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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