Chapter 142 Lloyd Was Really an Unlucky Boy
Opposite the couch.
The dignified, graceful, and delicate woman was none other than Grace, Lloyd's mother.
Grace sighed and said embarrassingly, "Chasidah, Lloyd is really..."
Chasidah shook her head, held Grace's hand, and said gently, "I know you are very anxious about this matter. Lloyd is your son and you only have one son, so naturally, you can't bear to watch him waste time like that. Grace, I understand you."
Grace shook her head bitterly and said regretfully, "It would be great if that child was still alive..."
Chasidah lowered her head. Her slightly haggard face was pale as if she had just recovered from a serious illness.
She closed her eyes, "Anyway, whether others believe it or not, I believe that my daughter is still alive."
Lydia, sitting beside Chasidah, said, "Mom, actually..."
Chasidah looked at her.
"..." Lydia's words came to her lips, but she swallowed her words while thinking of her husband's previous advice.
Chasidah looked at Grace again, saying, "This so-called marriage contract, to put it bluntly, is a casual promise of the two kids' elders. Since Lloyd has asked me to cancel it, and he has been in love with someone else, I, as the elder, should of course give him my blessing. I agree to cancel the engagement."
Grace said, "Chasidah..."
Chasidah shook her head, "Forget it, Grace. We have delayed him for too long. I should have agreed to cancel the engagement a few months ago, but I was in bad health at that time. I was dizzy in the hospital bed, and I had no energy. When I was discharged from the hospital, I called you right away. Grace, that's it. It's destined that these two kids will not get married..."
Grace pursed her lips.
Chasidah smiled and asked, "Have you met the girl Lloyd loves?"
Grace was startled for a moment, then smiled bitterly, and shook her head, "I do business abroad all the year round, and I don't see Lloyd and his father a few times a year. If you didn't tell me, I didn't even know he had been in love with someone. Chasidah, what did Lloyd tell you?"
Chasidah thought for a while and replied, "He didn't go into too much detail. He just said he knew her from work. She's very interesting, so he wants to know her better."
Lydia suddenly said, "Did they know each other when they were in Amazing Tour?"
Hearing her words, Chasidah and Grace looked at her.
Grace asked, "Lydia, do you know what happened between them?"
Lydia immediately shook her head, "No."
But they must have known each other at that time.
Because that was the time when Lloyd met Ebony.
Thinking of this, Lydia felt that the world was impermanent.
In fact, since a few years ago, the Vasquez family had been wanting to cancel the engagement.
It was understandable for the family to have such a thought.
After all, Lloyd's parents couldn't really let their son wait his whole life for a girl he had never even met just because of the words of his elders.
In the past few years, the Gibson family had been discussing whether to cancel the marriage contract.
The men of the Gibson family were a bit domineering. They seemed to think that agreeing to cancel the engagement was the same as acquiescing that the little sister couldn't be found.
So they were stubbornly unwilling to agree.
But that was actually very unfair to the Vasquez family.
Especially to Lloyd.
Lydia was the daughter-in-law of the Gibson family, so her view was more objective.
She had always felt that Lloyd was innocent.
He didn't even have the right to choose, and he was suddenly asked to be forcibly tied to a girl that he didn't know whether she was beautiful or ugly and even alive or dead.
The Vasquez family and the Gibson family were close to each other. Lloyd didn't propose to cancel the marriage contract all these years for the sake of the friendship between the two families.
He liked Ebony so much that he called Chasidah and proposed to cancel the engagement.
But unfortunately, at that time, Chasidah took a bad turn and she was hospitalized, so she did not have time to respond to him.
Now that Chasidah was discharged from the hospital, she immediately invited Grace to discuss this matter.
Lydia didn't know what to say.
As soon as she thought that the engagement between Lloyd and the younger sister would be completely dissolved today, she didn't know whether to congratulate Lloyd or sympathize with him.
Lydia thought Lloyd was really an unlucky boy.
Grace didn't stay in the Gibson family's house for long.
After Grace left, Lydia hesitated for a while, but finally said to Chasidah, "Mom, actually... Mom, what's wrong with you?"
Before finishing speaking, she saw Chasidah clutching her own chest all of a sudden.
Chasidah fell down on the couch with a look of pain.
Lydia realized that Chasidah she was having a sudden attack, so she quickly called the family doctor.
With the first aid of the family doctor, Chasidah recovered and was sent to her room to rest.
Lydia looked at the sleepy Chasidah on the bed, gritted her teeth, but finally didn't dare to talk any more.
Chasidah really couldn't get stimulated at all.
Lydia planned to wait for Chasidah's health to stabilize a little more before she told her about the younger sister.
The next day, Ebony ran to the opposite room as soon as she finished having breakfast.
She first knocked on Elvin's door, and then knocked on Lloyd's.
Lloyd was on the phone when he opened the door.
When seeing Ebony, he didn't say anything.
While walking into the room, he said to the phone, "Well, I just had breakfast."
Ebony didn't follow up and just stood at the door to wait for him.
She was going to take Elvin to visit the TV station and Elvin said that he wanted to watch her teach dancing, so she stopped by and asked Lloyd if he wanted to go with them.
Ebony thought if Lloyd went together, she would be able to coax him to invite her to have lunch.
"Aunt Kelly?" Lloyd frowned as he heard what his mother said.
He subconsciously glanced at Ebony who was outside the door.
Then he said to his mother, "Let's talk about this later."
"No need to talk about it later." Grace said in a good mood, "Your Aunt Kelly has already agreed. The engagement between the youngest daughter of the Gibson family and you has been officially canceled. How about it? Son, is that good news?"
Lloyd, "..."
Lloyd was silent for a while. He thought he had heard it wrong.
So he asked, "What?"
Grace smiled and said, "Is it such a surprise for you? Didn't you tell your Aunt Kelly specifically? Your Aunt Kelly has been discharged from the hospital. She saw me today and told me about it. This is a good thing. You are free now, and you will have nothing to do with the little daughter of the Gibson family anymore. Lloyd, congratulations."
Lloyd, "..."
When hanging up the phone, Lloyd was in a trance as his face was gloomy.
Thinking that Ebony was still at the door, he went out.
However, Ebony was not at the door of his room, but stood at the door of Elvin's room, the dried red dates used by Elvin to make red date tea.
"Stop eating it!"
Elvin snatched back his red dates.
Seeing Lloyd coming out, Elvin asked casually, "Are you going to the TV station with us?"
Lloyd pursed his lips and gave Ebony a deep look.
But Ebony didn't look at him. She was still licking her lips and staring at the bag of red dates in Elvin's hand without blinking.
Lloyd, "..."
Lloyd sighed, and finally responded lightly, "Yes."
After that, the three of them set off together.
In the elevator.
Elvin, holding his thermos cup, saw that Lloyd looked in a bad mood and asked, "What's wrong with you? Didn't you have a good rest last night?"
Lloyd didn't make a sound, just looked at the direction of Ebony, and rubbed his eyebrows as if he had been bullied by her.
Upon seeing this, Elvin scolded Ebony, "Did you provoke him again? Ebony! Can you stop bullying Lloyd?"
Ebony, "..."
She was really stunned.
She looked at Elvin incredulously with her mouth wide open, and then looked at Lloyd.
Finally, she asked loudly, "Who bullied him? Why do you blame me? Look at his expression! He is looking like he has lost his love and doesn't want to live! This has nothing to do with me! I haven't talked to him yet today, OK?"