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Anastasia’s heart sank upon hearing that. She couldn’t even imagine the state of Harriet’s situation back then. The latter was a fifty-year-old woman trying to cope with the sudden loss of her son and daughter-in-law, and she had to step up to manage a multi-million company single-handedly. Furthermore, she had to raise a young grandson and back then, Elliot was her only hope.
Right now, Elliot had grown up to become an independent man and he ran the company well, so she could finally relax and enjoy a life of retirement.
“Your mother’s a great woman and though I’ve never spoken to her before, she has a mighty and heroic presence in my heart.”
Anastasia was also quite young-barely two years old-back then, so her impression of her mother was just the exceptionally heroic-looking woman in the photos. At that time, her father had just started up his business, so Anastasia was raised by her maternal grandmother. Two years later, her father had remarried and that was when Naomi joined their family. Naomi had brought along a daughter with her. After Anastasia’s grandmother had passed away due to illness, her father finally brought Anastasia back home to care for her.
At that point, Harriet quickly halted the current topic as she didn’t want to bring up Anastasia’s painful past, so she smiled and asked, “Anastasia, why don’t you make a guess as to who’s the other person joining us for lunch?”
In fact, Anastasia was quite confident that it was Nigel joining them for lunch, but she could only act confused. “Did you invite another person to join us?”
“It’s Nigel. I asked the two of you out for lunch with me to have a proper discussion. It was totally beyond my expectation that you were the little girl who saved Nigel back then. It must be fate!”
Anastasia curled up her lips and revealed a smile. “I didn’t expect that he was your grandson either.”
Harriet requested for Anastasia to explain the process of how she saved Nigel in detail, so Anastasia acceded to the former’s request and thoroughly spoke about the ordeal. Anastasia also shared with Harriet some of her experiences with Nigel when they were overseas. Meanwhile, Harriet listened on and concluded in her mind that it was proof of Anastasia and Nigel’s affectionate relationship.
As such, the elderly woman was very intent on bringing the couple together. Once
Anastasia was part of the Manson Family, then Harriet could naturally continue to provide support and compensation for Anastasia in every aspect.
At the moment, a gray-colored sports car was also heading in the direction of the restaurant. Nigel had received Harriet’s phone call the previous night and she had instructed him to dress up well for lunch today, as Anastasia would be in attendance too.
As a result, Nigel had woken up early to go to the barber’s, and he had gotten a stylish haircut for today’s lunch date. His originally quite good-looking face was much more handsome and full of vigor than ever after all the grooming.
Presently, Nigel had arrived at the restaurant and remained in his car. Taking a look at himself in the mirror, he cheered for himself. “Nigel Manson, you must win Anastasia’s heart today and get her to agree to your proposal. Good luck!”
He then pushed open the car door and got out of the car to enter the restaurant. Subsequently, the waiter greeted him and escorted him to the direction of the private room as he waited there.
Meanwhile, Harriet and Anastasia arrived at 11.50 AM. Throughout their journey, the latter was preoccupied with her thoughts as she tried to figure out how to explain the matter of the proposal to Harriet, so that Harriet could give up on the thought of making arrangements for their marriage.
As soon as they entered the private room, Nigel instantly stood up to greet them and he lovingly addressed Harriet, “Grandma, you’re here!”
After he had said that, he directed his affectionate almond-shaped eyes toward Anastasia. “Anastasia!”
Meanwhile, Anastasia greeted him with a smile. “You’re quite early today.”
“I wouldn’t dare to be late for lunch with you,” Nigel responded wittily.
Upon hearing that, Anastasia couldn’t contain herself and she laughed upon hearing his words. Harriet watched their interaction and she was secretly quite pleased. They are indeed a perfect match for each other. They look so compatible!
“What happened to your finger? Let me have a look at it.” Nigel had noticed it almost instantly so he quickly reached out to hold her hand and check on her wound.
In response, Anastasia hastily withdrew her hand. “I’m fine. I accidentally cut myself while I was cutting some vegetables.”
“That’s so careless of you. You should avoid cooking from now on. I’ll treat you to your meals.”
“No, Jared’s not used to eating out.”
