After all, he was a businessman and not a government official. How would he deal with Declan?
Cormac smiled and gave a riddle, “I don’t have connections, but my wife has.”
Oscar Adams’ cellphone number was saved into Cormac’s phone back when Loredana Flores received a phone call from Oscar. She told him to find Oscar if there were matters he couldn’t show up in. Actually, Loredana also didn’t know what kind of person her father was. However, she didn’t want to know either.
Just like what Jolene Harris said in the letter, it was enough to know that he was a good man.
Armand and Boyce looked at each other. They seemed to have read the answer from each other’s eyes.
They knew that this doesn’t only refer to Loredana, but to the power left from her parents’ generation.
Armand felt a little relieved after knowing that Cormac already had a counterplan. However, his hatred toward everything Declan had done had reached its peak.
He just wanted to curse at Declan whenever he thought of him.
Not only did Armand think like this, but he did it too, “What does Declan have? Doesn’t he just have a powerful dad? If he didn’t have his dad, he would be nothing! Whenever I see that smug look on his face, I get angry. I can’t wait to beat him to death.”
Boyce was still depressed. Looking at Armand’s childish behavior, he thought he looked very funny.
Cormac told them to go back, while Boyce had nowhere to go. And he had been very busy. Although he didn’t have to go to work now, he found he didn’t even have a place to stay.
Armand put his arm around his neck, “Will you go to the villa with me?”
Boyce said, “No.”
Armand was going after his wife, so what was Boyce going to do at his villa?
“All you think about all day is your woman. Can’t you do anything else? Since you’re so idle, aren’t you afraid you’ll become retarded?” Boyce complained to him mercilessly. Armand clicked his tongue, “I don’t make any less money than you do, so how am I idle? I just see it more clearly than you do.”
“How do you see it more clearly than I do?” Boyce asked.
“Tell me, why do we work?”
Boyce replied, “We work for a living, obviously.”
“And what do we need in life?” Armand asked again.
“Water, fire…”
“Pfft…” Armand nearly spat out the water he had just had. Then he glanced at Boyce in disgust, “I’d like to crack open your brain and see what’s inside. Water and fire are the necessities of life, but those things are not life. If a person wants to have a good life, he must have a successful career and have a partner who can be with him through thick and thin and never leave him. Although we have the former, we do not have the latter. It’s natural for me to go after the latter now.”
Boyce looked at him lightly, “I have nothing now, so as long as I’m alive, I’m fine.”
He stood up and walked out of the office after he said that.
Cormac had already left for a while. The two of them had been talking nonsense for half a day, and it was time to leave the office.
Armand chased after him, “How about this? I’ll give you a ride to college to find your girlfriend?”
Boyce got a headache from hearing him talk.
“Stop following me. I want to be alone.”
Armand followed him, “No way. I have to be with you. What if you get depressed and try to kill yourself? Just give me your time today. I’ll sacrifice my time to stay with you.”
“You’re the one who’s going to kill yourself!” Boyce walked to the other side in disgust and pulled away from him, but Armand approached him again, “What’s wrong with you? Why do you look like you are heartbroken? You look depressed.”
Boyce looked at him, said nothing, and stood at the curb to call a cab.
“Where are you going?” Armand sensed that something was wrong with him, “Didn’t Cormac have a plan? Why are you still so depressed?”
Boyce bowed his head, “Jasmine is gone.”
Armand was confused. She hadn’t even graduated from college yet. She was gone? Where could she go?
“I’m not sure.” Boyce said.
Armand was even more confused, “What could have happened to make her give up on her studies?”
Boyce told Armand about Jasmine’s mother. If he told Armand, he would feel better.
Armand looked at him cautiously, “So you’re upset because she’s gone?”
At that time, the car stopped. Boyce waved his hand, and the car quickly pulled over. And then Armand followed him in the car, “I asked you a question!”
“I don’t know.” Boyce replied impatiently.
He really didn’t know. He had felt something in his heart when he received her letter mentioning that she liked him.
He didn’t know if he liked her either.
Armand fell silent. And he finally knew why he was so depressed.
The cab driver asked them, “Where are you going?”
Armand looked at him and told the driver of a location.
He had heard from one of the lawyers at the law firm the other day that there was a blind date party at the east end of town today. It was said to be organized by some major dating website, and a lot of single girls would be there. And Boyce was just right to go to this blind date party.
The party seemed to be widely publicized. The cab driver even knew about it, “Are you guys single too?”
Armand pointed at Boyce, “He is.”
Boyce was not in the mood and ignored him.
The cab driver sneered, “This is the fifth time I’m driving to that party today.”
Armand was surprised, “So many people are going there? Are they men or women?”
“Both.” The cab driver said, “But there are still more guys. I heard that the male-to-female ratio is imbalanced at the moment. Even women who have been married twice are popular in the dating market. My cousin joined the army some years ago. He was a little older after he was discharged. After he had gone through many failed blind dates, he then got married to a woman who had been married three times.” Armand blinked, “Your cousin is ugly, isn’t he?”
There were a lot of girls who like military men these days.
The cab driver laughed, “You’re pretty straightforward. My cousin’s condition is really bad. If his family didn’t have connections, he wouldn’t be able to join the army. He is short and dark. And he’s old. He would be lucky to have a wife. I have a neighbor who has two sons in his family. Their parents spent a fortune buying a house and a car so that their sons could find wives for themselves. For crying out loud, the new car has become an old one, but they haven’t found wives yet. And since the eldest son does not get married, their parents don’t dare to find a wife for the second son. Because they are afraid that after the second son has a wife, the eldest son will be more difficult to find a wife.”
Armand couldn’t help but stare and look sideways at Boyce, “You better take this chance! Look! How many men can’t find a wife these days? You still don’t cherish your girlfriend. If you meet the right person this time, you should go out with that girl. Don’t become a leftover man.”
“Fuck off!” If it had not been for the fact that the driver was driving, he would have pushed the door open and gotten out.
Armand wasn’t mad either. He knew Boyce was in a bad mood, so he tried to cotton him up, “I’m just concerned about you, okay? Don’t be mad.”
New Book: Beginning with a Daring Encounter
Celsie was tired of being labeled as an introvert, workaholic, and dull virgin by her friends. Determined to prove them wrong, she made a bet that she would do something daring on her 25th birthday. Now that the day had arrived, it was time to fulfill her promise. On her daring to-do list, there was one task: a one-night stand with someone.