“I can’t compare myself to Josh. He’s the luckiest guy.”
Josh and Ms. Sox did not face obstacles in their relationship. The families of both sides were dying to hear wedding bells soon.
The Sox family had nothing on the Buchams when it came to the family fortune. Still, the Soxes were pretty well-to-do, if not rich. Besides, Jasmine’s aunt was Mrs. Lowe, so it elevated Jasmine’s social status to a certain point. Josh and Jasmine could be put in the same social class.
The pair were made for each other as they were nosy and craved gossip.
Callum had to hold himself back from asking Josh to dig into Camryn when his nana picked a blind wife for him. Callum did not want Josh involved in his love life.
It was not like Callum could do anything about it because Josh always found his way into everybody’s business.
After pushing his cousin out of the office, Zack took the flowers from Serena and relaxed his callous facial features into a smile. His face beamed as bright as the afternoon sun.
“What’s the occasion? The flowers are beautiful and smell good.”
He lowered his head for a whiff.
His joy and smile made Serena happy. Serena replied gleefully, “Oh, no reason. I just thought of giving them to you. Do you like the bouquet?”
Jasmine had a point.
Men needed to feel loved and appreciated too.
The flowers she gave him were not worth much money, but he was over the moon by the gift.
“I love it. I will love anything you give it, even if it’s a weed.”
“You’ll get your wish for a weed next then.”
Zack smiled. “Sure.”
Serena pulled Zack to sit down on the sofa before uttering with a grin, “Eat your food while it’s hot. I need to hurry back to the shop. Mr. Bucham is having dinner with Jasmine. I need to watch over the shop tonight.”
Hearing that Josh had a date with Jasmine tonight, Zack murmured something under his breath. Serena could not catch what he was saying.
“Did you get the flowers from Camryn’s shop?”
Putting down the bouquet and food container, Zack got up and walked into the private resting room.
He soon returned with a few exquisite-looking bags. He gave the bags to Serena and said, “I have gifts for you too, Seren.”
Serena took the fancy-looking bags from Zack and asked in glee, “What are these?”
Taking his seat on the sofa, Zack replied with a smile, “Well, why don’t you take a look inside?”
He removed the lid of the food container and dug into his wife’s specially-made dinner.
Serena took a look and responded with a grin, “Skincare products. You’re giving me a lot more than Elisa has bought me.”
The guy had been jealous. He did not like her using the skincare products given by Elisa and insisted that she should only use the ones he would give her. However, Zack had not given her any.
Taking it as a passing remark, Serena continued using Elisa’s skincare products. They worked well for her skin and were better than the products she used before anyway. Serena must admit that women should not skimp in terms of skincare.
“I’ll buy all the skincare products for you.”
Zack had no idea about the brands used by women as skincare products were not something he had ever bought for women before. He asked his mother in private and took a few of his mother’s suggestions.
He believed that his mother would recommend only the best since his mother had always been living a life of the privileged.
Serena was the apple of his eye, so she only deserved the best.
She smiled and uttered, “Alright. You can buy skincare products for me.”
“Seren, do you want to have some food together?”
“It’s okay. I only made enough for one person. I wanted to invite Callum when I saw him just now, but you wouldn’t have had enough if Callum stayed for dinner too. It was a good thing Callum left.”
*If Callum was here, he would argue that he was pushed out of there.
Acting like nothing ever happened, Zack remarked, “He knows better than to be a third wheel.”
Serena burst into laughter.
Feeling chirpy as Zack ate with gusto, Serena brought up her run-in with Carrie again during her visit. to Camryn’s shop. “Camryn is really blind. She’s not acting.
“She said she lost her sight following an illness. She was lucky to survive. Her aunt has been taking her to the hospital to examine her eyes, but no doctors could treat them.
“Ms. Carrie is a devil. I have never met a sister like her.”
Serena had a good relationship with her sister growing up, so it was hard to swallow when she witnessed Carrie’s treatment of Camryn.
The sisters were like enemies.
Carrie even said that Camryn was her personal amusement since she was not kicked out of the Newman family.
Zack nonchalantly remarked, “That’s her business. Callum should learn more about her and dig into her history. The best we can do is watch. We shouldn’t interfere.”
“But Callum isn’t doing anything though.”
Serena was anxious for something to happen and be done.
She suddenly felt herself in Grandma May’s shoes. Grandma May had a lot of grandsons, and every one of them was an elite in their own right. Nevertheless, her grandsons seemed to be out of luck when it came to love, and Grandma May was desperate to push them in the right direction.
“Nana gave them a year. Why should we feel anxious when they aren’t pressed for time? No matter the progress, Nana will get what she wants. There’s no stopping Nana once she sets her mind on something.” Zack had a pretty good understanding of his nana since the old lady raised him to be a successor to the family business.
“That’s true. We’ll just wait and see how everything turns out. I think things will be interesting for Callum and Kevin. It’s easy to catch on to Callum’s love story since he’s here. Kevin is too far away. By the time we catch wind of anything, Kevin would probably be bringing Mr. Queen home to meet the parents.
“Oh, I mean, Ms. Queen.” 1
Hayden’s disguise as a man left a deep impression on Serena. She looked so cool.
Besides, Hayden introduced herself as the heir of the Queens in Jensburg. Serena wondered how Grandma May saw through Hayden’s disguise.
“They are bound to come and beg us for help,” Zack predicted.
Serena chuckled sarcastically.
Zack was like a brick wall. What could he do if his cousins came to him for help? Zack was probably only good for taunts and horrible ideas.
“You don’t believe me, babe.”
“Not at all.”
Zack stared into her eyes and said, “We’ll just have to wait and see. They’ll come to me as the senior male figure in the family when they’re in trouble. Even if I can’t do anything to help, I can lend an ear.”
Since Zack’s cousins had the utmost respect and trust in Zack, Serena had confidence in Zack’s prediction.
“Did Ms. Carrie get into a disagreement with you?”
Serena mentioned running into Carrie and the feud between the sisters, but there was nothing further about what happened between Serena and Carrie.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.