My Wife is a Hacker by Summer

“It’s our turn now since you’ve given her your gift already,” Lulu teased.

“Of course,” Stanley said, not in the least surprised by how others had come to know about Tia’s birthday.

He felt that Nicole knew that today was Tia’s birthday, and that she had seen her plan to surprise from a mile away. If his guess was correct, Nicole had informed others of the occasion and its purpose.

“You’ve all prepared gifts too?” Tia asked, her eyes widening in surprise.

The last thing she had expected him to do was throw her a surprise party by inviting all of their close friends to celebrate her birthday this year. The only other thing she did not see coming was that they had shown up bearing gifts.

“Of course we did. Preparing gifts is a must for such an important occasion,”

Lulu replied, before handing her gift to Tia.

After everyone had given the items they had prepared to Tia, Preston lowered his head awkwardly and apologized. “Sorry, I didn’t prepare any.”

“Did no one tell you?” Samuel asked, a little taken aback.

that the latter coming emptyhanded was a result of him being genuinely oblivious to the purpose of

Preston said, his eyes

wondered why everyone was aware of Tia’s birthday except for

to tease him, Lulu raised her eyebrows. “Well,

with one another. Nobody had made any official announcements, so they had accidentally forgotten to

eat

all, it was not his fault that he did not have a girlfriend, and Lulu’s jibes at the dinner table had only served

was just

his eyes narrowed in discomfort. “Can you count me out like you did for Ellar? I’m begging

all of that pressure on him, he would find the responsibility too overwhelming

“Hey, I’m not throwing anyone under the bus

glanced over at Patricia. ‘If Patricia won’t be my girlfriend, I’ll stay single forever.’ Preston’s expression soured in an instant, and

single sentence from him got the entire crowd roaring and guffawing, making the atmosphere in the room even merrier than

lost in thought. She had seen through Ellar’s intentions, but she did not know how

birthday today. I