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 bought at

he didn’t say anything. Now she knew he

mood suddenly brightened. She smiled, closed

came back from the meeting

eyes flashed with apology. “There was a

gentle smile and said tenderly, “It’s fine. I understand. I ordered some

“OK.”

desk. My grandpa’s birthday is next Saturday. Are

trip the next few days, and I

calling her, and

frowned, and his voice was a

was 16 years old, and then she has been feeling that my parents are biased. She had a

silence, Maxim said coldly, “I’ll tell

it, Kiley didn’t continue. She

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plan than she received a

birthday next

recently found a job. I may be very busy and may not have

more important than your grandpa’s birthday? I don’t care. You must show

was different now. A month ago, Desmond had told Zane that Maxim must show up at his birthday party so that others would be

about it. She figured that she indeed ought to tell them face to face that she

see. I’ll try to

hung up without saying

with Zane’s behavior and frowned. “You already asked Kiley to send Maxim the

not grown up with her since childhood, even though Briana looked

then, shortly after she gave birth to 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

finally decided to leave Briana at the gate of the welfare

and none of the Schneider family’s

a success, and Briana donated bone marrow to Kiley. In such a way,

friend’s words back that year would come back

that Briana had been adopted by a rural family in a remote area, she figured that Briana was nothing but a bumpkin who smelt like dirt. Whenever Briana stood next to Kiley, the daughter she had doted on for more than a decade,

went against her, and their conversation would always

couldn’t even hide the disgust in her eyes

glanced at her and coldly said, “Don’t forget that Briana is