Chapter 2144

“Me?” Jim snickered and glanced at Christopher.

“I didn’t think you’d care about anyone else but Bonnie now.”
Then, he shifted into a more comfortable position, leaning against the bar table, and added,” When you
brought her up immediately after calling me, I thought you were here to speak on her behalf.”
“No, I’m not.

She doesn’t need to be friends with someone like me who hurt her in the past, much less… speak to you
on her behalf.” Christopher sported a self-deprecating smile, then
lifted his head to stare at Jim.

“Jim, I’m in the middle of something important now, and as soon as I’m finished, I might bring June with
me to someplace up north.
“Aunty Rosalyn had already given me the recipe to formulate the drugs for my illness, and I’ll be able to
produce my own medicine in the future.

I…”
He paused for a moment before continuing, “I want to bring June with me to someplace where nobody
knows us and start a new life there.” Jim’s entire body stiffened when he heard this.

He lifted his head to stare at Christopher in shock.

“But you’ve lived in Merchant City for the past twenty years… All your friends and family are here, so
you…” Christopher picked up his glass and drained its contents before finally replying, “It’s precisely
because I’ve been living here for more than twenty years that I want to leave.

I can’t let myself ,remain stagnant forever, so I want to go somewhere up north to a foreign city and start
our lives afresh.” He lowered his head to stare at his empty glass and sighed.



“I want June to experience the life she’s always wanted…” Jim sighed.

“Are you going to come back in the future?” “I don’t know.” Christopher let out a bitter chuckle.

“It’s still too early to plan this yet since I haven’t yet finished what I’m doing…” He lifted his head to meet
Jim’s gaze.

“Therefore, I hope you and Bonnie can help me look after June before I finish what I started. “The only
person I care about now is June, and if anything happens to her…I’ll never be able to devote my time
AYESJAsp energy to my research.” Jim furrowed his brows, picked up his wine glass, and gently clinked
it against Christopher’s.

Then, he smiled and downed the contents of his glass.

“Don’t worry; I watched June grow up before my own eyes, and if anything bad happens to her, I’d be
worried sick, too.” After getting Jim’s word, Christopher exhaled and lifted his head to stare earnestly at
Jim.” Actually, there’s another reason I returned to Banyan City.

I have something I wanted to talk to you about, apart from this…” He poured himself another glass of
wine.

“The baby that Bonnie aborted…wasn’t mine.” Jim furrowed his brows and shot Christopher a look of
disbelief.

“Not yours?” He recalled how confident Christopher had been that Bonnie was pregnant with his child
and how he even forced Jim to go with him to Joshua’s house to bring her home… “That’s right.”
Christopher sighed.

“Even though I was already sick at that time, I was still sane. “I hadn’t said that because I was in a
psychotic state, but because I didn’t want you and Bonnie to get back together again, so, out of my



selfish reasons, I told you that Bonnie was pregnant with my child… “That way, you would give up trying
to get back together with her because you thought she had moved on and was dating me.” Jim narrowed
his eyes upon hearing this.


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