My Wife is a Hacker novel (Nicole)

Chapter 2871

"It's our turn now since you've given her your gift already," Lulu teased.

"Of course," Stanley said, not in the least surprised by how others had come to know about Tia's birthday.

He felt that Nicole knew that today was Tia's birthday, and that she had seen her plan to surprise from a mile away. If his guess was correct, Nicole had informed others of the occasion and its purpose.

"You've all prepared gifts too?" Tia asked, her eyes widening in surprise.

The last thing she had expected him to do was throw her a surprise party by inviting all of their close friends to celebrate her birthday this year. The only other thing she did not see coming was that they had shown up bearing gifts.

"Of course we did. Preparing gifts is a must for such an important occasion," Lulu replied, before handing her gift to Tia.

After everyone had given the items they had prepared to Tia, Preston lowered his head awkwardly and apologized. "Sorry, I didn't prepare any."

"Did no one tell you?" Samuel asked, a little taken aback.

of person Preston was, and that the latter coming empty-handed was a result of him being genuinely oblivious to the purpose of this occasion rather than being a

one did," Preston said, his

was aware of Tia's birthday

the opportunity to tease him, Lulu raised her eyebrows. "Well, maybe it's because you don't have

casual chats with one another. Nobody had made any official announcements, so they had accidentally forgotten to inform

you trying to eat my heart

he did not have a girlfriend, and

her shoulders. "I was just reminding you that

implying, Preston helplessly turned to Nicole, his eyes narrowed in discomfort. "Can you count me out like you did for Ellar?

they continued mounting all of that pressure on him, he would find the responsibility too

Ellar retorted in disapproval. "Hey, I'm not throwing anyone under the bus here. Besides, I'll soon have a

had said his piece, Ellar unconsciously glanced over at Patricia. 'If Patricia won't be my

murmured, "Why do I feel like I'm

one single sentence from him got the entire crowd roaring and guffawing, making the atmosphere in the room even

thought. She had seen through Ellar's intentions, but she did not know how to proceed without scarring him in the process. She was thinking of ways to let Ellar know that they could never