Seeing that Valeria was angry at Archer, Gavin immediately chimed in, “Valeria, it’s my fault. I wasn’t thinking clearly back then. Your father had no choice but to go with it!”
“You were in the wrong too, but he’s worse than you! It’s all his fault!”
As he heard her words, Archer lowered his head in guilt. Seeing that he did not refute her accusations, she didn’t continue.
She just picked up the menu angrily and began to order food. All the dishes she ordered were spicy because she was furious at the moment. However, she took into consideration that Gavin was old, so she ordered two dishes that suited his palate.
In truth, she didn’t have any appetite to eat, and she had just wanted to spend Archer’s money. After the dishes were served, she felt that her behavior was a little ridiculous and useless.
Archer had so much money, so he wouldn’t mind the money spent on this meal, right? She lowered her head and ate as Gavin kept putting food on her plate, with Archer following suit.
However, she deliberately pushed the food Archer had given aside, and he looked at Gavin with a bitter smile.
Gavin shook his head slightly, signaling for him to take it slow.
Valeria had no appetite at all. After finishing the dishes on her plate, she put down her chopsticks and said, “I’m full!”
“You’re full already?” Gavin looked at her in surprise as he remembered that she ate really well during their last meal together.
“I can’t eat anymore. I have things to do, so I’m going to go now!” She said as she stood up.
Both Gavin and Archer turned to look at her astonishingly. She knew that her behavior was very rude, but she didn’t have any energy to deal with them anymore, so she stiffly added, “Abbie is waiting for me. I promised to meet her.”
Gavin and Archer looked at each other and nodded with a smile. “Go ahead. I will invite you and Abbie over for dinner tonight.”
“Then I’ll leave first. Please enjoy yourselves.” With that, she left the room with a sigh of relief.
Looking at Archer’s dazed look, Gavin comforted him, “It’s already good enough that she decided to eat with us. Don’t think about rushing her. You should take it slow.”
“I know.” He sighed. After Valeria left, he didn’t have the mood to eat either.
Gavin knew that Archer longed to get along with Valeria, so he gave him some advice. “Valeria now listens to William the most. As long as you keep an eye on William, it will be fine. As for Abbie and Valeria, they are also best buddies. If you get closer to the people around her, then she won’t refuse to accept you anymore.”
Archer nodded his head as he was deep in thought. He finally understood why William had dared to challenge him. If it had not been for him, he and Gavin would not even have had a chance to have dinner with Valeria, right?
He urgently wanted his daughter to return to his family, so even if he didn’t like his son-in-law, he had to accept him.
As Archer thought about this, his cell phone rang. He glanced at the screen and frowned. Soon, he declined the call without thinking. Gavin looked at him in confusion and asked, “Who’s calling?”
“It’s Talitha.”
Talitha Anderson was Raelyn and Devon’s twin daughter. She was pretty and had a smart mouth, so Gavin liked her very much. Archer did not dislike his niece either, but he had no mood to answer the phone right now.
Seeing that Archer did not answer his phone, Talitha called Gavin instead. Gavin did not reject her call, and when the call got through, her clingy voice came from the other side. “Grandpa, I’m at B City with my friends, and I heard that you are here too, so I wanted to see you.”
“Where are you staying at?” He asked.
“Of course I’m staying at the Wolf Group. Grandpa, how about you?”
“I’m staying here too.”
“That’s great. I’ll come to see you right away.” She said and hung up the phone.
Archer stood up and said, “I’ll be leaving first!”
“Aren’t you going to see Talitha? She is quite lovable.” She was his granddaughter, after all, and Gavin liked her very much.
“No. I haven’t even settled my own matters, so I don’t have time to pay attention to other things.”
Gavin sighed as he watched him leave helplessly. As always, Archer still bore a grudge against Raelynn, so he naturally didn’t like Talitha that much. He hoped that Valeria would return to the family and cause some changes to their relationship as he was old and only had two children, so he obviously hoped that his children would be at peace with each other.
After Valeria left the room, the manager waiting outside respectfully led the way for her. He went to press the button of an exclusive elevator and said, “Miss Brown, please!”
“Thank you!” She entered, followed by the manager.
The hotel manager responsibly escorted her out of the hotel. In the parking lot to the east of the hotel, the door of a blue limited edition sports car opened. A tall pretty girl got out of the car.
The girl got out of the car carrying a limited Hermes bag while she strode through the corridor and into the hotel.
Seeing Valeria, who was accompanied by the manager, the girl raised her eyebrows and strode towards her with a mocking smile.
Valeria did not notice the girl because she was calling Abbie as she walked down the steps. “I’m outside. Where are you?”
“I’m at the parking lot in the east. Wait for me at the door. I’ll be right there.”
After Abbie hung up the phone, Valeria stopped right where she was and waited for her to drive over.
When the girl saw Valeria standing there, she passed by her and deliberately bumped into her shoulder.
Her bag felt like it weighed a ton and Valeria’s shoulder hurt a lot after the collision. She frowned and looked at the girl, whose face immediately carried an apologetic expression. “I’m sorry! Did I hit you?”
She had apologized politely, so Valeria didn’t want to make a big deal out of it. Even though her shoulder hurt, she didn’t want others to think that she would make a big fuss out of it, so she replied, “It’s okay!”
The girl apologized again before entering the hotel. As soon as she was inside, a cold smile appeared on her face as she picked up her phone and dialed, “Grandpa, I’ve arrived at the hotel. Which room are you in?”
Meanwhile, Abbie’s car arrived not long after and Valeria opened the door and got inside. Her shoulder was still aching, and when she fastened her seat belt, she frowned because of the pain. It was just a slight bump, but why was it so painful?
Seeing her frown, Abbie was confused. “What’s wrong?”
“Just now, a girl bumped into me. It was so painful. I don’t know what’s in that bag of hers, but I think my shoulder is swollen from it.”
“How did she look like? It shouldn’t be this painful if it’s only a girl…”
Abbie looked at her and asked again, “Does it hurt? Do you want to go to the hospital?”
“I don’t think that’s necessary. Maybe she had something in her bag. It will get better later.”
Seeing Valeria say this, Abbie did not take it to heart. Then, she started the car and changed the topic. “Valeria, I saw Talitha Anderson in the parking lot just now. I don’t know what she was doing in the car. Let me tell you, she is a cunning fox.”
“Who is Talitha Anderson?” Valeria asked.