Back to the Past: Breaking the Love Spell

Chapter 279

Wanda couldn’t help softening at Gerard’s pleading gaze. “If you insist on getting the check, you may do so, Mr. Zahn.”

Jenny sat down in quiet reluctance.

Gerard gave Wanda a grateful look and returned to his seat.

He pulled out his phone and said with a sigh, “I’ve been so busy these days that I forgot to invite Carlisle to join us for a meal. How about I give him a call right now and you can have an impromptu get–together?” He decided to use Carlisle as his safety net. Surely Carlisle’s presence would make Wanda and the others more amiable.

Wanda saw through Gerard’s motives but did not stop him. She figured this was a good chance to assess if Carlisle was on good terms with him and Maria. If they were close, Wanda wouldn’t mind going easy on the terms of the loan.

Ten minutes ago elsewhere, Carlisle sat with Daniel, Francis, and Olivia at a table set up outside A1 Seafood Restaurant.

Shane had yet to arrive, and the dishes had yet to be served.

Olivia had told everyone the story of how she and Shane became a couple. As it turned out, they came from the same village.

Their parents also worked in the same quarry, but there was a terrible rockslide six years ago. Instead of taking accountability, the owner of the quarry ran off without offering any bereavement payouts to the families of those affected by the incident.

Shane’s grandparents were so heartbroken by the loss of his parents that they ended up passing away from grief themselves. Shane had raised himself since then, making a living by tending to his family’s orchard.

job in the village. Her grandparents probably died out of

do all sorts of odd jobs to make ends meet. However, her measly income was barely enough to put food on the

off from school just to toil away on the farmlands and orchards. They would work

get into Riverland University through his excellent grades and discipline, Olivia got into a second–rate

while

uremia. She thought her

to save her mother, he beat

expenses that came with lifelong dialysis, Olivia’s mother

mother for her treatments. It was then that Olivia learned Shane had

source of income, he worked through the

that he

told me, but I saw needle marks on his arms. I suspect he might have sold pints of

a couple of tissues. “I don’t think so. He must have done something else to come up with

said, “I don’t

illegal. He’s too good for that.”

“Carlisle, Dan!”

moment. When he saw Olivia at the table,

him and her tears fell even

feet and gave up his seat for Shane, who took it and asked, “Olivia, what are