The Secretly Rich Man

Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 321

Leopold White’s next order from Gerald was to untie the other three girls and bring them along.

They had used his name freely, thinking they could do whatever they pleased without having to face the consequences. Making them anxious was his way of teaching them a lesson. He had never planned to leave the girls stranded there in the first place.

Leopold White—the man with white hair—was an outstanding bodyguard who worked under Michael. To put simply, Leopold’s job was similar to Flynn’s who worked under Zach.

Michael had brought him here from Hong Kong.

“They’ll be arriving soon, Mr. Zeke. It’ll be inconvenient for me to meet them here so I’ll be taking my leave first. Is my ride ready?” asked Gerald to Michael who was sitting beside the driver.

“The ride will be here at any moment now, Mr. Crawford. We’ll depart as soon as it arrives. Leopold can handle the rest. He’ll be safely escorting Miss Milton and the others back to their college.”

As he said that, a limousine stopped beside them. Gerald wiped the sweat off his forehead as he stepped into the limousine. He then left the area together with Michael.

Earlier when they had pinpointed the girls’ location, Gerald had told Zack to keep a close eye on the Rye Group as well as the police. Following that, he and Michael drove immediately to the place.

Gerald breathed a sigh of relief as soon as he confirmed that Naomi was safe.

As the four girls left the unfinished factory, they looked at Naomi. Yvonne, particularly, looked toward her with eyes filled with admiration.

“What was all that? Was it only you that they had initially come for, Naomi? Were you the one who called them over?”

From what they had seen and experienced, it seemed only fair to assume that the rescue team had only arrived to save Naomi.

As they descended the stairs, they were momentarily stunned when they realized how many people were involved in the operation.

In the room downstairs, at least twenty professional-looking bodyguards waited with their hands behind them.

Outside, there were at least six Maybach cars. There was even a high-end SUV.

Though Cassandra was rather powerful, only a few Rolls-Royce had come to pick her up at that moment.

Thinking back, Naomi’s team of bodyguards seemed even more outstanding than the current one, especially the white-haired youth who acted both coldly and cruelly without hesitation.

Both Felicity and Cassandra looked at Naomi curiously.

“Um… I don’t know either. I have no idea who any of these are! I’m as clueless as the rest of you…” said Naomi, looking extremely confused.

“If that’s the case… Who ordered you to save us, mister?” Cassandra couldn’t help but ask curiously.

Leopold however, retained his emotionless facade. He continued leading them without saying a word.

Realizing he wouldn’t answer, Cassandra signaled Naomi to try asking him instead.

“We’d like to thank the person who had told you to save us, mister. Please tell us who it is,” pleaded Naomi.

“I’m afraid I cannot comply, Miss Milton. My superior has specifically told me not to reveal his true identity. Not even to you,” answered Leopold respectfully.

“Actually… Couldn’t it be Gerald?” Yvonne said out loud.

“Gerald?” Both Felicity and Cassandra were stunned. The thought had never crossed their mind.

“Thinking back… We had all tried to call for help earlier but only Naomi was able to get her call across. Didn’t she call Gerald? That would mean that only he would be aware that we were in trouble in the first place!”

Analyzing the situation, Yvonne seemed unwilling to accept her own suggestion.

The same went for Felicity and Cassandra.

“Actually… Assuming it was Gerald who saved us, how would you say he got that many people to come save us? It’s kind of illogical to conclude that he saved us, don’t you think?” said Felicity.

Cassandra looked at Naomi nervously after Felicity had ended her sentence. She then asked, “Naomi, are you really sure that you called Gerald earlier? Maybe you actually called someone else? Are there any other influential and powerful people in your family? Maybe outside connections?”

They took turns looking at each other anxiously.

This was because both Cassandra and Felicity looked down on Gerald the most.

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However, if it was indeed true that Gerald was a powerful and influential man, they would prefer to die rather than accept that fact.

Cassandra recalled the time she had suffered terribly and had a restless night when she found her power bank in Flynn’s car before.

