Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 405
“That’s right, sir. One thousand and five hundred dollars!” The waitress beamed.

 

Douglas’s face was a sight to behold. At first, he’d thought to just toss down a hundred bucks, and then swagger out of there. He’d never expected that bunch of flowers to be worth so much!

If he called his father over to make some noise…

No, that wouldn’t do. This restaurant chain was owned by a powerful figure over at Mayberry. Whatever clout his family had counted for nothing in here!

But neither did he have a thousand five hundred on him right now!

“Hmph. So it’s a thousand five, so what? No big deal!” Leila sneered. She was this close to slapping the money in that waitress’s face.

Gerald was watching. No matter what, she had to have the last word in this!

Leila glanced towards Douglas. He’d definitely be able to do something about this!

whisper to her, “I’ve only got a few hundred left on me… I can’t

way, they’d be able to pool their money and fumble

Now, this was embarrassing…

themselves, and realized that Douglas was probably broke. “Hey, waitress! Add

was wearing an absolutely hideous expression

been very rude to him, Gerald nevertheless couldn’t bear to see Leila caught in such a plight. Anyway, when they’d encountered each other again earlier, he’d mentioned something about counting on him in case of any trouble—that was why he spoke

your money! He’s got friends, you

five on short notice? What’s more, his dad would hear

was his way out. He’d be

cover for me this time, and I’ll pay you

problem—but you’ll have to write me an

waitress produced pen and paper

Douglas nevertheless wrote out that IOU and

bill on the side table, and stuffed it back into his wallet, before making his

get back at Gerald a little. “Hmph! Leila, it would have been silly not to take advantage of that fool, back there! I’ve been disgraced in front of him this time, but heh! When he comes calling for me to pay back that IOU, well, fat chance! It’s not like that worm’s got any kind of

him speak like this, Leila felt like she didn’t even know who he was anymore. Was this

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