Filed to story: The Regretful Billionaire: An Unpredicted Reunion
Hence, when he saw them coming, he greeted them with a smile.
“Danika,”
David greeted as he walked up to her, looking very happy.
Danika called out to her uncle and then introduced Eustace and Old Mr.Quincey to him.
Faced with two big shots, David was a little nervous as he quickly led them into the house.
“Well, as you can see, this is how the countryside is.I hope you don’t mind,” David said, feeling a little sheepish.
As a member of Danika’s family, he was afraid to embarrass her, so he was very cautious.
Eustace could tell David was anxious, so he took the initiative to say, “Uncle David, Danika is my fianc茅e.You can just call me Eustace.We will be a family in the future.”
Although Felicity had deliberately tried to seduce him before, it was already in the past.
Moreover, David didn’t seem to have any bad intentions, so Eustace didn’t mind having him as a relative.
David didn’t expect Eustace to be so easygoing, so he smiled and said, “Yes, yes, we’ll be family in the future.”
Married?
In the living room, Hannah stood up immediately and greeted the three people who came in warmly.
Danika felt that something was off with her.She remembered clearly that her aunt had never liked her and didn’t even treat her with the minimal amount of decency the last time she came.
Why was she so enthusiastic now? “Danika, you finally came.I just told your uncle that we should go to the village entrance to welcome you.”
Hannah smiled and pulled Danika over to sit on a chair.
Danika was confused but didn’t refuse.She didn’t want to argue with Hannah this time.
As long as her aunt didn’t cause trouble, she wouldn’t be disrespectful.
“Let’s eat first,” David said and glared at Hannah, asking her to bring out the food from the kitchen.
Hannah didn’t refuse.
Danika and the others were seated while she went to the kitchen to take out the food.
In the living room, with Hannah gone, David cut to the chase and asked, “Danika, you called me yesterday and said that you were coming back because you want to tell me about you and Mr.Quincey getting married?”
“Yes, the wedding is in three months.You and Aunt Hannah are invited to come.I came back to tell Grandpa this good news, so he can rest in peace in heaven.” David nodded.
“This is a big event, and you should inform your grandpa about it.”
Even if Horace was no longer with them, he felt that Danika should still visit his grave and tell him about it personally.
“As for me and Hannah…I think we won’t attend your wedding.”
David felt a little embarrassed.
“We’ve never been to a place like Bardoff City; if we go, we’ll just embarrass you.Besides, he wasn’t Danika’s biological uncle.With Danika’s birth parents there, what was he? He felt he wasn’t entitled to be there for Danika’s big day, as he didn’t have a legitimate reason.
Danika didn’t care about it and insisted, “Uncle David, both me and Eustace don’t care about things like these.You’ve watched me grow up and shown me care.I hope that you can come to my wedding.”
“Um…”
David hesitated; he’d never been to Bardoff City before.
Seeing this, Eustace chimed in, “Don’t worry, Uncle David.I’ll ask someone to pick you upJust think of it as a short trip.”
They both extended their invitations warmly, so David felt he was being too petty if he continued to refuse them.He smiled and nodded.
“Okay, I’ll go.I’ll feel more at ease if I’m able to see you off personally, Danika.”
Danika smiled and looked around.
Then, she asked, “Where’s Felicity?”
Danika had never had a good impression of this cousin of hers, but since she was David’s daughter, she wouldn’t really do anything to her.
Before this, Felicity had been made to spend some time in the police lockup to learn her lesson.She was then released a few days later.
Hence, she should have been at home.
Hearing her ask about Felicity, David didn’t know how to respond.
Just then, Hannah came out of the kitchen and, upon hearing Danika’s question, responded rudely, “Felicity has already gotten married.”
“Married?”
Danika couldn’t believe it.
Felicity didn’t seem like the type to settle down, and Danika hadn’t heard from David about it either.
David felt embarrassed and even found it difficult to talk about his daughter.
“Felicity got pregnant secretly with the man, and I couldn’t stop her.I could only let her marry him and move in with him.There wasn’t even a wedding, and she moved in with him on her own.”
Danika didn’t know what to say.
This was indeed something that Felicity was capable of doing.She wasn’t interested in Felicity’s whereabouts; she just felt a little sorry for David.She could guess how ugly things must have been between him and her daughter at that time.
Mooching Rights
“Let’s eat first and talk later,”
Hannah suggested.She’d wanted to talk to Danika about Felicity’s situation.But then, Danika didn’t know what she was thinking.
Seeing that she seemed reluctant to talk about it, Danika didn’t ask too much and just comforted David and asked him to take it easy.
After lunch at David’s house, they first went to pay respects to Danika’s grandfather.
David and Hannah didn’t follow, saying they would stay home to prepare dinner.
At the graveyard, Danika cleared Horace’s grave of the weeds surrounding it and laid down some fresh flowers.
Then, she introduced Eustace to him.
“Grandpa, I know you must have been watching me from heaven all these years, and now I’ve brought someone over.Don’t worry—he’ll take good care of me from now on.”
“Hello, Grandpa, I’m Eustace, and I’ll take care of Danika from now on.You can rest assured,” Eustace also spoke up.
Danika talked to her grandfather’s tombstone for a while more before they left.
The air in Orchid Village was fresh, and Old Mr.Quincey liked it very much there.
After leaving the graveyard, he didn’t go back with Danika and Eustace but had Warren push him around so that he could take a look around.
He couldn’t remember how long it had been since he last came out, so he didn’t want to miss this opportunity.
Danika and Eustace didn’t dissuade him and understood that it was good for him to see more in his current situation.
They returned to David’s house, but they hadn’t even entered yet when they heard an argument taking place inside.
“David, are you even human? Felicity is your daughter! Are you going to watch her suffer for the rest of her life?”
There came Hannah’s voice.
David didn’t speak but just kept smoking.
“Danika is so rich.What’s it to her if she gives us a little money? Worse comes to worst, we can borrow from her, and when we have money, we can pay her back,”
Hannah continued.
David sighed and finally spoke, “Danika doesn’t owe us anything.Why should she lend us money?”
Moreover, even if they said they were borrowing the money from her, how would they repay her? In actuality, they would be taking her money and giving her nothing in return.
“You’re her uncle.Can’t she lend you a little money?”
Hannah felt that David was hopeless.
If it were someone else, Hannah would have attached herself to them and leeched off their riches.But look at them now.
They were still staying in this rundown village and hadn’t managed to get anything from Danika.
Hannah felt they had every right to mooch off a rich relative like Danika.
David was frustrated and felt that his wife was beyond reason.
“Danika is rich, but it’s not like she didn’t have to work for it.I won’t ask her for money! As for Felicity, I’ll figure something out.”
Unfortunately, his words didn’t calm Hannah down.
On the contrary, she went over and hit him twice in anger while scolding, “You’ll figure something out? What can you think of? You work in the field all day and only manage to live from hand to mouth.Listen carefully, you have to borrow money from them, or we won’t be able to get by!”