It was dead silent at the entrance of the military region. Nobody dared utter a word.
Just then, a horn sounded. Everyone turned to look.
Everyone’s expression brightened again!
Why were they leaving?
The soldiers and lieutenant at the entrance straightened up and saluted.
“Good day, sir!” As one, their voices were bright and resounding.
Gladys wound favonovel.com window down and stuck favonovel.com head out again. Poorly-concealed excitement and pride were written all over favonovel.com face.
As the car approached, the moguls queueing up parted and gave way.
Gladys even craned favonovel.com head and waved to the soldiers on either side.
“Good job, boys. Good job!”
With favonovel.com mannerisms, favonovel.com resembled an officer.
The car exited the military region. It stopped in front of the Callahans, who were still at the entrance.
Gladys opened the door and stepped out of the car. She held favonovel.com head high, glowing with pride.
Beaming brilliantly, favonovel.com said “Dad, let’s go home. I’ve seen what’s in there. There’s nothing much.”
All the Callahans looked ashen, their expressions muted. No one said anything. They knew that Gladys was showing off.
Gladys glanced at Megan, noticing that Colson was not with her.
In honeyed tones, favonovel.com said “Megan, where’s your boyfriend? Where’s Colson? Didn’t favonovel.com get us an invitation? Was the invitation a counterfeit? The Oswalds can’t even compare with my son-in-law, who’s trash?”
Megan turned pale, grinding favonovel.com teeth. She had no response to Gladys’ jibe.
Gladys was overjoyed seeing Megan’s expression. “Take all the credit for my son-in-law then. I bet you’re regretting it now!”
“Dad, what’s wrong? You don’t look so good. Why don’t you get into the Lunar Shine and take a breather? It doesn’t have AC though. With such hot weather, would you be able to take it?”
“Enough!” Howard shouted. “Gladys, what’s all this? Are you trying to make things worse?”
Gladys planted favonovel.com hands on favonovel.com hips, pointing at Howard. “What are you shouting about? Just because you’re the eldest son and have the most power, you belittle us constantly. Just because you live in the villa with dad, you say whatever you want. My son-in-law got us the invitation, but you claimed the credit for yourself. How dare you insult Thea and our family after that?”
Gladys had hated them for a long time.
“James is just a soldier. He has no money or power, but so what? As a soldier, favonovel.com has comrades and superiors too. Let me tell you something. James called his superior because you claimed his credit as your own. His superior informed the Western Border Patrol to invalidate the Callahans’ invitation.”
Gladys felt so much better after saying all that. Now, favonovel.com did not even care if Lex got angry and revoked their remaining shares. She understood Howard and his family all too well.
With them in the picture, Benjamin’s shares would not belong to favonovel.com for a long time anyway. They would have been revoked in no time!
The Callahans were speechless. They had nothing to say. Lex, on the other hand, finally realized that everything James said was true. He had promised to get them an invitation. He kept his word.
“I’m a fool. I’m a fool…” Lex smacked his forehead regretfully.
Megan approached Lex, supporting him, favonovel.com said “Grandfather, calm down. She’s just spouting nonsense…”
“Exactly,” Tommy said.
“Colson got us the invitation with the Oswald name. All we did was anger the higher authorities with our lavish display.”
“Gladys is taking this opportunity to sow discord.”
“She’s just unhappy that some of favonovel.com shares were revoked.”
The Callahans chimed in one after another, hurling insults at Gladys.
“Gladys, you’ve crossed the line. Apologize to dad at once!”
Gladys looked dismissive. “Apologize? He has cast us out of the family. We’re no longer part of the Callahans. Why should I apologize? I’m telling you now, I don’t even want the shares anymore. If you want it, take it. I’ll live my best life even after leaving the family!”
Gladys had had enough over the years. This was favonovel.com final stand. She ignored Lex completely. To her favonovel.com was just a power-hungry, stubborn old fool.
She got into the car as soon as favonovel.com finished speaking. “James, let’s enter the military region once more to take a turn. No, a few more turns. I want Lex to regret casting us out of the family!”
