Fall for You After Divorce by Callie

Chapter 7

Maxim’s eyes flashed with anticipation, and yet disappointment replaced the expression when he saw the caller ID flickering on the screen.

It was Kiley. The second he picked the phone up, he heard her voice with a smile. She said, “Maxim, my grandpa’s birthday is coming up, and my parents put me in charge of delivering invitations. Are you free later? I’m just passing by the Yoder Group, and I’ll drop you off the invitation. We can have lunch together. What do you say?”

Maxim said indifferently, “OK.”

“Alright. See you later.”

After putting down the phone, he wasn’t at ease at all. Instead, he was even more irritated and depressed. He couldn’t read the files in his hand at all.

To his surprise, Briana was so resolute this time and wouldn’t reach out to him whatsoever.

Suddenly, someone knocked on the door.

Rayan came in with a document and looked solemn. “Mr. Yoder, I just got the news that the land in the east of the city seems to be auctioned in advance!”

Maxim’s expression changed, and he immediately said, “Go tell the project manager and the shareholders that a meeting will be held in five minutes.”

When Kiley arrived, Maxim was still in the meeting. Rayan received her.

“Ms. Schneider, Mr. Yoder has just started a meeting. He asked me to take you to his office and wait for him.”

She smiled gently, “Thank you.”

Rayan led Kiley into Maxim’s office, told her to tell him if she needed anything, and then left.

After the door was closed, Kiley went to Maxim’s desk. She was about to put the gold-plated invitation on the desk when she saw a red box on it and paused for a moment.

It looked like a jewelry box. Considering that her birthday was coming up as well, she wondered whether this was Maxim’s birthday gift for her.

After a moment’s hesitation, Kiley picked up the box.

She thought, “It’s his gift for me anyway. I guess taking a look won’t matter.”

the box and saw the necklace Maxim had

he didn’t say anything. Now she knew he wanted to surprise

brightened. She smiled, closed the box,

came back from the

his eyes flashed with apology.

smile and said tenderly, “It’s fine. I understand. I ordered some food, and it should

“OK.”

My grandpa’s birthday is next

a business trip the next few days, and I may not be able to come back on

have you heard from my sister recently? I’ve been calling her, and all I’ve got

and his voice was a little cold. “What

16 years old, and then she has been feeling that my parents are biased. She had a fallout with them a while ago. It’s Grandpa’s birthday

a few seconds of silence, Maxim said coldly,

about it, Kiley didn’t continue. She changed the topic and

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the plan than

birthday next Saturday.

cold voice, “I recently found a job. I may be very busy and may not have

birthday? I don’t care. You must show up there next Saturday. You’d

month ago, Desmond had told Zane that Maxim must show up at his birthday party so that others would be intimidated and wouldn’t

that she indeed ought to tell them face to face that she and Maxim were going to get a divorce, as she wanted no extra trouble in

I’ll try to make time

up without saying

behavior and frowned. “You already asked Kiley to send

it hard to adore Briana, the daughter who had not grown up with

Briana and Kiley, a friend of the Schneider family whom the Schneider family trusted a lot suddenly came to the door, saying that keeping Briana around would ruin

a long time, the Schneider family finally decided

age of sixteen, and none of the

each other. The match was a success, and Briana donated bone marrow to Kiley. In such a way, Briana stayed with the

friend’s words back that year would come back to them, which always irritated them, so they had always

adopted by a rural family in a remote area, she figured that Briana was nothing but a

and their conversation would always end within a minute. Their

Mallory couldn’t even hide the disgust in her eyes whenever

and coldly said, “Don’t forget that Briana