“I was nervous back then and now that I think about it, I’m not too sure if I had called Gerald anymore… However, it is undeniable that the first contact number in my contact list is his. The second is my cousin’s, whom I called just this morning. If we’re talking about connections, it could be her. She works as a vice president for an international trade enterprise so she would definitely know a lot of people,” said Naomi, careful with her words.

“That sounds much more logical. Your finger could have accidentally tapped her number. Following that, your cousin must have arranged for the rescue! Some of the guards here look like they could be SWAT cops while the others look like gangsters!” Cassandra said in a soft voice to them as she analyzed the members of their rescue team.

“Did we guess correctly, mister?” Felicity asked Leopold. They were quite sure that they had made the right conclusion.

However, Leopold’s face didn’t move a muscle. He simply opened the door of the Maybach which was parked in front of the other cars. It was the same car which Gerald and Michael had arrived at the factory with.

“It’s time to return to your college. Get in the car,” said Leopold.

“You’re avoiding our question… That must mean we guessed correctly!” Yvonne said happily.

“Mister, may I borrow your phone? I wish to call my cousin.” Yvonne’s confidence had assured Naomi that it was indeed her cousin who had saved them.

“Very well, Miss Milton,” said Leopold as he handed his phone to Naomi with utmost respect. All of them then entered the car.

“Hello? Cousin, is that you? This is Naomi. Were you the one who had orchestrated the rescue mission?”

“I wouldn’t say orchestrated but yes, I was the one who called the criminal investigation team. Have they already saved you? They work really fast. I’m glad to hear that you’re fine. I had tried to call you back earlier but the line kept going to voicemail. So I called your counselor but that failed too. I began to worry that something bad may have happened so I sent a message to your classmate, Gerald, to look into the situation. He told me that you had been kidnapped!” Naomi’s cousin said nervously.

Wait… How did her cousin know about Gerald? Was it because she had that many connections? Actually, where had Gerald gotten the money to buy that phone and those clothes for Xavia before? Was it even possible to earn that much money through a part-time job alone?

Thinking back, it was Naomi who had asked her cousin to find a place for Gerald, Harper and the others for their part-time jobs.

Sometime then, her cousin had occasionally made Gerald run errands for her. That was probably the reason why she had Gerald’s, Harper’s, and a few of her other friends’ contact numbers in the first place.

“I see… Well don’t worry, we’re fine now. They’re taking us back to the college at the moment.”

“That’s good to hear. Rest well, I’ll meet up with you tomorrow. You’re going for an internship soon so I’ll have to discuss the work details with you anyway.”

“Got it. Make sure you hit the hay soon too!”

Sitting so close to each other, the other girls were able to listen in to the entire conversation.

Putting two and two together, they eventually pieced the puzzle together.

It was indeed Gerald who had notified her about the kidnapping.

“That stupid Gerald! He knew we were being kidnapped but he didn’t do anything about it!”

“If Naomi’s cousin hadn’t called him, who knows what would have happened to us!”

“I’m going to strangle him to death once we return to college!” scowled Cassandra under her breath.

All of a sudden, Felicity yelped in pain. It seemed as though she had hurt herself somehow.

Biting her lower lip in pain, Felicity moved her hand beneath her to find whatever had hurt her butt.

She pulled out a small coat that had a phone inside it.

“I’m terribly sorry mister, I accidentally sat on your clothes!” said Felicity apologetically.

“…Hmm? This coat looks familiar…”

It took her a moment, but when she realized who it belonged to, Felicity was dumbfounded.

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“…Eh? Isn’t this the coat I bought for Gerald?” Felicity asked aloud, a clear confusion in her voice.

There was no doubt about it. It was definitely the coat she had bought for him in the mall that afternoon.

“Are you sure Felicity?” asked Cassandra, stunned at her claim.

She took the coat from her to have a look at it herself, and it was true. It was indeed the exact same coat.

‘How could this be? Why would his coat be in this particular Maybach?’ The girls were all thinking the same thing, their confusion reflected in their eyes as they took turns staring at Leopold who was still driving.

Leopold, for the first time since meeting the girls, began fidgeting slightly.

