Son-In-Law Gets an Upgrade by Mr. Adeel

Chapter 25 Old Friend

“Mr. Jefferson, let’s have lunch together,” Jessica extended an invitation during lunch hours.

After cleaning for an entire morning, Jessica knew that Alex was trying to make life difficult for her.

Hence, she wanted to invite him for lunch to mend their relationship.

“No.” Alex refused her directly.

“I’ll be heading for lunch myself, then,” Jessica replied awkwardly.

“Alright,” Alex acknowledged without even looking up.

After Jessica left, he ordered takeout.

He just took over the company, and there were a lot of matters he had to take care of. Hence, Alex did not want to waste time leaving the office for lunch.

He had a habit of finishing the task at hand before moving on to anything else.

Half an hour later, the takeout had arrived. Alex allowed the deliveryman to enter when he heard the knocking.

“A–Alex?” the deliveryman stared at Alex in shock.

Alex looked up and exclaimed with surprise, “Dylan?”

He had not expected his deliveryman to be his university classmate, Dylan.

“Oh my gosh, Alex, I thought you were a live–in son–in–law? You’re the chairman here!” Dylan exclaimed in shock.

“Well, that’s life. You’ll never know when the smallest things might change your life, Haha.” Alex was happy to see his old friend as well.

Back when he was in university, he once invited Heather and her friend to have a meal at a restaurant only to realize that he had forgotten to bring money. If Dylan had not lent him the money back then, he would have been embarrassed.

Now that I think about it, I haven’t returned him the money yet.

“That’s right. Life really is full of ups and downs.”

Dylan placed Alex’s meal on the table and passed Alex a cigarette. He reminiseed, “Back when we graduated, I dreamed of a future where I’ll be able to do something big with my career. However, shortly after I got employed by a small company, it was shut down because of an economic downturn. Now, I’m reduced to being a deliveryman.”

mocked his

took a cigarette from him and lit it. He nodded, “Whatever you do, as long as you stay true to your beliefs, you’ll

alone, I can tell that you’re still the old you, Let’s go out for

is of a different class of society than me, he’s still the Alex from

a timing. I’ll be sure

“I’ll call

you

an afterthought, “Remember to give me a good

eyes

would

be filled with fear and would be hesitant to act

the office in trepidation, worried that Alex would tell her to do cleaning

greeted him timidly.

returned the greeting. He felt like laughing when he saw Jessica’s

“Will an hour be enough for you to sort

had actual work to

the documents and nodded, “I’ll

and she brought the documents to

one of the world’s top five hundred firms, the boss‘ secretary was entitled

brought the sorted

at the shelf.

as Alex had not assigned her

this point, Alex’s phone rang.

It was Dylan.

going to arrange a timing to go drinking

Alex replied.

can you…” Dylan sounded hesitant, and his

on, he heard a cold voice holler, “Just tell him outright that you need a loan! You must have

there was the sound of a man snatching the phone. The same voice yelled, “You’re Dylan’s friend, right? He owes me two hundred grand. If you don’t pay up, I’ll

glint flashed across

close as brothers. Anyone who wanted to chop his

me your address. I’ll bring the money

the address, Alex got up to leave.

when he left the office, he realized that he had gotten Jonathan to get him a

only that, but he had ditched his electric scooter at the showroom the previous day as well.