Chapter 294 – Back Home to Marry Off Myself Novel

“December 18 is a good day. You can have your wedding here, and wait until you get back to make up a marriage certificate.”

As soon as Mrs. Leslie finished speaking, the entire booth fell silent.

If they remembered correctly, today was 15 and there were only three days until 18. To put it imprecisely, it was just two days.

This was too urgent, right?

“Grandma …”

Armand was just about to speak up when Mrs. Leslie interrupted him, “Don’t say anything. It’s settled.

You guys get the wedding done first, and then you can make up for it after you get back to City B.”

Boyce leaned in close to Mrs. Leslie and asked in a low voice, “Grandma, is this too much of a rush?

There’s a lot of stuff to prepare for a wedding. How can two days be enough? Besides, all our relatives and friends are in City B. Wouldn’t it be inappropriate to have the wedding here?”

Mrs. Leslie also leaned over and whispered in his ear, “I’m afraid that undue delay may bring trouble.

Because Phoebe is back. I’m afraid Armand will be sad and upset about that woman again.”

Armand had been dispirited and dejected for some time due to Phoebe Lewis. He could not recover from his break-up with her for quite a long while. Mrs. Leslie did not like women that would make her grandson sad and sorrowful. In order to avoid things change when Armand saw Phoebe when he returned, she decided to make them get married there before they returned.

Boyce’s expression changed at once. Now he finally understood why Mrs. Leslie was so stubborn in inquiring about Armand’s whereabouts, and would come all the way here amidst such a blizzard. It turned out Phoebe had returned and she was afraid that her grandson would be nice to her again.

Afraid that Boyce would inform Armand, Mrs. Leslie grasped his arm and threatened him, “Don’t tell Armand, or I’ll be angry.”

Boyce had pondered whether to tell Armand at first, after all, the woman whom he once adored had come back now. Yet he did not dare to say it now. If that old lady gets mad and does something, he would be in huge trouble. Now he regretted having asked her that. He wished he did not know that earlier. He would be guilty whether he said it or not.

“What are you guys chitchatting?” Armand came close to them. Boyce pushed him away. “Well, urm…

yeah, I’m thinking how much money should I give you as a wedding gift.” Boyce told a lie that he considered flawless after muttering for a long while.

Armand did not notice any aberrancy of his grandma being that anxious to ask him to get married at all.

He only felt that his grandma was being a little bit more anxious and she had used to urge him to get married sooner. “The more the merrier of course,” Armand said excitedly. He was certainly delighted to get money. “Sure.” Boyce was not stingy and he said, “I’ll give you lots.”

“Since your best friends are all here, and I think this hotel looks good, let’s settle then, your wedding would be held on the 18th.”

“Well, I…”

“It’s okay, it doesn’t matter whether it’s day or night.” Theresa wanted to say that she had not agreed to it and they should not settle the marriage that soon, but Armand snatched her hand. Afraid that Theresa would change her mind, Armand said, “Sure, 18th then, we could get the marriage certificate later.” The wedding of Armand and Theresa was then settled.

After lunch, Mrs. Leslie dragged Boyce along to look for the person in charge of the hotel to discuss about the venue for wedding. Loredana had been uneasy because of Cormac keeping a distance away from her on purpose. She did not express any personal opinion regarding Armand and Theresa’s marriage. Plus, since Armand had dragged Theresa away, she did not have time and chance to speak to Theresa too.

“Mommy, I can see you’re having a bad mood.” Samuel held her hands and asked, “Did you have a fight with him?” Cormac used to love clinging to Loredana. Yet not only he did not do so today, he did not even sit with her when they were having meals.

Loredana caressed her son’s head. She had thoughts in mind, and she was reluctant to confess to her son. Samuel was a very attentive child, if he had found out anything, he might begin to worry for her.

Yet it was obvious Cormac was behaving abnormally. Loredana then said, “It’s nothing, married couples always have fight.”

“Is that so? Please reconcile as soon as possible then,” Samuel said with care. Loredana smiled and agreed.

Samuel released her hand and went back to his own room when he reached his room. He was addicted to video games recently and he would play games on his bed whenever he was free. Cormac was with Simona and they were not in the room. Loredana went to look for them in another room but they were still not there. The room was empty and no one was seen.

As she took out her phone and was going to call Cormac, someone tugged at her sleeve. She looked down and saw Simona standing behind her with a smile. She put her phone back into her pocket, squatted and hugged her. Upon looking up, she saw Cormac standing somewhere not far from her.

Her arms which were holding her daughter slightly tightened.

Simona caressed her face and asked, “Mommy, who are you going to call just now?” Loredana thought for a while and said, “I wasn’t going to call someone, I was only taking my phone out to see the time.”

“Oh, where’s Samuel?” Simona blinked. “He’s in the room.”

