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

still have around a thousand left, just like her. That way, they’d be able to pool their money and fumble their way out of this mess somehow… but he barely had any cash on

Now, this was embarrassing…

them whispering furtively amongst themselves, and realized that Douglas was probably broke. “Hey, waitress! Add it to my bill! I’ll

wearing an absolutely hideous expression

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

He’s got friends, you

What’s more, his dad would hear about it, sooner or later… and then he’d be in for

be a

Douglas said. “Just cover for me

you’ll have to write me an IOU!” Gerald

waitress produced pen and

face a portrait of misery, Douglas nevertheless wrote out that IOU and presented it

he took back that hundred-dollar bill on the side table, and stuffed it back into his

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

speak like this, Leila felt like she didn’t even know who he was

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