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.”

mocked his own fate.

lit it. He nodded, “Whatever you do, as long as you stay true to your beliefs, you’ll surely

I can tell that you’re still the old you, Let’s go out for

different class of society than me, he’s

then, you can pick a timing. I’ll

“I’ll call

you

chucked. He added as an afterthought, “Remember to give

eyes

would

is still the old Dylan. Anyone else would try to butter me up. At the very least, their be filled with fear and would be hesitant to act so casually around me. Dylan doesn’t care. As long as you respect

Jessica entered the office in trepidation, worried that Alex would tell her to do cleaning

greeted him timidly.

greeting. He felt like laughing

stack of documents, “Will an hour be enough for you to sort

that she had actual work to do.

documents and nodded, “I’ll finish it in half an

and she brought the documents to

the boss‘ secretary was entitled

brought the sorted documents back into

at

left as Alex had not assigned

this point, Alex’s

It was Dylan.

going to arrange a timing to go

Alex replied.

can you…” Dylan sounded hesitant, and his voice was shaking.

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,

the sound of a man snatching the phone. The same voice yelled, “You’re Dylan’s friend, right? He owes me two hundred grand. If you don’t pay

and a murderous glint flashed across his eyes.

university and was as close as brothers. Anyone who wanted to chop his brother’s hands off was looking

bring the money over,” Alex replied

getting the address, Alex got up

gotten Jonathan to get him a license plate. Thus, he did not have his car with him

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

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