BXBX NOVEL Chapter 375 - COFFEE
Chapter 375 - COFFEE
Giana didn\'t come out of her room even until a week after her uncle, Lory, came to scold her, which didn\'t seem like it had much of an effect on her though, because Giana was still in the same mental state.
Until one morning, when she heard that Lory was coming back to her house, Giana got out of bed and hurried away before her uncle got home.
The maids and the people on guard tried to prevent Giana from leaving the house and driving the car alone, because it was an act that was not only dangerous for herself, but also for others, keeping Giana\'s unstable mental state in mind.
This wasn\'t? the first time Giana had been like this. When the divorce case of her and Aidan\'s divorce spread in the media for the first time and they blew up the affair between her and Dillon, Giana was in the same mental state.
It was just that, at that time, there was Dillon who always supported her or her parents who took care of the company.
But now, Giana didn\'t have Dillon to lean on, nor her parents to run the company.
And now, her father could no longer give instructions from behind his desk regarding what steps their company should take, because he was still unconscious due to Giana\'s actions that made his condition severe.
As for her mother, Giana couldn\'t ask any help from her mother because she chose to keep quiet and didn\'t bother with her at all. Her mother didn\'t even want to talk to her. Not at the moment or later. She refused to meet her after Giana locked her in the house and restricted her access to the outside world.
Therefore, Giana had to face everything alone and now she had reached a breaking point where she no longer cared about anything.
Thus, Giana drove her car out rashly, as if she wanted to leave everything behind.
Giana slammed the car\'s accelerator flat, violating several traffic rules. Her thoughts were a mess and now, the only thing that crossed her mind was that place…
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"Then what if I open a franchise restaurant?" Candice looked very annoyed at the person she was calling right now. To her, this was completely unreasonable and annoying.
"You spent half of your savings on a business plan that you didn\'t think through," Lexus said, he took a deep breath and massaged his throbbing temples.
Their relationship couldn\'t be said to have deteriorated, but to say it was getting better was rather confusing.
Lexus had told Candice his intention to have a serious relationship with the woman, but Candice still hadn\'t given a definite answer to his confession and preferred to let Lexus make his own assumptions.
This really frustrated Lexus, but on the other hand, he didn\'t want their relationship to be awkward.
"Let it be!" Candice grumbled. She snorted in annoyance. "I\'ll call you back later."
After saying that, she hung up on him even before hearing a response from Lexus, grumbling to herself.
Lexus shouldn\'t have scolded her like that. This was Candice\'s first attempt at business, so it was only natural that she was at a loss, right? Because she had no experience or whatsoever in this field.
Although actually, Candice had to admit that she had made a fatal mistake, which should have been avoided.
However, because Lexus scolded her too much she became a little annoyed and ended the call in that way.
"Ugh!" Candice growled in annoyance, but now that she had fought with Lexus, she wasn\'t feeling any better, on the contrary, she was feeling much worse.
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"Annoying woman! Difficult to understand!" Lexus grumbled, but it wasn\'t even two seconds since he complained about it, Hailee had thrown a pillow at him.
"If women suck, then why don\'t you just date David?" she asked sarcastically.
Lexus threw the pillow back at Hailee, but Ramon caught it before it even hit his wife. His sharp eyes warning Lexus not to do that.
Seeing how Lexus could be defeated so easily by her husband, Hailee laughed cheerfully.
Right now, the three of them were in Ramon\'s study. Since both of them had to go out of town for two days, they decided to discuss the project at home and leave at midnight.
"What is it? What happened?" Hailee asked curiously. As for Hailee, she had her own \'responsibilities\' related to her company, so she also tagged along, hoping the two of them could help her out if there was something she didn\'t understand.
But, apparently, after Lexus and Candice\'s call, Hailee was much more interested in hearing their stories.
"You don\'t need to know," Lexus replied irritably. "Aren\'t you going back to school?" Suddenly, Lexus changed the subject.
"It\'s still two months away, because I missed last semester," Hailee replied. "So how\'s everything between you and Candice?" Hailee asked, not wanting the topic to be sidetracked.
