Bea’s aunts started ridiculing her and sneering at her.Bea’s mother, on the other hand, stood at the side of the room, not daring to speak up for her own daughter. She simply wore an ugly expression on her face.She had already told Bea many times not to come here with Gerald. However, it was clear that Bea was defying her order as Gerald was standing right there!“Third aunt, sixth aunt, he is not my boyfriend. He’s actually my cousin, Gerald!” Bea replied.“What? Ger…Gerald?!”“It’s him!”Silence descended upon the room as soon as those words came out from her mouth.Everyone’s eyes were fixed on Gerald.Although they knew that Yulia had given birth to a pair of children, Jessica and Gerald, after she left, this was the first time that they had seen either one of them in two whole decades!“How blessed and fortunate that woman is to have such a handsome son!” One of the women sneered slightly.“Cousin, let me introduce them to you. This is…”Bea started introducing he
“You have misunderstood me, grandma. I have no intentions of taking any of the Yaleman family’s assets at all!”Gerald replied with a subtle frown.“Hmph! Ever since your mother, that ungrateful daughter of mine left the Yaleman family, all of you no longer have anything to do with the Yaleman family! I have already made it official that I have severed all ties with that girl! Before you proceed, understand what has already happened.” The old lady sneered.Gerald did not say anything at all.Seeing how tense the situation had become, the fourth uncle cleared his throat before speaking up.“Ahem, mom, look. No matter what happened between you and her, Gerald is still your grandson. I for one, think it’s a good thing for the kid to still have some sense of filial piety. This is the first time that he has come back home so I’d advise you to stop scaring him away! Gerald, come here! Since all of the elders of the family are all gathered here, why don’t you come and serve them some t
“Aren’t you really good at talking? Why don’t you show me how capable you are then? If you can’t even contribute to the family, then both you and your mother will only be able to get a small share of the family fortune!”Rose’s mouth was destructive, just like a cannon.Her fourth and fifth brother’s families used to have a pretty close relationship with Yulia back then.Yulia’s relationship with Rose, on the other hand, had always been strained.Back when Rose was working for the company, Yulia discovered that she had been misappropriating the company’s funds. This led to Yulia personally reporting her findings of Rose to Lady Yaleman, who then proceeded to slap the culprit right in front of everybody during one of their family meetings.Rose and Yulia had been at odds with one another since that very day.She hated Yulia and she eventually began to hate her fourth and fifth brother’s families too.Yuma and Rose were the ones who were in control of most of the company’s resou
Marilyn led Giya up to the third floor.“The clothes on the third floor are all very expensive. Are you sure you want to shop here?” Giya asked with a half-hearted smile.All the clothes in this shop were branded, but the clothes on the third floor were considered the crème de la crème of branded items.This also happened to be the place where many young girls loved to shop around.Even if they could not afford to buy it, they would at least have to be familiar with the items up on sale, just for the sake of keeping up with the crowd.“We can just shop around on the third floor first. If there is something that really suits me, then I will buy it no matter what the price is!”Marilyn replied with a beaming smile.After that, both of them started working their way through the third floor.At one point, they walked into a very popular branded boutique.“Wow! Giya, look! Look how pretty this dress is! I’m gonna try it on! Hehehe!”Marilyn had taken a liking to a long one-piece
She only had about seven to nine thousand dollars with her.“What’s the matter? Is $13,999 too expensive for you?”Gerald asked Marilyn while chuckling to himself.After all, Marilyn was the one who poked his head and mocked him yesterday.Gerald felt the urge to settle his grudge with her today.So, Gerald responded jokingly.“Hey, watch it. How can I possibly not be able to afford this dress?”Marilyn thought how outrageous it would be for a pauper like Gerald to be actually looking down on her.“Alright then, we’ll buy another dress! So, please pack this dress up for us!” Gerald replied with a mischievous smile.The salesgirl was surprised and delighted at the same time when she heard this.“You must be bragging! It would already be great if you could afford even one of these pieces here! Hmph! If he is going to buy two pieces, I’ll buy three! In any case, I’ll buy a piece more than him!”Marilyn was hellbent on winning the little competition with Gerald.“Mom, come here
The salesgirl was taken aback by Gerald’s tone.Even Rose and the others were surprised by his sudden change in attitude.His voice was by no means deafening, but the hostile expression Gerald wore made everyone shudder in fear.“Hmph! You’re still adamant about buying ten of ‘em huh? The cheapest of these clothes cost at least six grand! It’ll cost you tens of thousands of dollars judging by the number you specified. Are you serious about your purchase?” Rose and the others despised the feeling of being intimidated by Gerald.Was he really planning to buy ten of these dresses?Hahaha!They started sneering as they ridiculed him.Bea also tugged on Gerald’s arm as she said, “Forget it. Eldest aunt is right. We will never be able to afford the clothes here. I think it’s best if we leave now!”“It’s okay. I’ve already said that I’ll buy you these clothes! Look, the ones you tried on just now looked A-okay, so why not? Miss, if you will, please help me check how much they cost.
If Rose was simply taunting him and ridiculing him alone just now, he would not have said anything at all. Gerald was still the same old tolerant Gerald.However, he could not allow her to insult Bea like this.The kindness his fifth uncle had shown his own mother back then was not something that could be made up for with cold hard cash. What Gerald wanted was justice for Bea.To his surprise, in the process of doing so, $1,200,000.00 had been swiped directly from his bank card.But it did not really matter to him. After all, $1,200,000.00 or $120,000.00 made no difference to Gerald now. Aside from a difference in the number of digits, nothing about that sum was significant enough to frustrate him.“But cousin, this…this is too expensive! Hurry up and get a refund!”Bea said as she jumped around anxiously.“What? Why would you ask him to do that? If he wants to insert that amount into a membership card for you, you should just let him do it! Hahaha! This fool! Putting so much
“Are you saying that the clothes that Gerald wore cost just as much?” Rose asked in disbelief.“Impossible! It is absolutely impossible! We already know about his father, Dylan Crawford’s status from back then. Like hell, their family’s that affluent! The most probable explanation is that Gerald won the lottery! He must’ve blown all that cash impulsively just now!” Rose said.It seemed as though the million dollars Gerald spent really left a huge impact on them.“Now that eldest aunt and the others are all gone, let’s go back to the shop and ask for a refund for this membership card. It’s way too expensive! So much money’s in there! Don’t you think it’s a waste to leave it all in there?” “There is no need for that, Bea…”“It’s a million bucks! How could you just brush it off like it’s nothing? Also, why…why do you have so much money?”Bea seemed a little terrified.Gerald laughed as he shot a glance at Bea who was behind the wheel. After that, he said, “I will tell you somethin