Secret Wealthy Marriage
Chapter 1155 - 015 Birthday Surprise, Conspiracy Arises Again

Chapter 1155: 015 Birthday Surprise, Conspiracy Arises Again

The start of the academic year is always busy.

Four people, three departments, four different majors; so even though they were at the same university, they didn’t see each other much unless they arranged to meet by phone.

Evelyn Willow and Stella Carrington were in the same department, and they rarely saw each other either. However, for the two of them, not meeting was quite alright.

Evelyn Willow was becoming more and more impatient with Stella Carrington, especially since every time Stella came around, she made trouble for Elena Duncan, which he found extremely annoying.

His patience with Stella Carrington was wearing thin. In the past, the reason he was so good to her, even to the point of answering her every request, was solely because of Elena Duncan’s pleas.

Without his sister’s intervention, Stella Carrington wouldn’t have been able to throw her weight around at school for all those years. Did she really think Axel Hawkins treated her differently than other girls?

She basked in Elena’s favor, yet didn’t appreciate it at all. That was truly unprecedented.

Time always flies, and soon half the semester had passed. Each of the four had found their own circle of friends. Of course, every weekend was reserved for family gatherings.

Stella Carrington was quite confrontational, but because the three men in the house all protected Elena, no one took Stella’s behavior seriously, especially not the servants. In any situation, they would ask Elena or Liam Carrington instead.

On the surface, the four of them got along relatively peacefully.

In such an atmosphere, Elena Duncan’s eighteenth birthday arrived.

Because Elena’s birthday was not during a holiday, Evelyn Willow hadn’t celebrated it with Elena for a long time. An eighteenth birthday is crucial for every girl; they say a young woman blossoms at eighteen. Hence, he had started preparing Elena’s birthday gift well in advance.

He spent every spare moment each day visiting malls, looking for the most unique gift that would best express his feelings for Elena. The price was not a concern for him at all.

Not only did he do this, but he also called Axel Hawkins daily. Axel, in fact, was also quietly preparing, but since both of them were not particularly skilled with their hands, they could only browse the malls for something suitable.

On Friday, the two of them agreed to go shopping together. When Stella Carrington learned they were going to buy Elena a birthday gift, she eagerly joined in.

"Kent, Axel, are you going to buy Elena a birthday gift? It just so happens I haven’t prepared anything either. Let’s go together," Stella Carrington offered to join the two men.

In recent times, they hadn’t interacted with her much, and she knew it was because she had been rude to Elena as soon as she arrived, which had annoyed them.

"You actually care about Elena’s birthday? It’s not some Queen out to get Snow White, is it?" Evelyn Willow spoke up with sarcasm, causing Stella Carrington’s face to fall immediately.

"Can’t you speak to me without being so sarcastic, please?" Stella Carrington glared at Evelyn Willow.

Truthfully, she hadn’t intended to approach them today. She would have happily approached just Axel, but why did she have to bet with her classmates? They all were eager to meet these two handsome men from Z Country.

Stella Carrington was a woman who valued her pride highly, so to win the friendship of those girls, she flaunted her relationship with them. When she saw those girls looking at her with admiration, she felt as if she had regained the glory of her high school days.

The girls from M Country were different from the girls back home; it wasn’t enough to just speak with them. That’s why on Saturday, she had invited several girls over to her house to hang out.

She wanted to show them whether she lived with the two handsome men or not.

Her brother, Liam Carrington, wasn’t bad-looking either. When the time came, she’d let them see all three handsome men in her family.

She knew that Elena would be busy at school on Saturday and wouldn’t be home, so she had deliberately chosen Saturday for this occasion.

"..." Evelyn Willow didn’t want to bother with her. Before, when they had bumped into each other in the department, he had greeted her, but she had acted aloof. After that, he stopped speaking to her altogether.

Later, when she tried to strike up a conversation with him, he ignored her.

"Axel, I really do want to prepare a good birthday gift for Elena. You believe me, don’t you?" Stella Carrington said earnestly to Axel Hawkins.

"Then let’s go together," Axel Hawkins stated indifferently.