Son-In-Law Gets an Upgrade by Mr. Adeel

Chapter 25 Old Friend

“Mr. Jefferson, let’s have lunch together,” Jessica extended an invitation during lunch hours.

After cleaning for an entire morning, Jessica knew that Alex was trying to make life difficult for her.

Hence, she wanted to invite him for lunch to mend their relationship.

“No.” Alex refused her directly.

“I’ll be heading for lunch myself, then,” Jessica replied awkwardly.

“Alright,” Alex acknowledged without even looking up.

After Jessica left, he ordered takeout.

He just took over the company, and there were a lot of matters he had to take care of. Hence, Alex did not want to waste time leaving the office for lunch.

He had a habit of finishing the task at hand before moving on to anything else.

Half an hour later, the takeout had arrived. Alex allowed the deliveryman to enter when he heard the knocking.

“A–Alex?” the deliveryman stared at Alex in shock.

Alex looked up and exclaimed with surprise, “Dylan?”

He had not expected his deliveryman to be his university classmate, Dylan.

“Oh my gosh, Alex, I thought you were a live–in son–in–law? You’re the chairman here!” Dylan exclaimed in shock.

“Well, that’s life. You’ll never know when the smallest things might change your life, Haha.” Alex was happy to see his old friend as well.

Back when he was in university, he once invited Heather and her friend to have a meal at a restaurant only to realize that he had forgotten to bring money. If Dylan had not lent him the money back then, he would have been embarrassed.

Now that I think about it, I haven’t returned him the money yet.

“That’s right. Life really is full of ups and downs.”

Dylan placed Alex’s meal on the table and passed Alex a cigarette. He reminiseed, “Back when we graduated, I dreamed of a future where I’ll be able to do something big with my career. However, shortly after I got employed by a small company, it was shut down because of an economic downturn. Now, I’m reduced to being a deliveryman.”

his

do, as long as you stay true to your beliefs,

I can tell

of a different class of society than me,

timing. I’ll be sure to

“I’ll call

you

as an afterthought, “Remember to

eyes

would

their be filled with fear and would be hesitant to act so casually around

worried that Alex would tell her to

Jessica greeted him timidly.

Alex returned the greeting. He felt like laughing when he saw Jessica’s cautious expression.

“Will an hour be enough for you to

that she had actual work to do.

took the documents and nodded, “I’ll

she brought the documents to her own office.

top five hundred firms, the boss‘ secretary was entitled to

minutes later, Jessica brought the sorted

at the shelf.

placed the documents down, she left as Alex had not assigned

Alex’s phone rang.

It was Dylan.

that Dylan was going to arrange a timing to go drinking with him.

Alex

hesitant, and his voice was

Just as he was about to ask what was going on, he heard a cold voice holler, “Just tell him outright that you need a loan! You must have a death wish, stuttering like

right? He owes

glint flashed across

his best friend in university and was as close as brothers. Anyone who wanted to chop his brother’s

I’ll bring the money over,” Alex

the address, Alex

gotten Jonathan to get

that, but he had ditched his electric scooter at the showroom the previous day as