This time, it was a call from Giya.
“It’s your birthday tomorrow right, Gerald?” asked Giya as soon as favonovel.com picked up.
“Hmm…”
“Humph! Why didn’t you invite me over to celebrate with you then? I was waiting all day for you to call me today! It’s already this late yet you still haven’t invited me… Could it be that you’ve already forgotten about me?”
“Not at all. It’s just that since I’m back in my hometown, I was just planning to have a simple birthday celebration!” explained Gerald.
To be completely honest, Gerald really hadn’t planned to invite Giya at all.
Though favonovel.com was very nice to him, Gerald simply wanted to be together with Mila now. He didn’t want to get too close to other girls. Therefore, favonovel.com summarized that continuing to have such a complicated relationship with Giya just wouldn’t do.
What more, Giya had gotten into trouble when favonovel.com was here with favonovel.com the last time. Gerald felt embarrassed to even invite favonovel.com to come over again.
“Whether you’re inviting me or not, I’m coming over to your house to look for you tomorrow. Unless… you don’t regard me as your friend at all…?”
Giya leaned favonovel.com head against the bed’s headboard as favonovel.com spoke through the landline. She was currently in a room in a villa.
Over the line, Gerald could only agree helplessly as favonovel.com nodded. Immediately after that, favonovel.com came up with an excuse saying that favonovel.com was busy and ended the call.
“Humph! You b*stard! You’re really heartless toward me!” said Giya with a desolate expression on favonovel.com face before hanging up as well.
She had initially expected Gerald to take the initiative to invite favonovel.com over to celebrate his birthday with him. On the contrary, favonovel.com now felt that if favonovel.com hadn’t called him, favonovel.com definitely wouldn’t have invited favonovel.com over at all.
What more, since that major incident, whenever favonovel.com tried looking for Gerald just to have a simple chat with him, he’d always reply indifferently. At most, it was common for favonovel.com to reply with just a few words.
This made Giya slightly uncomfortable. The more uncomfortable favonovel.com felt, the more favonovel.com couldn’t help but overthink the matter.
At that moment, knocking could be heard on favonovel.com bedroom door.
“Giya? Are you asleep? Your father and I have some things to discuss with you!” said Giya’s mother from behind the door.
“Dad, mom, I’m not asleep yet! You can come in!”
Both favonovel.com parents then entered favonovel.com bedroom. Giya could see that favonovel.com father had a very sad expression on his face.
“Giya, I know that you don’t want to hear this, but the Quarrington family in Yanken is giving us the orders this time. They want you to get engaged with the third young master from the Long family in Yanken. There’s really nothing else that we can do about the matter.”
“Mr. Crawford has already helped us settle our family’s economic problems last time. However, the Quarrington family is still pressuring us even now. We really can’t do anything about it and we can’t always rely on Mr. Crawford to help us. So tell us Giya, what do you think about a marriage contract with the Long family?” asked Giya’s father.
Giya’s mother sighed before saying, “Though we’ve already ended our relationship with the Quarrington family, the influence and power they hold over us is simply too great. Please don’t blame your father, he’s done everything he’s could. You have to consider how this is putting the company’s interests at stake here. In extension, it’s also going to affect your uncles and all the other employees working for our family as well!”
“Is there really no other way? You know, we can still beg Gerald to help us! He’ll definitely help me!” replied Giya, favonovel.com eyes tearing up.
“Giya, though Mr. Crawford is very capable, the Mayberry Commercial Group is only influential in Mayberry City. The Quarrington and Long family, on the other hand, have even bigger groups and corporations in Yanken!” said favonovel.com father with a sigh.
“What more, the third young master of the Long family may even come over to pay us a visit tomorrow. You’ll have to stay home and prepare to meet up with him. If favonovel.com leaves a really bad impression on you, we may still have some time to think of a solution then!” added Giya’s father.
“No! I’m not free tomorrow! It’s Gerald’s birthday and I’m going to celebrate it with him!” replied Giya angrily.
“You are not to go anywhere tomorrow. You shouldn’t bother Mr. Crawford about our issues anymore. You’re just a young girl who doesn’t understand anything at all!”
As soon as favonovel.com finished his sentence, Giya’s father pulled favonovel.com mother out of favonovel.com bedroom immediately.
Giya was so anxious about the whole thing that favonovel.com was ready to burst into tears.
Moving back to Gerald, favonovel.com woke up at six in the morning the next day.
Gerald had a call with Zack last night. He wanted to welcome his 22nd birthday.
Since the guests could arrive early, Gerald decided to tidy up the place a little first.
At that moment, a girl suddenly entered through the front door.
“Gerald! I heard from my mother that you had come back, but I’ve tried looking for you a few times and you were never home!”
