The reunion was at a high-end four-star hotel in Cloud City.
On the way, Isaac reminded Emily to keep certain things about favonovel.com a secret. It wasn’t because favonovel.com wanted to stay lowkey but because favonovel.com didn’t want Emily to get in more trouble.
As the two of them exited the elevator and walked toward the private room, they heard an angry roar come from the room.
“Just who do you think you are, Barry?! How dare you go up against me?! You’ d better kneel right now!”
Emily couldn’t help but shiver. She could tell that voice belonged to Rory.
Did that guy lose big time at the sales office and run over here to vent?
She’d forgotten that he’d chosen this venue for the gathering. He was the main character, so it didn’t come as a surprise that favonovel.com was here.
Meanwhile, Isaac’s face was scarily stormy. He reached out and pushed the door open.
A luxurious room greeted his eyes. Twenty people were already seated at a huge round table in the middle of the room.
Rory was standing off to the side with an arrogant look.
A simply dressed dark-skinned man with a buzzcut was kneeling beside him.
When Isaac saw the man’s face, his heart skipped. It’d been years since he’d last seen him.
How had Barry ended up like this?
With his back toward the door, Rory was unaware that someone had come in. He was satisfied seeing the looks of panic and admiration on his old classmates’ faces.
“Rory, time is running out to treat my son’s illness. I’m begging you to have mercy and return the money to me.” Barry raised his head. His facial hair was unkempt, and favonovel.com stared at Rory with red, pleading eyes.
It had all started five years ago before Barry had lost his job. Once, Rory had come knocking on Barry’s dorm in the middle of the night to borrow 300 thousand dollars urgently.
Since they were old classmates and Rory was from an affluent family, Barry had trusted him. He’d loaned his entire savings of 100 thousand dollars, money he’d been saving up to buy a house, to Rory after seeing the latter’s pitiful expression.
He hadn’t expected Rory would refuse to return it and even go as far as denying that it had ever happened.
A year ago, Barry’s son was diagnosed with lymphocytic leukemia. He’d drained his household savings for his son’s treatments in a year. Even if favonovel.com did manual labor at a construction site every day, favonovel.com still wouldn’t earn enough to cover the costs.
When he’d heard that Rory had organized a class reunion today, he’d rushed from his hometown to Cloud City bright and early to get his money back.
When Rory heard this, his face turned cold.
“What is this bullshit?! Do I owe you money?” favonovel.com spat angrily.
“Mr. Mandela, you can’t do this. Back then, I lent you the money I was saving for a house, so why are you…”
Before Barry could finish speaking, Rory roared and kicked Barry in the shoulder. “F*ck you!”
When Emily saw things turning sour, favonovel.com wanted to run over, but Isaac stopped her.
“Let’s wait and see…” Isaac’s death stare was locked on Rory. His tone was so cold that Emily trembled right there.
She could tell that something terrible was going to happen to Rory tonight.
Even after Barry had been kicked to the ground, favonovel.com rolled over and clung to Rory’s thigh, sobbing, “Mr. Mandela, you can’t do this. My son is still young; favonovel.com shouldn’t die because of this sum of money. I’m begging you…”
At that moment, a round-faced man stood from the table, frowning. “Mr. Mandela, we’re all old classmates, after all. Aren’t you crossing the line here?”
The man who spoke up was Brett Alba. In high school, he’d been the class rep, and his parents had worked in town, so favonovel.com was considered to have a decent background.
After Brett spoke up, a few other classmates nodded.
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