“I want to play with him.” Simona skipped into the room to look for Samuel. She seemed to have found him and her excited voice was heard afterwards. “Samuel!” Loredana stood to her feet and seeing each other, they did not utter a word. Loredana only spoke after making considerations at length, “I…”

Cormac did not listen to her and he straightaway entered the room.

Loredana fell into silence. He carried his laptop and sat on the couch, dealing with the documents Abbott sent him. All those documents were actually not urgent, he was just waiting for Loredana’ explanation. It was not because of him lacking trust in her. He only enjoyed seeing her taking the initiative to talk and explain to him. If she was willing to take the initiative to explain to him, that meant she cared about him.

“I received Charles White’s call when I went out with Theresa. He asked me to go out with him. Since we’re friends, I agree. He told me about Lacey Ward’s stuff, and then Lacey’s brother came looking for him. They had some arguments and the time was delayed. He wanted to treat me lunch, but I rejected.

My coat was stuck in the gap between the seats when we came back and he helped me to take it out.

And that’s what you saw.”

Cormac did not show any fluctuation in emotion and he seemed to not hear her. Yet he was actually listening attentively to her. The reason he did not speak and pretended to be angry was to wait for Loredana coaxing him. Not knowing whether it was because of his thought influencing his action, he had actually typed “coax me” at the signature space.

Abbott was not able to respond at length when he saw that and he sent him a message with caution and fear. “How?” Cormac was startled when he saw his message. He initially wanted to criticize him for not being serious, yet when he noticed what he had done, he shuddered and quickly unsent the message.

Seeing him looking kind of busy, Loredana no longer bothered him and she said, “I have my own principle, I hope you could believe me. I’ll not bother you for now.” After finished, she turned around and walked away. “…” That’s it? Isn’t she gonna explain to him? Shouldn’t she kiss him, hug him, make him happy, ask him to believe her, ask him not to be mad and so on?

He still had not spoken anything, and he did not say he was not angry. How could she walk away like that? He put down his laptop and dashed out, yet Loredana had already gone downstairs through the lift and he missed her. Not knowing why, the lift next to it did not rise from downstairs after a long while and it did not respond after he pressed the button several times. He hurriedly used the stairs and ran downstairs. Yes, in order to catch up with Loredana, he ran without caring for his image. Loredana had already asked the chauffeur to drive the car away and she left the hotel when he reached the bottom.

Theresa was going to get married and Loredana wanted to specially design a wedding gown for her.

Time was running out and she needed to purchase equipment and accessories to make the gown. She had a whole piece of tea silk given by Kevin Forbis and coincidentally it was white. She wanted to make that silk as the main fabric and used other laces to adorn it.

She heard that there was a commodity city from the hotel staff and the city had everything. She wanted to have a look to see whether she could find the things she wanted. She already had a basic thought of how the wedding gown is going to look like in her mind, what she lacked now was the material. One could not make bricks without straw though.

The car stopped at the commodity city after a while and she got out of the car. The chauffeur also got out and he followed her inside. A lot of cars were parked at the entrance and the huge parking lot was packed with cars. The visitors all came to purchase goods and the passerby walking to and fro were carrying lots of things.

The chauffeur sighed. “The place doesn’t look big, but there’re still a lot of people.” Loredana nodded.

She thought that if such a small place could attract that many visitors, there must be something special about it. She sped up her walking. “Let’s go inside.”

There were really a lot of people. The good thing was that the entrance and exit were not set in the same location so it was not too crowded even though all were going in together.

The driver followed Loredana, afraid that things that were out of his control would happen.

He was a driver and also a bodyguard. Since he followed Loredana to come out, he certainly had to ensure her safety otherwise he could not report when he went back.

There were three floors here and each floor was vast. There were rows of stores and the door of each store was having a wide range of goods. Everything could be found there and even the things that one could not think of also could be found there.

Loredana was attracted by a toy store. Perhaps because she was the mother of two children so when she saw toys, she wanted to go in and see if there were any toys that her children liked.

Samuel liked toys that required brain works and he would not even look at toys like cards and stuffed toys like kitten and puppy. On the contrary, Simona liked furry toys.

Loredana was attracted by a polygonal Rubik’s cube. She took it with her hand and looked at it. There were nearly fifty modules on one side and each module’s size was as small as a nail. There were six sides in total.

Loredana turned a few times and felt very difficult.

“Normal people can’t play with this. If you’re buying for children, I suggest buying these,” the owner of the toy store came over to introduce. He pointed to the shelves with rows of various Rubik’s cubes that consisted of triangular and quadrangular or square type, “These are more suitable for children from five to ten years old, how old is your child?”

“Five years old.” Loredana still liked the one she was holding.

Those were not challenging enough for Samuel as they were too easy to be solved.

“This one is suitable.” The owner of the store took a triangular one that was a bit more novel than the square one. It was with fewer sides so it was relatively simple and suitable for a five-year-old child.

Loredana smiled and took out her wallet, “I want this one, help me to pack it.”

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