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.

empty-handed was a result of him being genuinely oblivious to the purpose of this occasion rather than being

did," Preston said, his eyes

wondered why everyone was aware of Tia's birthday except

her eyebrows. "Well, maybe it's because you don't have a

to know about Tia's birthday through frequent and casual chats with one another. Nobody had made any official

eat my

not his fault that he did not have a girlfriend, and Lulu's jibes at

shrugging her shoulders. "I was just reminding

implying, Preston helplessly turned to Nicole, his eyes narrowed in discomfort. "Can you

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

I'm not throwing anyone under the bus here. Besides, I'll soon

at Patricia. 'If Patricia won't be

murmured, "Why do I feel like I'm the only one

and guffawing, making the atmosphere in the room even merrier

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