Fall for You After Divorce by Callie

Chapter 7

Maxim’s eyes flashed with anticipation, and yet disappointment replaced the expression when he saw the caller ID flickering on the screen.

It was Kiley. The second he picked the phone up, he heard her voice with a smile. She said, “Maxim, my grandpa’s birthday is coming up, and my parents put me in charge of delivering invitations. Are you free later? I’m just passing by the Yoder Group, and I’ll drop you off the invitation. We can have lunch together. What do you say?”

Maxim said indifferently, “OK.”

“Alright. See you later.”

After putting down the phone, he wasn’t at ease at all. Instead, he was even more irritated and depressed. He couldn’t read the files in his hand at all.

To his surprise, Briana was so resolute this time and wouldn’t reach out to him whatsoever.

Suddenly, someone knocked on the door.

Rayan came in with a document and looked solemn. “Mr. Yoder, I just got the news that the land in the east of the city seems to be auctioned in advance!”

Maxim’s expression changed, and he immediately said, “Go tell the project manager and the shareholders that a meeting will be held in five minutes.”

When Kiley arrived, Maxim was still in the meeting. Rayan received her.

“Ms. Schneider, Mr. Yoder has just started a meeting. He asked me to take you to his office and wait for him.”

She smiled gently, “Thank you.”

Rayan led Kiley into Maxim’s office, told her to tell him if she needed anything, and then left.

After the door was closed, Kiley went to Maxim’s desk. She was about to put the gold-plated invitation on the desk when she saw a red box on it and paused for a moment.

It looked like a jewelry box. Considering that her birthday was coming up as well, she wondered whether this was Maxim’s birthday gift for her.

After a moment’s hesitation, Kiley picked up the box.

She thought, “It’s his gift for me anyway. I guess taking a look won’t matter.”

box and saw the necklace

it was for, he didn’t say anything. Now she knew he wanted to surprise

mood suddenly brightened. She smiled, closed the box, and put

the

his eyes flashed with

gentle smile and said tenderly, “It’s fine. I understand. I ordered

“OK.”

desk. My grandpa’s birthday is next Saturday. Are

the next few days, and I may not be able to come back on

By the way, have you heard from my sister recently? I’ve been calling her, and all I’ve got is a busy tone. Do you know where

of Briana, Maxim frowned, and his voice

things between my sister and the family aren’t that good. She was brought back when she was 16 years old, and then she has been feeling that my parents are biased. She had a fallout with them a while ago. It’s Grandpa’s birthday next Saturday, so I want to ask her to

silence, Maxim said coldly, “I’ll tell her about

Maxim was reluctant to talk about it, Kiley didn’t continue. She changed the topic and talked about

***

Briana finished the plan than she received a call

your grandpa’s birthday next

voice, “I recently found a job. I may

heard Zane’s furious voice. “What’s more important than your grandpa’s birthday? I don’t care. You must show up

was different now. A month ago, Desmond had told Zane that Maxim must show up at his birthday party so that others would be intimidated and wouldn’t dare

thought about it. She figured that she indeed ought to tell them face to face that she and Maxim were going to

to make time

without

displeased with Zane’s behavior and frowned. “You already asked Kiley to send Maxim the invitation. Then why did you ask Briana to

Briana, the daughter who had not grown up with her since childhood, even though Briana looked like

and Kiley, a friend of the Schneider family whom the Schneider family trusted a lot suddenly came to the door, saying that keeping Briana around would

finally decided to leave Briana

age of sixteen, and none of the Schneider family’s

were twins, so they were genetically similar to each other. The match was a success, and Briana donated bone marrow to

year would come back to them, which always irritated them, so they had always

a rural family in a remote area, she figured that Briana was nothing but a bumpkin who smelt like dirt. Whenever Briana stood next to Kiley, the daughter she had doted on

conversation would always

now, Mallory couldn’t even hide the disgust

said,