The Secretly Rich Man

Chapter 1245

Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 1245 “…Is… Is that really true…?” asked Rita.

After hearing his explanation and seeing the sachet again, Rita had to admit that she was starting tobelieve him slightly. It also helped that she knew how Gerald was as a person, at least in the past.Regardless, he didn’t seem like the kind of person who would just forget someone he loved that much.

“I’m saying it now that I’ve never personally contacted you throughout these two years since I was tooashamed to stand before any of the Smiths. Why do you think I kept sending Zack over to help you?Even so, Zack’s told me that none of you have accepted any of my gifts. Is that true?” asked Geraldwho hadn’t really questioned their decision before.

“It is. The Smiths have their own dignity to maintain too, you know? Since Mila’s gone missing and bothof you aren’t even married, what right do we have to take your things? At least that’s what my grandmakeeps saying!” replied Rita now that Gerald had cleared up some initial misunderstandings that shehad with him.

With that, she had no problem with detailing how the Smith family was currently doing.

As it turned out, ever since Mila went missing, the Smiths had constantly been enshrouded ingloominess. For the longest time, the loss had been so suppressing that even breathing wassometimes difficult. The mocking and sneering from others only made the Smiths feel like they werecontinuing to drown even deeper.

The mockery itself had stemmed from the fact that the relatives and friends of the Smith family knewthat Mila’s boyfriend was an extremely capable and powerful man. After all, he had purchased them avilla that cost at least fifteen million dollars! A person capable of that must surely be immenselywealthy!

However, since Gerald’s identity was special, the Smiths had never publicly revealed that their futuregrandson-in-law was actually the rich heir from Mayberry, Mr. Crawford. Regardless, with so manygood things happening to the Smiths, it made many friends of the family both admire and envy them.Many of them even tried their best to fawn on the Smiths in their attempts to befriend Mila’s mysteriousboyfriend.novelbin

The second Mila disappeared, however, huge changes began taking place within the Smith family.

Since Serenity Jordain—who was the old lady of the Smith family and also Mila’s grandmother—was aperson with great pride and dignity, she quickly returned the villa that Gerald had given to them onceshe realized that her granddaughter wasn’t going to be found anytime soon. With that decision made,the Smiths then returned to where they initially lived.

Serenity even made it a point to reject any charity that Gerald attempted to give their family.

‘With my granddaughter now missing, what would the Smiths even be to Mr. Crawford? There’s noneed for us to continue fawning over him so shamelessly!’ That was pretty much Lady Smith’s thoughtprocess at the time.

Due to that, they returned to their original lives. Even if people enjoyed their misfortune, so be it.

“…I see. So all of you simply assumed that I had already given up on Mila this entire time, is thatright…?” asked Gerald as he took in a deep breath, hints of guilt in his voice.

Though he had been extremely focused on looking for Mila and his uncle, he had to admit that he hadignored Mila’s family. Realizing that now only intensified his guilt.

In response, Rita simply nodded.

“…Then, is Mr. Smith, grandma, and the others doing fine…? Please bring me along. I wish to meet upwith them,” said Gerald in a serious tone.

“There’s no way they could be fine… Today’s the birthday of one of grandma’s childhood friends, youknow? While that friend of hers ceased contact with grandma as soon as she heard about Mila’sdisappearance, recently she’s been constantly inviting all my family members over to her place!”

“It’s extremely evident—at least to those sensible enough—what Georgia Walford means by this. Yousee, since Mila already had you back then, my family had rejected Georgia’s grandson’s marriageproposal, and boy did they resent that fact. Regardless, Georgia’s family is quite amazing now, and hergrandson even ended up marrying a nice granddaughter. With that in mind, she’s clearly beenconstantly inviting us over just so that she could show off in front of my grandma. Truth be told, if Ihadn’t heard that Mountain Top Villa was going to be demolished, I’d have attended the party as well!”