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Love at the Wrong Table (Emmanuel Lowe and Mackenzie) novel Chapter 43

Chapter 43

Upon receiving the loan, Emmanuel went to pick up

Alessandra in a taxi.

“Mom, why did you come to Uncle Benny’s house?”

Emmanuel asked Alessandra when she emerged from

Benny’s residential area.

“I–It’s nothing! I wanted to inform him of your marriage

and invite him over for a meal just to get to know each

other better,” Alessandra lied with a sheepish smile.

In spite of that, Emmanuel knew that she must have

asked Benny for a loan. Moreover, she was hiding the

fact that she was rejected in order for him not to

resent his uncle.

Emmanuel had no illusions as to what kind of person

Benny was. Despite the latter’s wealth, he had never

lent them a single penny. If that wasn’t bad enough,

Benny’s family, being cheap, would take whatever they

fancied every time they dropped by Emmanuel’s home

for a visit.

“Mom, Mackenzie has given me thirty thousand. I can

afford to pay for your treatment now,” Emmanuel

informed her once she got into the car.

“What? You borrowed another thirty thousand?”

The news shocked Alessandra.

Previously, Emmanuel had told her about the

sixty–thousand loan he had given to Frederick to pay for his mother’s medical fees. She didn’t blame him

since both of them were best friends. However, she didn’t want Emmanuel to lose his wife on the account

of his friend.

“Manny, does this mean that you didn’t give her any

betrothal gifts? Or even something to seal the

engagement with?”

“No, I didn’t.” Emmanuel shook his head with a wry

smile. “Mackenzie has plenty of money, so this is

something that isn’t important to her.”

“Are you silly?”

The exasperated Alessandra poked his head. “There’s

no girl in this world who doesn’t like presents. On top of

that, who marries without giving a betrothal gift? Even

if the girl is rich, you still have to gift her something to

seal the engagement!”

Emmanuel sighed in response. Not getting Mackenzie a gift wasn’t his intention. He just couldn’t afford it for the time being. If he ended up getting her something

cheap, he was worried that she would look down on

him because of that.

Just as Alessandra wanted to press her case, her

raging emotions caused her kidneys to hurt again.

Cold sweat broke out across her forehead as she held

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