"You wouldn\'t understand how stubborn that girl is," Lexus said with a grunt.
"Oh, trust me, I totally understand." Then Hailee glanced at Ramon. "Now tell me what\'s wrong?"
Lexus then jumped out of his chair, left all the important files they were supposed to be discussing and joined Hailee to gossip.
Well, they had been in a tense and serious mood for four hours straight, so it wouldn\'t be harmful to say it was time to take a break.
On the other hand, Ramon couldn\'t say anything because Hailee and Lexus seemed unstoppable, they seemed to be facing burnout and needed a new atmosphere by talking about unimportant things.
Therefore, Ramon could only clean up the files that Lexus had left without being able to scold his younger brother.
"So this is it," Lexus began his story, where he told about how Candice chose to open a coffee-themed cafe because she liked it, but didn\'t tell Lexus about it. "She should have asked me for advice… Weren\'t I…" Lexus frowned for a moment, realizing that he was having a hard time putting himself in a relationship with Candice. "A male friend who is very close to her?"
Hailee laughed when she heard the term Lexus used. Very close male friend? What is that term?
"At least if she told me what her plan was..." Lexus complained, actually he was annoyed that Candice didn\'t involve him. "Does she not like me?" Lexus complained. "But, she responded when I kissed her, so I thought we…"
"You kissed her?!" Hailee shrieked and then sat up straight, staring at Lexus as if he was the only thing she had to pay attention to in this room. "How did you kiss her? You haven\'t told me this yet!"
"Well…" And Lexus started another story…
On the other hand, Ramon knew that he was isolated from this kind of topic, and that the two of them were in their own world right now, and he also realized that the conversation between the two would not be over any time soon…
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Candice kept staring at her phone impatiently, even when she fell asleep, she would wake up in the middle of the night and check back on her phone like an idiot, but that was what she did when she was expecting a call or just a text from Lexus.
But as it turned out, there wasn\'t any. Not even a single word from the man.
Indeed Candice said that she would contact Lexus, but that didn\'t mean he shouldn\'t contact her first, right?
Ugh! This sucks.
And that was how Candice\'s night went.
When morning came, Candice checked her phone again and found that there was no news from Lexus. She then decided that she had to find a way to apologize to the man, maybe her words were too harsh yesterday.
But…
Candice was too proud to apologize...
Sometimes, this prestige of hers could be so torturous…
Candice hit herself in the head as she faced her computer. She was now back behind her desk, but she had not finished a single task.
Not long after, Candice decided to call Lexus directly.
"I\'m at the airport," Lexus said. "I didn\'t tell you that I\'m going out of town today?"
Candice had completely forgotten about it.
"What is it?" Lexus said softly because Candice was silent.
"I want starbucks," Candice said instead of an apology.
"Okay," Lexus agreed easily. "I\'ll call you back once I get there, now I have to go. See you."
After the call, Candice hit her head in annoyance. "That\'s not what I wanted to say..." she grumbled.
Candice didn\'t want coffee or anything, she just wanted to make sure their relationship was okay.
And after struggling hard enough to get her focus back on her work, Candice finally forgot about the coffee incident until her coworkers told her that someone came looking for her.
"I\'m Randy Hamilton, you must be Candice Ashburn?" the man asked very politely, confirming Candice\'s identity.
"Yes? I don\'t think we\'ve met before," Candice said hesitantly.
"I\'m the lawyer for the Tordoff family," he said, revealing his identity in front of Candice. "I came here on orders from Lexus Tordoff."
Candice had no idea why Lexus had sent a lawyer to come see her, but since she was confused herself, Candice let the person explain.
"…Starbuck does not franchise individually, but there are several coffee franchises that you can choose from," Mr. Hamilton said at the end of his explanation.
"Huh?" Candice frowned, her eyes blinking in disbelief at this misunderstanding. "But I just want a cup of Starbucks coffee…"
How could Lexus have misunderstood her words to that extent? Seriously, Candice just wanted a cup of coffee, not a coffee franchise! It was too much…
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