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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!

to whisper to her, “I’ve only got a few hundred left on me… I

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

Now, this was embarrassing…

and realized that Douglas was probably

an absolutely hideous expression on her face right

those two had 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

your money! He’s got friends, you know?” Leila

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

his way out. He’d be a

me this time, and I’ll pay

you’ll have to write me an IOU!”

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misery, Douglas nevertheless wrote out that IOU

side table, and stuffed it back into his wallet,

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

Leila felt like she didn’t even know who he was anymore. Was this really the man she’d