Buying My Forever Wife novel Chapter 396

Alaric pulled his hand back and grabbed Ivy's shoes to put them on for her.

Noticing he seemed a little disgruntled, Ivy smiled and asked,

"Do you want to come with me?"

"I'm not going."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah."

He was just too stubborn to admit he wanted to go.

Ivy didn't force the issue.

She assumed he was simply rejecting the offer because he didn't want anyone to know about their relationship.

Even though Hazel already knew, she still thought their relationship was an immoral affair, not a legitimate marriage.

Alaric personally drove Ivy to Metropolitan General before leaving.

Ivy grabbed Gemma, and after changing her clothes, the sisters took a cab to the restaurant Hazel had booked.

After several rounds of chemotherapy, Gemma's condition had stabilized significantly.

With Landon's expert treatment, they believed she would be fully recovered soon.

The sisters arrived at the restaurant.

A waiter led them to the private dining room. The moment the door opened, party poppers went off, and a shower of colorful confetti rained down on them.

Before Ivy could even process what was happening, Hazel stepped forward with a massive bouquet of flowers.

"Happy birthday, Ivy."

Looking at her sister's gesture and seeing the three Rhodes brothers standing in the room, Ivy was deeply moved.

Yesterday, Alaric had celebrated with her, and today, her sisters and the Rhodes brothers were doing the same.

How did she suddenly become so incredibly lucky?

Ivy took the flowers, her heart aching with the urge to cry.

Hazel pulled her inside. "Come sit, Ivy! Xavier got this cake for you. This gift is from Landon, and this one is from Tristan."

The three brothers stood in a row, each offering their birthday wishes and warm regards.

Naturally, most of their words were expressions of gratitude for how well she had taken care of Hazel growing up.

Ivy politely accepted everything, unable to turn them down.

Just as she sat down, donned a birthday crown, and prepared to light the candles to make a wish, a chillingly familiar voice drifted in from the doorway.

"I thought the people in here looked familiar. So this is where you're celebrating."

Everyone froze, turning their heads toward the door.

Hell must have frozen over. The notoriously arrogant and aloof CEO of the Foster empire was randomly crashing a lunch to give a girl a gift and joining their table?

Was he out of his mind?

He was acting entirely out of character.

Tristan rolled his eyes.

This guy was an absolute psycho.

They were here throwing Ivy a birthday party. What was an anti-social billionaire doing crashing their private event?

Hazel was the only one who thought she knew the truth.

She figured Mr. Foster was putting on an act. He was terrified people would find out he was a sugar daddy ruining someone's marriage, so he was pretending this was all a massive coincidence.

Whatever.

For the sake of the millions he had given her sister, she would turn a blind eye to it.

Gemma was the only innocent one.

She genuinely believed Mr. Foster was just walking by and decided to join them because he recognized everyone.

Seeing that no one was responding to her husband, Ivy let out an awkward laugh.

"Welcome, Mr. Foster. And thank you for the gift."