Mr. Crawford had specifically ordered him to keep his identity a secret.

However, with the progression of the girls’ conversation, things were becoming awkward for him very quickly.

“That’s my coat. I usually just leave it on the passenger’s seat,” lied Leopold.

Felicity and Cassandra looked at each other. They doubted Leopold’s claim because the coat definitely looked like it cost less than a hundred bucks. While Gerald usually wore coats that ranged around three hundred dollars, Leopold was even less likely to be the owner of the coat.

This was because the coat Leopold currently wore probably cost at least five thousand dollars.

‘Oh god, was Gerald in this car before them?’ the girls thought to themselves, shocked.

“It really is mine, no need to speculate. I wear casual clothes too you know!” said Leopold with a slight quiver in his voice. He knew they weren’t buying his story.

A guilty person usually starts talking more. Cassandra knew this as a fact.

Felicity didn’t believe him either. She slid her hand into the coat and took the phone out. It was what had hurt her butt earlier.

“Isn’t… This Gerald’s phone?” she asked, stunned as she observed the familiar phone.

“Let me have a look!” Felicity said aloud, her hands shaking slightly.

Before she could grab it for herself, Yvonne snatched it out of Felicity’s hand. ‘…It’s true!’ Yvonne thought to herself.

‘Mr. Crawford must have forgotten about his coat and phone earlier while he was hurrying back,’ Leopold concluded in his mind.

But Leopold wasn’t one to give in easily to pressure. No matter how much the girls asked after that point, he remained quiet and refused to say anything.

His mission was completed the moment they returned to college. After dropping them off, he drove away immediately.

“So… Counselor, is it really true? Was it really Gerald who saved us? Why else would his coat and phone be in the car! Thinking back, he was the first to learn that we were kidnapped too!” Yvonne cried out, almost in tears.

Her nervousness was warranted as Yvonne had always condemned Gerald. If there were to ever come a day where he grew more powerful than her, she would definitely feel extremely upset.

Felicity’s face went pale as well as she considered the thought. ‘If that were the case, what was Gerald’s true identity? Could he actually be Mr. Crawford? Or even Ordinary Man?’ Felicity thought to herself, slightly shaking.

“That’s enough! Stop playing the guessing game and calm yourselves for a moment. The coat and phone may be similar to Gerald’s, but how certain are we that they’re actually his? Another possibility would be that Gerald could have been in the car for a while after he told the police about us. Since the police needed to keep the informant’s identity a secret, they sent Gerald to a safe place before coming over to save us. Aren’t those explanations logical as well?” Cassandra explained her theories in a quivering, but mature voice.

She had experienced a similar nervousness before. In fact, Cassandra was probably the most nervous among the girls at that moment.

It was because she knew that Gerald had borrowed her power bank before this. It was left behind in a Rolls-Royce. Now both the coat and his phone were left in the Maybach. It was just too much of a behavioral coincidence.

What more, Gerald was the first to suspect that something was wrong in both incidents.

At the moment, Cassandra’s mind actively refused to link the coincidences together.

“That’s enough. How about this? We’ll go to Gerald’s dorm and ask him about it in person. We’re going to ask him what happened today.”

Cassandra said again.

“Alright. If we’ve our phones with us, we could give Gerald a call!” Yvonne reacted soon.

to the idea. “However, we can still take the coat and phone along with us to pass them back to him

dormitory, Gerald shed his clothes off, leaving only a pair of shorts on before he

sudden, the dorm’s door was flung open with a

followed

was Harper as he ran off to find something to hide

What on earth are you doing

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repeated his question, his voice full of

him and walked toward

immediately, Gerald!”

to consider what he had on at the moment. Once he

you doing?!” Gerald yelped as his hands moved to

These women were terrifying.

both Cassandra and Felicity had their arms crossed as they watched the scene play out. Naomi simply hid

shouted as she held

them were thinking the same thing. ‘So it wasn’t

they were prisoners who had just been

for Cassandra who felt almost overjoyed. ‘I’m glad it wasn’t

themselves down, they soon came to the realization that all the men in the dormitory were

