Filed To Story: A Second Chance with My Billionaire Love
“Could the heartless girl have found true love this time?”
While Flossie was wondering that, she saw Leia stealthily opening the door and sneaking in. Her fair face was tinged with a faint blush, displaying a girlish shyness.
*Ahem*
Flossie cleared her throat and stopped Leia. She interrogated her like a dorm manager. “Where have you been? Why are you back so late? Don’t lie to me!”
After hesitating for a while, Leia told her, ‘Til be honest, I’ve fallen for this guy hard. Barring any accident, we’ll probably get married at the end of the month. If the time is right, maybe we can even have a group wedding!”
“Already? Isn’t it a bit too impulsive?”
Although Flossie was happy for Leia, she still felt a bit uneasy. “You’ve always said that you would never get married or have children. Why the sudden change of mind?”
“That’s because I haven’t met the right person! As long as the person is right, any rule can be broken, and there’s no obstacle too hard to overcome!”
Leia used to be a fangirl. Her biggest hobby was fangirling over celebrity couples. She had no interest in starting a relationship.
Who would have known that a single taste of relationship would spiral out of control like this?!
Flossie did not ask any further. She told Leia, “If you’re gonna get married soon, aren’t you gonna show me this guy and let me check him out?”
“Of course!”
Leia smiled sweetly and said, “I already told him that we’ll have dinner together tomorrow. You can help me take a look at him.”
“Okay.”
Flossie nodded.
“What did you do tonight? Did you go to dinner with the top donor?”
Leia eagerly asked Flossie.
“Yes, but not exactly.”
Flossie answered truthfully.
Leia’s eyes lit up. She asked, “How was it? Who’s the top donor? It’s Halston the Scumbag, isn’t it?”
“Yup, it’s him.”
Flossie did not feel any need to conceal it.
“Did your flame rekindle?… Oh no, I can tell with a single look that it did. It’s over for my poor brother. He’s getting dumped.”
Leia had already come up with a huge drama in her mind.
She had always felt that the relationship between Flossie and Halston would not end so soon. Her brother should not have stood between them like a fool. Him getting dumped was only a matter of time.
Flossie’s expression immediately turned serious, “Don’t joke about something like that. If the flame could rekindle, it would have rekindled a long time ago. It wouldn’t have remained dead for four years. We only settled some issues between us.”
“That’s good. A dead love is like a tumor that has been removed from the body. If you keep the tumor, it’ll only spread and cause you more pain.
Ending it cleanly is good…”
After Leia said that, she could not help but worry, “But there are two children between you. Can you really end it cleanly?”
The Guajardo Residence.
In the last four years while Flossie was gone, Old Mr. Guajardo’s health had deteriorated because he was worried sick.
Halston chose to move back to the Guajardo Residence to live with Old Mr. Guajardo so that it would be more convenient to take care of the elderly man.
Today, Halston returned later than usual. He thought the old man must be asleep already so he did not go to greet him and instead headed straight to the study for an extra shift
The study was big and dark, with rows of bookshelves.
Halston turned on the light expressionlessly, only to find Old Mr. Guajardo sitting on the sofa, causing him to step back in shock.
“Grandpa, why are you trying to scare people instead of sleeping?”
Old Mr. Guajardo’s face was stiff. While leaning on his cane, he scolded, “I’m trying to scare myself to death. I’m sick of worrying about my children and grandchildren every day. I’m better off dead!”
“There you go again…”
Halston rubbed his forehead and stabilized his emotions, then walked up to the old man and squatted to meet him in the eye. He patiently asked, “Did something happen today that make you unhappy?”
“It’s nothing, I’m lamenting my own uselessness, that’s all. My old eyes are so blurry that I can’t even see a person clearly now.”
The old man shook his head, sighing.
He thought back to the time when he followed General Ellsworth and fought against enemies on the battlefield. He used to be so brave and spirited.
But now, he couldn’t even walk steadily, or talk properly, or see clearly…
Old Mr. Guajardo suddenly took out his phone. His old fingers pressed the screen a few times before he said, ‘Oh no, my eyes are not that good. Halston, come and help Grandpa take a look. Who’s the woman in this video? Her skills are good.”
“Which one?”
Halston leaned over to take a look.
It turned out to be the viral video of Flossie.
He instantly understood what the old man was doing.
Therefore, he squinted slightly and feigned ignorance, saying, “Yeah, who is she? Probably a small time influencer. These are probably all scripted.
These people would do anything to be famous. Let’s not watch it anymore. It’s all fake.”
Halston tried to grab Old Mr. Guajardo’s phone, but the trembling old man suddenly became extremely lively. He warned, “You stinky brat, stop feigning ignorance. Open your eyes wide and take a good hard look at the woman in the video.”
“Okay, I’ll take a good hard look.”
After watching it again, Halston said without hesitation, “I remember now, this is the actress that Xavier’s company has been promoting in recent years. Her name’s Shirley White… Do you wanna see other photos of her?”
He did not want the old man to know that Flossie had returned to Beach City. Otherwise, considering the old man’s style of doing things, it would surely cause a storm in the city.
Besides, Shirley and Flossie looked kinda similar, so he should be able to bluff his way out of this.
“Nonsense!”
Old Mr. Guajardo was furious. He gave Halston a hard slap. “Do you really think I’m blind? This is my granddaughter-in-law, Flossie! How could you not tell me that she’s back? Do you really think I don’t go online?”
“Let me tell you, not only do I know that she’s back, I even watched her live stream! I even gave her a donation!”