only saw standing in front of her, a young man in around twenty-three or twenty-four years old, wearing a custom-made handmade suit, looking gentle with a good temper and good character.
Ruby only glanced at him and withdrew her gaze, sitting down on the sofa straight away before replying, “If you are Levi’s brother, then I should be your sister-in-law.”
“Is my brother occupied by something?” Hugo looked at Ruby’s delicate features and a flash of amazement flashed under his eyes, but it was a flash that did not show any.
“He did have something very important to do and he couldn’t come.” Ruby replied, and did not say much about what exactly Levi was busy doing.
District 7 was not a simple place, even in H Country, it was a confidential department, and no one in the Finn family knew about Levi’s identity, so it was clear that he didn’t trust the people in the Finn family.
Ruby did not have a penchant for revealing other people’s privacy.
“It’s such a pity, I’ve always heard that my brother has outstanding abilities and has already made a business of his own at a young age. I thought that I would have the chance to meet him today.” Hugo looked like he was lost.
Ruby said nothing but smiled and just looked at the man in front of her.
Hugo was able to conceal it from others, but not from Ruby, and Ruby could see with one glance what Hugo had in mind.
How could an illegitimate son in exile suddenly be able to return to a powerful family and leap to become the heir of such a powerful family have no pride in his heart?
Hugo was well cultivated, and he talked in a gentle manner, so she thought Ralph attached great importance to this son, otherwise it would not be possible to spend effort to cultivate him.
Hugo was just trying to show off in front of Levi, his paralyzed big brother, so that he could stimulate and irritate Levi.
“Sister-in-law, can you give me a contact for my brother? I’ll give him a call later to bond.” Hugo’s face was full of sincerity.
Today Hugo was the main character, naturally, there were countless people paying attention to him. From the time he walked to Ruby, there had been people staring at the situation over here, at this time, seeing Hugo so politely asking Ruby for Levi’s contact information, many people secretly praised him, thinking that Hugo was a polite person.
Ruby blinked, her face full of innocence, ”You want Levi’s contact information? Didn’t you ask for it from your parents? Since they are not willing to give it to you, I guess they don’t want you to get in touch with Levi, I think it’s better to forget it.”
Hugo didn’t expect Ruby to speak like this, his face faintly stiffened for a moment, and quickly recovered, “Then I’ll go back and ask Dad for it.”
“Okay.” Ruby nodded right away nonchalantly.
Hugo couldn’t help but look at Ruby for a few more moments.
The woman in front of him was gorgeous and looked like a simple woman, yet she was able to deflate him at every turn, plus just now Ruby made Hattie feel humiliated in a few words, so he thought that this woman was not as simple as she looked on the surface and was probably a tough nut.
After saying a few polite words to Ruby, he took his leave.
Looking at his back, Ruby gave a cold hum and continued to nestle in the corner to kill time.
The banquet was tedious with quite a lot of processes, especially since it also involved the process of acknowledging ancestors, so it took quite a bit of time.
Ruby sat in the corner and kept yawning with lack of interest.
It had been after nine o’clock her phone suddenly rang. Ruby took out the phone and glanced at the incoming call, raising her eyebrows somewhat unexpectedly, it was actually a call from Jared.
She glanced over at the party that was still going on, took her phone out and answered the phone in the garden, “Something wrong?”
“Help!” Jared’s distraught voice came from inside the phone.
Ruby frowned, “What’s wrong?”
“Mr. Levi has had an accident, his injuries are very serious, can you come over to my clinic right now?” Jared spoke in a worried voice.
“Say it in detail.” Ruby heart stuttered.
Jared’s medical skills weren’t bad, even he was at his wits’ end, and with such an anxious look, it was clear that Levi was really seriously injured.
She lifted her feet as she spoke on the phone and headed out the door, not even wanting to bother with the party inside.
“Today Mr. Levi was out on a mission and for some reason was actually exposed and discovered by the other side and was shot twice. As you know, he has damaged pain nerves and can’t feel pain, at the beginning he didn’t even notice that he was shot, until the end of the mission, he lost too much blood, and he had gone into shock. The location of the bullet is still very dangerous, I simply didn’t dare to remove the bullet for him.” Jared told Ruby the situation roughly in one breath, and then asked anxiously, “Can you come over right now? About how long will it take?”
Ruby frowned and judged the distance from the Finn’s to the Jared’s Clinic, her face was a bit gloomy, “It will take forty minutes at the soonest, I’ll come over as soon as I can.”
With that, she hung up straight away and got into her car.
The car was like an arrow that left the string, and drove out from the Finn’s house fast, Ruby sped all the way, stepped on the accelerator to the bottom. And the journey that originally took an hour, she spent less than half an hour to drive through.
When the car stopped in front of the Jared’s Clinic, the wheels scraped against the ground, leaving a deep mark.
Ruby opened the car door and got out, Jared was already waiting at the door, and when he saw Ruby coming, he quickly greeted her, “Ruby.”
“How is he now?” Ruby asked with a sullen face.
“Still unconscious, his blood type is special, and I……,” said Jared with a face full of chagrin.
Ruby had already entered the clinic and seen Levi, who was lying on the hospital bed, pale and breathless.