She then asked, “Gerald, after you received a call from Naomi asking for

police. Before I could, Xyleena sent me a message asking me where Naomi was and I told her what I knew. She immediately arranged for some people to rescue you. I’m glad to see that all of you are safe and

for overthinking earlier! We really were saved by Naomi’s

why don’t you wear pajamas when you

condemning Gerald one last time, the women

back for a while to explain to

god I reacted quickly enough…’

truth was that he had been extremely nervous throughout the entire rescue mission. He was sweating profusely so he had to take off his coat

nervously observing the girls as they left the building. He did so through his laptop which had access to

entered the limousine, his eyes were still glued onto the laptop’s monitor. It took him a while, but he eventually realized that his

mind, Gerald knew that his identity would definitely be exposed

an idea came to him. He immediately went off to get a similar phone and jacket. However, he could only hope that the battery in his old phone died quickly so

the phone seemed to have died before they managed to

so that

would have little need to contact

no reason for me to

eventful one, but they somehow managed to subdue all

few hours later, Saturday morning

in the morning and Gerald was doing some revision in his

blue, Naomi gave him a

Gerald had told Zack to help register his number again with his

to the service

college. I’m indebted to you for your help yesterday. Please come! My cousin could even arrange a job for you. Harper and the others are

think I’ll pass. Besides, I hardly helped at all,” Gerald said, a bitter smile on his

invite you over personally! On a serious note, my cousin really wishes

Alright, we’ll

In truth, he had indeed helped them. It was fine to indulge himself with a simple meal like this every once in a

Gerald was simply reluctant

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Harper, and a few others arrived at the restaurant, Naomi was

Xyleena, was a young man in his mid-twenties. He wore a suit and his shoes were made of

one of the more outstanding people in society, and she had social

Xyleena was actually a rather arrogant person. She only helped Gerald and a few others find part-time jobs because they were friends with Naomi. Otherwise, she wouldn’t even have

take a seat. All of you,” Xyleena said in

Gerald complied.

a frightening chain of events, last night was. We’ll have a toast in a bit, but before that, I’d like to introduce someone to all of you. This man is Brian Merrall, and he’s been my friend all the way back from high school. He’s the team leader of the criminal investigation team in Mayberry and he’s also the one I called

Thank you very much for saving us!” said Yvonne. After realizing who Brian was, Yvonne couldn’t help but admire

were able to uncover an even bigger criminal case that they were involved in. If it wasn’t for you, we may never have gotten

at how well-spoken he is, Naomi! Let’s have a toast with the

cousin wasn’t reacting appropriately, Xyleena took it into her own hands to remind

well. If it wasn’t for him, we may never have been saved

about the call, who knows what would have become

doing Naomi? I told you to thank Inspector Merrall, not Gerald,” said Xyleena,

poor man do? He said he was going to launch a police report but he must have been too stunned

shook his

receive our gratitude, it should be Xyleena and Inspector Merrall! I’ll be having tea instead of wine, but allow me to toast to

care about Gerald

Naomi felt that something

the day before. On another note, Leopold was also clearly much stronger than Brian in terms

Something was definitely wrong.

addition to that, Naomi felt slightly sick hearing how the rest continued to

my connections to try landing him a job with benefits. One that includes endowment insurance, medical insurance,

a job with all the previous insurances as well as housing funds?” asked

these days. With Gerald, it may be a little difficult to arrange such a company to take him in. However, I’ll try my

indirectly saying that Gerald was

he’ll most probably only be a hindrance to the other employees!” Yvonne said without filtering

be an office worker given his character. He really can’t do much else and even the counselor would agree,” said

boil as he

it, this happens every time! It’s almost as if they run out of topics to say if they’re not

I was an honest man before this, but

was only honest because I didn’t have much money or

angrily in

that moment, his phone

see who was calling, he saw that it

walked away from them

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“Sister, what’s up?”

airport soon. Could you please find someone to pick them up? I’ve arranged some other tasks for both Zack and Michael

said Gerald

in contact with his family

can meet up then, just brother and sister!”

