True Love Waits novel Chapter 1346

The first and second prizes for the photo contest were one hundred thousand and fifty thousand respectively. Erica won both for her entries, so the money was immediately transferred to her bank account. The certificates were also sent to the ZL Group. Matthew received them, but he couldn't celebrate her victory with her.

It had been one month and ten days since Erica left. Chantel received a call from Gifford. Before she could get the chance to greet him, he immediately asked, "You were with Rika for two days before she went to Cass, right?"

"Yes. Why?" she answered. Her voice was a little shaky as if afraid of something.

"Did she tell you anything about her plans, like where she wanted to go?" he asked again.

She heaved a sigh of relief first before she answered calmly, "No, she didn't." It was true. She knew that Erica was going to run away from home, but the latter didn't tell her exactly where she was going.

"Really?" He sounded unconvinced. If only he wasn't busy today, he would go back home to ask Chantel in person.

"Yes, really."

There was a moment of silence from the other end of the line before he spoke again. "If she contacts you, let me know immediately."

"Okay." But Erica had not contacted her yet since she left.

Then Gifford hung up the phone.

Chantel was in a daze as she stared at her phone. All of a sudden, her heart felt empty. It was as if she lost something important.

Meanwhile, in the slum located in the opposite direction to Cass, a skinny woman in plain clothes carried a bowl of freshly-cooked noodles into a shabby small room. She then said to the other woman, "Erma, I bought eggs and tomatoes to make these noodles. Eat them while they are still hot."

Erma was currently six months pregnant, but her belly was so big that some people thought she was about to give birth.

She was Erica. When she came to this slum, she decided to change her name into Erma Huo so people wouldn't recognize her. Without minding the shabby surroundings, she took the bowl of noodles and wolfed them down.

The woman who made the noodles for her was Tessie. Looking at her dirty face with a smile, she asked, "Are you leaving tonight?"

Erica stopped eating and nodded. "Yes. And you will go with me," she answered.

Tessie was stunned. "But... Mr. Huo won't allow me to go anywhere." Deep in her heart, she was hoping that Matthew would allow her to go back to Y City after she had been behaving well.

"Don't worry about it. As long as you help me now, I will personally take you back to Y City someday. Matthew won't mind it."

As the saying went, "The most dangerous place is the safest place." No one would ever think, especially Matthew, that Erica would come to this barren place to ask for Tessie's help.

But actually, Erica couldn't stand this place anymore. She couldn't even buy some fresh vegetables here. If she continued to live a life like this, the babies in her belly would become malnourished. So before that happened, she had to leave as soon as possible.

"Are you really going to help me if Mr. Huo blames me?" Tessie asked carefully.

"Yes, I will." Since Erica had lived with Tessie for quite a while now, she had seen the changes in her. Perhaps she had learned her lessons, so she had changed for the better.

"Great! Thank you."

That midnight, the two of them sneaked out of the slum and headed south.

At the Li family's house in A Country, Chantel had already given birth to a bouncing baby boy.

But the baby was already one month old when Blair remembered to inform Gifford about it.

She immediately called him to share the good news. "Gifford, your wife has already given birth to an eight-kilogram baby boy. When are you coming back home?"

Perplexity was written all over Gifford's face when he heard Blair's words. He was in a daze. It took a long while before he finally came back to his senses. "Whose wife?" he asked.

"Your wife, of course! Didn't you know that Chantel was pregnant?" Blair sensed something odd. 'Did Chantel not tell Gifford that she was pregnant?' she wondered.