“Huh? What are you going to say to her?” Aurelia sat up straight when she heard Callum wanted to talk to Cathy.
The man laughed, “Sweetie, I’m just here to help you with this matter. Don’t worry. I won’t say anything that shouldn’t be said.”
Callum’s tone was full of teasing, and Aurelia quickly explained, “No… I’m just curious. You’re overthinking it. I’ll give her the phone right now!”
Cathy bit her finger in fear when she heard that she was really asked to answer the phone. She whispered to Aurelia, “Mr. Finnegan… He wants to talk to me?”
Aurelia blinked and nodded seriously. “Yeah.”
Cathy quickly put down the phone in her hand, and rubbed her hand on her clothes before taking Aurelia’s phone. Finally, she put the phone to her ear and said politely, “Hello, Mr. Finnegan!”
Aurelia was speechless upon seeing Cathy’s reaction.
Callum said something over there, and Cathy quickly refused, “No, Mr. Finnegan, Aurelia and I were just joking. You already gave me the VIP card last time. Please don’t take this joke seriously!”
In order to prove that what she said was true, Cathy’s tone sounded sincere.
Callum then said something else and Cathy could only nod. “Okay… Thank you, Mr. Finnegan.”
The phone was back in Aurelia’s hands, and she looked at the call that hadn’t been hung up yet. “Callum, what did you say to her?”
“Nothing. I’ll have my assistant pick you up at noon and we’ll have lunch together.”
After the call, Cathy couldn’t wait to say, “Aurelia, I find your husband is more serious than you.”
“What do you mean?”
Cathy told Aurelia everything Callum had told her.
Callum told her that this was not a joke, but a matter of keeping one’s word. Since Aurelia had lost the bet, she would definitely feel uncomfortable if she couldnt’ fulfill her promise to Cathy. So, he had asked his assistant to put money on her card on the fifth floor of Alioth, enough for her to eat for a month.
Aurelia was stunned.
She found that as long as the problem could be solved with money, Callum would never choose other ways to solve it.
The person who came to pick her up at noon was Suzanne, who took Aurelia directly to the company, and then Callum took Aurelia to the restaurant.
As soon as they finished ordering, Aurelia couldn’t wait to ask, “Callum, what does your mother like? What does she like to eat? What are her hobbies? Is there anything I need to pay attention to…”
Before she could finish her question, Callum took her hand.
She looked at him in confusion, and Callum patted her hand in comfort. “Don’t panic. You’ll get used to it. She’s a very nice person. Don’t be too nervous. I’m sure she will like you very much!”
Aurelia was skeptical. “Really? Are you sure?” She had heard too many problems with mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationships before.
“Sure!” Rachel said very early on that when he got married in the future, he must marry a lively and cheerful girl. She hoped to have a lively girl as her daughter-in-law.
Aurelia was relieved. “Okay then. When will your mom be here?”
Callum opened the warm wet towel, gave her a sidelong glance, and corrected her. “She’ll be here in two days. And call her Rachel.”
“Oh! Okay!”
Aurelia’s mind was still full of her meeting with her mother-in-law, and even when Callum asked her questions, she answered a little absent-mindedly.
“Where did you get the money to buy me a ring?” He would receive text messages for every purchase, big or small, on the card he gave her, but recently there had been no notification of her spending money.
It was not that he was spying on her. It was just a built-in function of the bank card.
“I earned it!” Aurelia didn’t know what Rachel looked like, but looking at Callum, she could guess that Rachel must also be good-looking.
“How do you earn it?”
“Singing!” So when Rachel came, should she hang out with Rachel?
“Where are you singing?”
“Bar… Ah, what did you ask me just now?” Aurelia accidentally caught a glimpse of the man’s unhappy eyes, and instantly came back to her senses, trying to think about what he had just asked and what she had answered.
Her hand was tightly held by the man, and Callum asked in a deep voice, “Who allowed you to go to the bar to sing? Didn’t I give you the bank card? Did you drink?”
There was a little pain in her hand, but Aurelia, who felt his anger, did not dare to escape his grip. “I won’t go there anymore. You did give me money, but what’s the point of using your money to buy you a ring? Plus, I swear I didn’t drink.”
The girl said the last part, looking at him ingratiatingly.
After hearing her say she would not go there anymore and that she did not drink, Callum looked better. “Did your voice get hoarse last time from singing?”
Knowing she couldn’t lie, Aurelia nodded truthfully. “I haven’t sung for a long time, and I sang for too long that day, so my voice accidentally became hoarse! But it was all healed the next morning!”
He did know that Aurelia’s throat had healed the next morning, and he had asked someone to prepare the medicine for her, but he didn’t give her the medicine. It was just… “How did you recover so fast?”
“It just gets better automatically. My voice became hoarse because I wasn’t paying attention when singing, but later my throat seemed to have gotten used to it, and it gets better automatically every time!”
At this moment, the silly smile on the girl’s face deeply touched the man’s heart.
He grabbed her hand and put it to his lips. “Silly, don’t do this again! If you want to buy something for me, just use the card I gave you. I’ve already given you the card, so it’s your money, understand?”
“Thank you, Callum, but I’m already twenty-one, I can definitely make my own money.” She carefully defended herself as his kiss fell on her fingers, and it was itchy. She couldn’t help but smile and narrowed her eyes.
“It’s not impossible for you to work. After you graduate, you can do whatever you want, but your studies are the most important thing now, Aurelia. I ask you to study hard now so that you can be better in the future, okay?” Although she was already very good in his heart, as a woman, she would not only face him in the future, but also many more people. It would be best if she could do better.
She nodded. She could sense his good intentions. Moreover, many people had told her that she had changed recently and said that she had become more elegant and outstanding.
All this was really thanks to Callum.
All girls wanted to make themselves better. Aurelia wanted to do it before, but she didn’t have the conditions, nor did she know what to do. Moreover, she was used to being a tomboy. It was impossible to learn these things without someone forcing her.