Jasmine lowered her head shyly. Although she was shy and didn’t tell them, but everyone knew that she was giving the tacit admission.
Dolores was the first one to talk, “Congrats.”
Theresa couldn’t respond in a short while, she congratulated them only after a long time. Dolores was already the mother of three children, and Jasmine had also become pregnant now.
Leaving only Armand and her who didn’t have child, she turned her head and looked at Armand, she wanted to know how he felt when knowing that Boyce had become a dad.
However, Armand just showed a calm face. Indeed, he was startled for a while when he just heard of it, to be exact, it was the ‘envy’.
‘Envying’ them, because he was the only one who couldn’t have child.
But soon he had realized that this was his life, there was nothing to be envied of. He would live together with Theresa forever if they didn’t have a child, some more there were so many people who didn’t want to have child nowadays, it was not a big deal if he didn’t have a child.
The most important thing was, he couldn’t let Theresa find out his emotion. He knew her sensitiveness so well, so he was more concerned about Theresa’s feelings.
He smiled so happily at this moment, he even joked, “Boyce is having double happiness today, he is promoted and he has a happy family, then there are now three people in his family already. He is winning in life, just for this, I want to congratulate him.”
When Armand was talking, he stood up and took a glass again, then he put it in front of Boyce and poured him the wine. Boyce had already had a glass, adding on Jasmine’s glass, now Armand had given him another glass again, so there were three glasses in total. Armand held his glass up, “One glass for me, three glasses for you.”
Boyce looked up, “Why is it one glass for you, but three glasses for me?”
Armand looked at him coldly, “Why, you are having double happiness, isn’t it that you shall drink three glasses? I’m wishing you sincerely, don’t you appreciate it?”
Boyce was speechless.
‘What a nonsense?’
Fine, he couldn’t surpass Armand in speaking, so he could only drink them.
Armand and Boyce touched their glasses, but Armand only took a sip while Boyce drank the whole glass. After the second touching of their glasses, Armand took a sip again while Boyce drank another glass of wine. After the third touching of their glasses, Armand finished drinking the remaining wine while Boyce finished drinking another glass of wine again.
After putting the glass down, Armand felt so happy, he immediately refilled the three glasses for Boyce, then he talked to Matthew and Dolores, “Today is the red-letter day of Boyce, you guys shall wish him too.”
Boyce glanced at the glasses in front of him, then he glared at Armand, “Don’t let me catch you.”
Armand laughed, “I think that you won’t have the chance, perhaps you can only prank me in the next life.”
“Be careful, extreme joy begets sorrow.”
“If there are many difficulties in life, then I must have experienced all of them already, the remaining in my life will be the happy days. As the saying goes, no pain, no gain. I had suffered so much already, and now the good things have finally come, I’ll live a happy life in the future.” Armand poured a glass of wine for himself, then he held the glass up and touched it with Theresa’s glass, “Let’s have a drink.”
Theresa glanced at him, the corners of her mouth curved up, then she gulped down the glass of wine.
Armand put the glass down and looked toward Dolores, “Dolores, quickly wish him, there is rarely an opportunity to force him to drink and he still can’t reject it. Or else, it will be difficult to get another chance again.”
Dolores smiled and said, “You’re right. Boyce is usually the most mature and steadiest one, his love has arrived late, but it has arrived at the right time. He has now harvested his love and career, he really worth the celebration.”
She held the glass up and looked at Boyce, “Congratulations.”
Boyce held his glass up helplessly, “Dolores, why do you…”
“Cut the crap, just drink, quickly drink.” Boyce pushed the bottom of his glass and forced the wine into his mouth.
This had made everyone burst into laughter.
The gathering had finished in a satisfactory way, but Boyce had drunk too much. Dolores had drunk with him, followed by Matthew, then Armand said again, “I feel that I want to show you that I’m wishing you sincerely, so I congratulate you again.”
Boyce was forced to drink another three glasses again, so he was drunk.
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