“Come on and take a seat. Let’s order our food.” Harriet sat at the head of the table and the manager of the restaurant came in personally to take their order. At the same time, he introduced to them the restaurant’s specialties. Anastasia sat there and listened to him introduce their fresh and imported, luxurious ingredients, which were all air-flown to the restaurant, and she realized by listening to the way the ingredients were obtained that this was clearly not a restaurant that could be afforded by the general population.
“Serve us one of each, then!” Harriet announced with a swagger.
At that moment, Harriet suddenly recalled that there was another person joining them, so she quickly responded, “There will be four of us today.”
Instantly, Anastasia and Nigel exchanged looks with each other. Is there a mysterious guest? Who is it? Harriet, however, was busy chatting with the manager, so they didn’t interrupt the conversation.
All of a sudden, a waiter pushed open the door from the outside and a strapping, tall figure walked into the room. He had his suit jacket in his hand, and he was dressed in a white dress shirt paired with black trousers. In short, his attire was minimalistic yet full of elegance.
Anastasia’s beautiful eyes widened upon seeing the man, and she was quite stunned to find that he was here too.
The person who walked into the room was in fact Elliot-the man who had shamelessly mentioned he wanted to join the lunch date the night before.
At the same time, Nigel narrowed his almond-shaped eyes too. Why did Grandma invite him along? He’s just going to ruin everything!
“Elliot, how come you’re here too? Don’t you have any lunch conferences to attend?” Nigel lifted his brows and asked questioningly.
Elliot pulled out a chair and purposely took a seat next to Anastasia before he responded with a smile, “Well, I wasn’t invited to any lunch conferences, so I had no choice but to barge in and join your lunch date too.”
“Pfft! I’m sure there are plenty of people keen to give you a treat.” Nigel didn’t believe a single word that Elliot said. Furthermore, Nigel was quite sure that his cousin must have purposely turned up to mess things up.
Meanwhile, Harriet smiled upon seeing both of her grandsons in attendance. “Elliot mentioned to me last night that he didn’t have any lunch plans for today, so I invited him along.”
At that moment, Anastasia turned her head to glance at the man in question, and she noticed that his handsome face had stiffened slightly. Elliot clearly didn’t expect that Harriet would expose his lie.
In the end, he took his cup of tea into his hand and took a sip from it. At the same time, he peered across from the edge of his teacup, and his dark gaze went toward the woman next to him.
As for Anastasia, she purposely turned in the other direction as soon as she sensed his eyes on her.
“Anastasia, I’m sure that there’s no need to introduce this person to you, right? He’s my grandson, Elliot Presgrave. You guys must have encountered each other at the office, I believe?” Harriet asked with a smile.
Meanwhile, Anastasia had a slightly abashed look on her face as she spoke up guiltily. “Yes, we’ve met.” Not only have we met, but we’ve also even kissed more than once! It was mainly because of Elliot’s shameless personality, and that he had forcefully kissed her each time.
At that moment, Nigel reached out to hold Harriet’s hand. “Grandma, why don’t you hurry up and tell us the purpose of this lunch date today?”
Anastasia’s heart skipped a beat as she heard that, and she turned to look at Harriet. At the same time, Harriet glanced at Anastasia with a smile on her face before turning to glance at Nigel, who was seated next to Harriet. “Anastasia and Nigel, I’m very happy to know that the two of you are in a relationship, so I’ve asked the two of you out today to discuss the date for the wedding. That way, we can get the ceremony organized as soon as possible.”
At that point, Anastasia thought to herself, Elliot was right in his guess! Harriet has actually taken the proposal for real!
As for Nigel, he lifted his brows happily. “Sure! Grandma, why don’t you pick a date for us so that Anastasia and I can proceed with the wedding ceremony as soon as possible? Anastasia, how does that sound?”
Meanwhile, Elliot crossed his arms together and looked at the woman next to him with a slightly gloating look on his face as he waited to see how she was going to handle this.
On the other hand, Anastasia shot a resigned look at Nigel before she turned to speak to Harriet. “Old Madam Presgrave, Nigel was just fooling around when he proposed to me that day. Don’t take it seriously. We’re just good friends.”
“What?! How can one fool around with a marriage proposal?!” Harriet stared at her with an aghast look before turning to look at Nigel.