Reborn ghost seeing lady is pampered by her ex husband - Chapter 80

Chapter 80: Family and financial expectations.

Katherine rushed out after him. “Darling David, my little brother.” She touched the back of his hair and smiled fondly. “I just want you to know that I support you, I like this Phoebe already so go ahead and woo her.” She raised her clenched fists and bypassed him.

Her words shocked him into a frozen state because in the past life, Katherine had teamed up with his mother to make Phoebe’s life a living hell.

His plan was to protect Phoebe from Katherine no matter what she said or how she acted different suddenly. He looked at Katherine’s back and wondered how a lot of things were changing since his rebirth.

At the Laguna beach hotel, Phoebe who was nursing a headache from so much drinking was squinting as she read her messages. She had so many of them, over one hundred.

“One would think i am the CEO of a large important company with the way everyone is looking for me high and low.” she muttered.

Evelyn pushed a bowl of porridge which the hotel kitchen staff had prepared meticulously in front of Phoebe.

“Eat the porridge and forget about the reporters.”

“It’s not reporters that are giving me a hard time. It’s the bunch of fake relatives that are jumping around like monkeys on a playground and begging for me throw some fruit their way.”

“Huh!” Evelyn frowned.

Phoebe picked up the spoon of porridge with her right hand and blew on it while her left one played one of the audio messages she had received.

[Phoebe, it’s your aunt Agatha. It has been three years since we last saw each other. Wow, you must be a big girl by now. I heard that you are getting married to a Saxon and i am so excited for you. Aunt has a small favor to ask, just tiny. I live in an apartment in a building owned by the Saxons here in Salt city. Can you ask your boyfriend to waive my rent for five years, just five years. Things have been a little hard on lately. Aunt will be expecting good news.]

[Hey Phoebe, it’s Maybelle. I saw the news about the three most eligible men being friendly with you. Can you set me up with one of them? Whichever one you don’t want. You know everyone in the family says that we look alike so if they like you, they will surely like me. Sister, please, please, please…]

[Phoebe, B to the E. What’s up cuz, it’s me your favorite cousin Tony. Anyway, i got into an accident last month and sort of totaled my ride. Is there any way you can shoot a couple of thousands or millions my way. I will totally pay you back.]

[Niece, i heard that you are getting married to a billionaire. Uncle has some advice to give you. Call me as soon as you get my message.]

[You damn girl, call us as soon as you get this call. We are going to wait for you at your cafe. You better show up or i will remind you the hard way that i am your father.]

[Sister, i went shopping in Magic mall and bought you the latest Rhode bag. I am sorry that i missed your birthday this year, but this will make up for it. I am sending it through quick service.]

All the messages from her relatives were different but the message was similar, they wanted favors in one way or another. She had about thirty more like that including her grandparents from the Gabriel side who wanted her to ask David to give them a piece of land owned by the Saxons in Salt city.

The funny thing was that before rebirth, when she was married to David, she did all these things and more for them.

“Did your father just threaten you?” Evelyn asked.

Phoebe nodded. “I have many more messages from him in which he is threatening me with physical harm if i don’t show up immediately. In one he actually tells me that i should prepare myself to meet Ruth and apologize on my knees.”

Evelyn raised her hands in a surrender gesture.

“I am so done defending your parents Phoebe what is wrong with them? Did Ruth feed them some kind of magic beans? Are they under her spell? How can they ask you to apologize instead of talking about how worried sick they are because you are missing? They have lost it.”

Phoebe scoffed. “Did you hear anyone asking me how i am or worrying because i was arrested?”

Evelyn shook her head. Now that she thought about it, none of the messages played for her by Phoebe relayed such worry or concern. All of them were full of people asking for this or that. Was this a side effect of poverty or was it something humans did?

Or was it Phoebe’s family specifically that was this way? The more she questioned this, the more she remembered some things from their days in school.

Phoebe was a scholarship student that was required to maintain excellent grades to stay in school. If she had so many relatives, why didn’t they contribute money for tuition?

For as long as she had known her, Phoebe always maintained a part time job. She worked in supermarkets, restaurants or arcades to earn upkeep, buy herself clothes when they were at university and even buy textbooks. Why was it that not one of these relatives helped?

Thinking about Phoebe’s financial situation reminded Evelyn of an incident from the previous year. Phoebe was working as a boat tour guide along Sunny River when she fell in by accident. She was rescued in time but ended up hospitalized due to pneumonia and she fell into a short coma that last two days.

When she woke up and the hospital released her, she abandoned everything and run away without contacting anyone.

Evelyn only reconnected with her after they bumped into each other in a casino in Magic city. By that time, Phoebe was going by a different name, her mother’s maiden name. She was working at the casino as one of those people that read palms.

“Delete, delete, delete, block….”

Phoebe’s mumbling brought Evelyn out of the memories of the past. What she wanted to know was why someone in Phoebe’s financial situation back then had turned down a precious job which could have put her on the road to greatness with hard work and the right connections.

“Hey, why did you turn down the job offer from Saxon research labs and run away like that when you woke up after your near drowning incident?”

Phoebe looked at the wall as she scratched her head. She couldn’t explain to Evelyn what happened to her, so she just smiled.

“Forget all that, let’s go. I cannot hide here forever, i must return because i have so much to do. I have clients waiting and they need me as much as i need them.”

She looked at her wrist and smiled. She had five years to live, somehow, she had managed to add years to her life while she was drunk.

[I need to know how I did it so that I can do it again.] She thought.