Since she couldn't help Ethan staying in this house, she decided to do something more meaningful-go to the orphanage to be a volunteer.
Lita was already in her third year at college, and after this summer vacation, she would be a senior. In fact, in the last year of college, they should focus on internship. But because she suddenly married into Selmy family, she had to give up her original plan.
There was only half a month remaining before the vacation was over, so it was not practical to find an internship unit in such a short period of time. In addition, Dean Oliver was also short of manpower, so she went there to help. She planned to find an internship and work seriously after the vacation was over.
Besides the appropriations of higher authority and donations from the society, the orphanage's funding had to count on itself to solve some unexpected events on half of the occasions.
And there were two kinds of donations in society: one was cash, and the other was goods and material.
The biggest part of material was paper, pens and toys. There were not so many children in the orphanage, so there were plenty supplies of this kind. What was needed most was money for treating illness.
To put it more plainly, almost every child sent to the orphanage had some kind of disability, some serious and some less serious. Some of them had congenital heart disease, some of them had leukemia or sepsis, and some were even abandoned to the orphanage just because they had cleft lip and palate.
However, Dean Oliver was a compassionate person. She worked hard for every little life that was sent to the orphanage.
The charity sale was held along the streets by the square, where there were a large passenger flow volume, so as to attract more people to get involved into this activity that was full of positive energy.
Lita, together with several volunteered co worker, was selling some stationeries donated by a company. There were a large number of pens and notebooks, as well as some hand-made crafts made by children in the orphanage.
A pen was sold for ten dollars. The cost of it was one dollar. Half of the buyers just threw the money into the donation box and left. A few people took one or two pens casually. They did not care about the cost of the pens.
However, after working for one morning, the money they received wasn't less than ideal. Most of the buyers were parents or grandparents who brought the children with them to show their love to the orphans.
"Alas, only if there is a tycoon passing by," Uerica Cassidy said with a sigh.
She grew up in the orphanage herself. Because her left foot was a little lame, she was abandoned to the orphanage. Dean Oliver's persistence in having her treated was finally rewarded. Uerica could walk like a normal person. It was just that she couldn't wear heels because heels would magnify the defect of her lame. Therefore, under normal circumstances, she only wore sneakers.
"Uerica, are you having a daydream? How can there be so many tycoons here? Even if there are some, they will only donate to some other organizations who could bring publicity to them. Fund raising on the streets like us could never expect to have tycoon visitors!" the leader of the team, Mason Grecic, said to Uerica bluntly.
Lita passed her a bottle of mineral water so as to comfort her and relieve her thirst. "Uerica, don't sigh. The tycoons didn't get the money without effort. They don't have obligations to give money to charity. We can't others doesn't fall from the sky. They don't have to donate. We can't force them with our morality."
A black Ferrari sped past, but soon stopped and backed up.
"Here comes a tycoon!" Uerica threw down the mineral water bottle rapturously and ran towards the black Ferrari that had come back.
As the car window slid open, Uerica saw a handsome face. She was so excited and nervous that she couldn't even say a word. A man with great charm! Dashing and stylish!
However, Alex's eyes were fixed on Lita, who was talking cheerfully with the team leader Mason. "Why wouldn't she stay at home? Why was she hanging out with this man here and appeared to enjoy it so much?"
Alex's handsome face turned gloomy and scary.
"Sir, would you...would you buy some pens and notebooks? We are raising money for the children of the orphanage." After seeing Alex, Uerica couldn't even speak fluently.
"Ask the woman in the denim dress to come over and talk to me!" Alex stared at Lita at the side.
Lita sensed that there was a pair of powerful eyes looking at her. And this black Ferrari looked so familiar... It turned out to be Alex!
She instinctively wanted to avoid Alex's gaze, so she took a few steps back and hid behind Mason. This action stimulated Alex and his eyes became colder and more horrible.
Uerica seemed to be a little disappointed. Because this young and handsome tycoon ignored her and set his eyes on Lita. But in order to raise money, Uerica put aside her disappointment and walked over to Lita.
Lita, who was hiding behind Mason, waved her hand at the approaching Uerica and whispered, "Uerica, don't come over... Don't come over."
But how could Uerica understand what Lita meant? She walked over with a blank look and told her what Alex said. "Lita, the tycoon over there wants to talk with you."
Lita was stunned. "What is Alex doing? Would he humiliate me in front of so many colleagues?"
Detecting Lita's embarrassment, Mason said, "I'll go and talk to him. Lita, you stay here to count the items we've sold."
A young man drove such a flamboyant and luxurious sports car must be a rich second generation. He chose Lita to talk to him. Mason naturally classified him into the category of people who were seeking troubles. This kind of situation wasn't very common, but he did encounter a few times.
There were some rich playboys who took advantage of their wealth to bully others.
"Sir, would you like to show some of your love to the children in the orphanage?" Mason asked with a professional smile on his face.
Seeing that it wasn't Lita who came, Alex furrowed his eyebrow. "Ask Lita to come over! I will give you what you want!"
Mason was stunned by his domineering air. It seemed that this man was not like an ordinary rich man. His eyes could kill people and destroy the world.
"I'm sorry, sir. Lydia is not in charge of this." Mason managed to keep his smile.
Worrying that the vicious Alex would try to embarrass Mason, Lita had to come forward. She knew too well that one couldn't treat Alex in normal logical thinking.
"Sir, if you make contribution to charity, we are grateful to you! But if you want to mess around, I'm sorry that we won't allow you to do that," Lita came up and said to Alex, neither humble nor pushy. Her tolerance would only make him more impudent.
"Lita, let's trade: How about I trade my love for your love?" To her surprise, Alex did not insult her, but negotiated with her with a pleasant countenance.
"Let me know what your love is first." Lita knew that this man was not an honest person, so she had to be careful.