missed her

a bit, Gerald finally

Zach and Michael were busy, it was best that Gerald didn’t

assign the task to?’ He scratched

the restaurant

just pick them up himself since

he re-entered the restaurant and told Naomi that

to be quite busy!” said

claim that you’re busy? How dare

pressured to be here, being as poor as he is. Speaking of which, Brian.

a Maybach, but judging from your description, it’s quite impossible that such a person is from our police team,”

was off. The police team certainly did run a big

big enough to the point where there were even rumors that superiors from the province came

Brian had received a call from Xyleena, claiming that her cousin had been

too similar to the case which they had

not to worry and said that

his large team, the criminals had already been caught. The hostages had even been rescued,

was not allowed to

meal since he knew he hadn’t done anything much to save

two groups of people who

time to clean up the

police team? I suppose so… It does seem quite impossible for a policeman to

Inspector Merrall?” asked Cassandra in shock. ‘Why was it so difficult to get to the

the time we got to the scene, you had already been saved. You girls had even left at that point!” explained Brian as he

them. All they needed to know was that he hadn’t

to square one. Who was it exactly that came to our rescue?” All four

moment, Felicity’s phone

“Yes? Who is this?”

bought a suit from us yesterday. However, your boyfriend came last night to buy another of the exact same suit. We only had a smaller one in stock, but he insisted on buying it. A few suits his size have arrived today and we were wondering if he would like to exchange the suit he bought

you mean Gerald. He’s not my boyfriend. Why did he even buy two suits?” Yvonne

conversation as well and was equally

room yesterday wasn’t the one that Felicity had bought for him. He fooled

warning, Cassandra

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Gerald

no other explanation, especially when she linked this event with the previous

was indeed a strange person. He lived a

first to learn about the incident back when I was first

had befallen us, which led to the four

seemed that Mr. Crawford was the one orchestrating all this, but this time, his

a good relationship

vice president of the student union the other day! What happened in the end? Come to think of it, the department director was respectful

now and we don’t even

importantly… Gerald shares the same

Gerald was indeed Mr.

as her onslaught

the others were catching

were left

Crawford? Then is he Ordinary Man too?” Felicity asked in a nervous

case!” said Cassandra, her voice weak. “But we shouldn’t be nervous. We can observe Gerald secretly until we’re sure of his

she would end up falling in

meal became a strange one, with

Gerald was already at the villa. He started up the engine of his high-end limousine

had heard that his family had sent them over, and that each of them

before, so he didn’t know what an

sign up and

limousine just outside the arrival gate. He couldn’t really

to the butler through the contact number his sister had given

too long after, Gerald began regretting

young people, especially girls, were gawking at his

group photographs

car, Gerald felt extremely

was happening, a group of four walked past

someone to

kind-looking old man with white hair took the lead. Following behind, was a young and lively girl who seemed to be either

was a pair of twins. Both brothers seemed to be in their thirties and they both wore suits. However, even that did not fully erase the fact that they both

to act as bodyguards

Crawford will be sending someone here to pick us up. I’ve just received the car’s license plate number. Drake, Tyson, go check if

“Right away, Mr. Kendall!”

then began looking

some research, and apparently the food here is rather special. Is it alright if I try some for myself later?” the girl asked. She appeared to be more on the naughty side as she pleaded to

a while anyway. You can eat whatever

ended his

had located

got there, Gerald was there waiting

about to exit the car to introduce himself, he

Crawford extremely handsome? Miss Crawford is such a charming lady, he must definitely be

slightly

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nonsense when you meet Mr. Crawford later, Dorothy. Control your rashness as well. Miss Crawford may adore and spoil you, but what

person, he’s a wicked man inside! He appears to have

if you say that again!

talk about it. I’ve also heard that he’s a promiscuous man who has gotten several women pregnant

see that those ignorant kids are indeed done for! How could they spread such baseless rumors about Mr. Crawford? Truly preposterous! Dorothy, Miss Crawford has told

his elder sister. She’ll praise him no matter what

you naughty girl! Keep your mouth shut!” Mr. Kendall