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 own fate.

lit it. He nodded, “Whatever you do, as long as you stay

meal. I’ve got work to do. With that one line alone, I can tell that you’re still the old you, Let’s go out for

a different class of society than me, he’s

you can pick a timing. I’ll be sure to oblige.”

“I’ll call

you

Dylan chucked. He added as an afterthought, “Remember to give

eyes

would

Dylan. Anyone else would try to butter me up. At the very least, their be filled with fear and would be hesitant to act so casually around me.

Jessica entered the office in trepidation, worried that Alex would

greeted him

afternoon,” Alex returned the greeting. He felt like laughing when he saw Jessica’s

a stack of documents, “Will an hour be enough

was overjoyed that she had actual work

took the documents and nodded, “I’ll finish it in half an hour!”

ignored her, and she brought the documents

the world’s top five hundred firms, the boss‘ secretary was entitled to her own

sorted documents back into the

at the shelf.

she placed the documents down, she left as Alex had not assigned her

point, Alex’s phone rang.

It was Dylan.

to arrange

Dylan,” Alex replied.

sounded hesitant, and his

ask what was going on, he heard a cold voice holler, “Just

Dylan’s friend, right? He owes me two hundred grand. If you don’t pay up, I’ll chop both his hands

a murderous glint flashed across

close as brothers. Anyone who wanted to

I’ll bring the

address, Alex got up to leave.

get him a license plate. Thus, he did not

that, but he had ditched his electric scooter at