Chapter 257. Meet Again

"Oh, you mean Ruby? Heh heh heh, that is right. We are friends too. A mighty fine woman, that."

Bernard curbed the urge to shudder, as he could imagine just how fine a woman she was with the way the man was smacking his lips while tugging on his goatee.

"You meant she was not the owner but only rented the house?" Bernard asked again.

Yes, na, shebi, I am the one in charge of her place; can I tell you lies? In fact, she paid for it installmentally. As you know, I wouldn't do that for just anyone, but being protective of women, I couldn't possibly send the woman off. Not with that kind of brain. That woman is very brilliant," he said, laughing that weasel laugh again.

Bernard could feel his skin crawl. Normally, he wouldn't even spend a minute with someone like this, but the information had to be garnered if he was to know where that sick woman was, and he hadn't been able to uncover her girlfriend, whom Bernard was sure knew something about what happened to h