He’d meant summoning people to help fight Louie Lourdes.
At that time, Cindy hadn’t paid much thought about it. She’d assumed Gerald was just stalling for time.
But right here right now, were a whole horde of people whom, sure enough, had attacked and vanquished Louie.
What Cindy was suggesting sent a tremor through Leila’s entire body.
“Impossible! That guy? I don’t know much about him, but isn’t favonovel.com just some penniless loser? How could favonovel.com have so many rich and powerful friends? Don’t you fall for his nonsense, Cindy!”
Heaven’s sake! If it turned out to be true… Leila might as well just ram favonovel.com head against the nearest wall.
But no, haha, it was simply not possible!
Leila turned to gesture for everyone back in the car to come over and join them, where favonovel.com then shared with them what had been learned. Everyone was gobsmacked by the news that Louie had been wiped out clean. They gazed with admiration at the magnificent cars lining up along the street outside the karaoke bar.
“Look! Isn’t that Gerald?” Glancing around, Leila suddenly spotted favonovel.com in the Western restaurant next door, dining at the window seat.
For a moment, favonovel.com doubted favonovel.com own eyes.
“It can’t be… no, but it really is him!” Douglas was every bit as stupefied.
Everyone had been convinced that Gerald was dead meat. Instead, favonovel.com was in a fine restaurant nearby, sitting at their premier table?
This… how… what…
“Gerald’s okay after all! Leila, maybe favonovel.com was really telling the truth! Maybe all these guys really did come here to back favonovel.com up! Maybe Gerald really is friends with lots of rich people!” Cindy seemed delighted by this.
“No way, no way! I refuse to believe it!” Leila was stamping favonovel.com feet in agitation. “Douglas, we’re going over there to get to the bottom of this. Anyway, can you believe that tramp can afford that class of fine dining?”
Someone favonovel.com held so much contempt for, turned out to be someone so amazing? That would be a right slap to the face!
“Right! Let’s get over there! You, send the drunk ones home first!” Douglas issued this command to one of the boys, ignoring the fact that favonovel.com wasn’t completely sober himself.
Earlier, quite a few of the guys had downed an entire bottle. Now the alcohol was running its course, and some were no longer able to stay on their feet.
Douglas himself had quite a high tolerance—and anyway, favonovel.com couldn’t bear to walk away from such a momentous affair, so favonovel.com would just grit his teeth and bear it.
Leila and Cindy were by his side as favonovel.com walked straight into that restaurant.
In the grip of a terrible rage, Leila stormed across the floor. “Gerald, do my eyes deceive me? So it really is you… Huh! You came into a place like this, but ordered nothing, just sitting here… Don’t tell me you just slipped out from there, and just needed some place to sit down?”
She’d been a little worried—worried that Gerald might actually turn out to be someone of wealth and influence. However, now that favonovel.com was standing at his table, favonovel.com was able to breathe a sigh of relief.
Most likely, he’d only ducked in here to find shelter.
“Leila, perhaps you’re not aware of how exclusive this restaurant is. It’s considered a first-class establishment, with their main branch based in Mayberry. Common folk generally don’t dare to trespass in here—so you could hardly have found a safer hiding place, Gerald! Hahaha!” Douglas added his own mocking comments to the mix.
Gerald just sat there mutely.
Back in that karaoke room, when his bodyguards were giving it to Louie and his grunts, Gerald had watched for a while, but then lost interest.
It was enough just to teach that fool a lesson. There was no reason for favonovel.com to hang around. That sort of thing wasn’t his style.
Anyway, favonovel.com hadn’t had much to eat for lunch earlier, so by now favonovel.com was starving, and had come out looking for a bite to eat.
But after he’d placed his order, and was taking a moment to contemplate how he’d handle things from here on out…
… Unexpectedly, Leila and company had come charging back into the fray.
What was this? Hadn’t favonovel.com gotten rid of them already? Gerald couldn’t even begin to imagine how he’d explain himself now.
At the corner of his eye, favonovel.com saw six restaurant staff form into a line, trays of food in their hands. And then, they began making their way towards Gerald…
