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!

her, “I’ve only

Douglas to still have around a thousand left, just like her. That way, they’d be able to pool their money

Now, this was embarrassing…

he saw them whispering furtively amongst themselves, and realized that Douglas was probably broke. “Hey, waitress! Add

an absolutely hideous expression

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 earlier, he’d mentioned something about counting on him in case of any trouble—that was why

your money! He’s got friends,

going to lend Douglas a thousand five on short notice? What’s more, his dad would hear about it, sooner or later… and then he’d

He’d be a fool not

for me this time,

have to write me an IOU!” Gerald

waitress produced pen and

of misery, Douglas nevertheless wrote out that IOU and presented

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

“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

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

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