When Gerald, Harper, and a few others arrived at the restaurant, Naomi was already there with favonovel.com cousin, Xyleena.
Cassandra, Felicity, and Yvonne were there too. Sitting beside Xyleena, was a young man in his mid-twenties. He wore a suit and his shoes were made of leather.
Xyleena looked as feminine as ever. She was one of the more outstanding people in society, and favonovel.com had social connections all over the place.
Gerald, Harper, and many others knew Xyleena mostly due to favonovel.com social connections with them. This, however, granted them the knowledge that Xyleena was actually a rather arrogant person. She only helped Gerald and a few others find part-time jobs because they were friends with Naomi. Otherwise, favonovel.com wouldn’t even have batted an eyelid at them.
“Come, take a seat. All of you,” Xyleena said in a soft voice.
Gerald complied.
“What a frightening chain of events, last night was. We’ll have a toast in a bit, but before that, I’d like to introduce someone to all of you. This man is Brian Merrall, and he’s been my friend all the way back from high school. He’s the team leader of the criminal investigation team in Mayberry and he’s also the one I called for help yesterday!”
“Nice to meet you Brian. Thank you very much for saving us!” said Yvonne. After realizing who Brian was, Yvonne couldn’t help but admire him.
“You’re very welcome. I’m just doing my job. Honestly, it should be me thanking all of you. After catching the suspects yesterday, we were able to uncover an even bigger criminal case that they were involved in. If it wasn’t for you, we may never have gotten the chance to take down such a powerful person as Jake.” Brian smiled after finishing his sentence.
“Look at how well-spoken favonovel.com is, Naomi! Let’s have a toast with the one who saved you!”
Seeing that favonovel.com cousin wasn’t reacting appropriately, Xyleena took it into favonovel.com own hands to remind favonovel.com cousin immediately.
“Oh yes, aside from thanking Brian, I would also like to thank Gerald as well. If it wasn’t for him, we may never have been saved in time!” said Naomi.
After all, if favonovel.com hadn’t told anyone about the call, who knows what would have become of them.
“What are you doing Naomi? I told you to thank Inspector Merrall, not Gerald,” said Xyleena, slightly unhappy.
“Xyleena’s right, what did that poor man do? He said favonovel.com was going to launch a police report but favonovel.com must have been too stunned to do anything. Had Xyleena not messaged favonovel.com or called Inspector Merrall, all of us could be dead by now!” said Yvonne.
Brian simply shook his head and laughed.
“Well said! If anyone is to receive our gratitude, it should be Xyleena and Inspector Merrall! I’ll be having tea instead of wine, but allow me to toast to you. Since I failed to protect Naomi and the others, I’ll drink first!” said Cassandra as favonovel.com smiled.
Clearly, favonovel.com didn’t care about Gerald at all.
While all this was happening, Naomi felt that something was off.
She realized that Brian had not appeared at all throughout their rescue mission the day before. On another note, Leopold was also clearly much stronger than Brian in terms of both aura and strength.
Something was definitely wrong.
In addition to that, Naomi felt slightly sick hearing how the rest continued to ridicule Gerald.
“Naomi, I know that you have quite a good relationship with Gerald. How about this, I’ll use my connections to try landing favonovel.com a job with benefits. One that includes endowment insurance, medical insurance, unemployment insurance, work-related injury insurance, and even childbirth insurance!” said Xyleena. She didn’t want to embarrass favonovel.com cousin too much.
“Is that true, cousin? How about a job with all the previous insurances as well as housing funds?” asked Naomi.
“That would be quite difficult! Only outstanding companies provide their employees with housing funds these days. With Gerald, it may be a little difficult to arrange such a company to take favonovel.com in. However, I’ll try my best!” said Xyleena before coughing slightly.
It was quite obvious that favonovel.com was indirectly saying that Gerald was clearly not that capable.
“Xyleena’s right. If Gerald gets into an outstanding company, he’ll most probably only be a hindrance to the other employees!” Yvonne said without filtering favonovel.com words at all.
“That’s true! The best favonovel.com can do is paperwork or be an office worker given his character. He really can’t do much else and even the counselor would agree,” said Felicity as favonovel.com shook favonovel.com head, a bitter smile on favonovel.com face.
Gerald felt his blood boil as favonovel.com heard all the insults.
‘D*amn it, this happens every time! It’s almost as if they run out of topics to say if they’re not mocking me!’
‘Sure, I was an honest man before this, but that doesn’t mean I’m stupid.’
‘I was only honest because I didn’t have much money or power.’
Gerald fumed angrily in silence.
At that moment, his phone rang.
Glancing at it to see who was calling, favonovel.com saw that it was his sister.
He then got up and walked away from them before picking up.
