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Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 581

Though Gerald was aware that the incident had a huge impact on Xavia, he never once thought that it would almost end her life.

“That was the worst and darkest day in my sister’s entire life. And it’s all because of you, the infamous peasant! You’re well aware, I’m sure, that everyone looked down on you and nobody would even talk to you back then. Nobody except for my sister. She would hold your hand in school, go shopping together, and even dine out with you! But did you ever consider that doing all that with you would affect how everyone looked at her?”

“Hey, hey! Everyone, look! It’s Xavia Yorke! The girlfriend of our school’s biggest peasant!”

“That was what everyone was calling her back then. Despite that, she persevered and ignored the mockery just because she wanted to be with you. However, every girl has their self-esteem and one day my sister just couldn’t take it anymore. She felt that she was being treated unjustly and yes, it was the day she broke up with you!”

“But look at you now, still daring to claim that my sister is at fault!”

Gerald remained silent. He knew very well that Xavia wasn’t at fault since everyone had their own right to choose their own partner. Even so, the way Xavia ended up becoming after that event was a surprise even to Gerald.

“Do you remember how my sister begged you that day?” asked Natasha, her eyes baleful.

“Do you remember how you ignored her? As a result, she became so overwhelmingly embarrassed to face you and her classmates that she quit studying completely! That’s the reason why she dropped out! There were only a few more months to go before you guys would graduate but you ruined her at that very last stretch. Ten whole years of studying, gone, just like that!”

“After she left, she made up her mind to avoid you as much as possible which led her to move to Yanken since nobody knew you there. She was going to try to find a job there.”

“However, upon arriving there, her purse was stolen! Nobody can survive in Yanken without money so what could she do? Thankfully, she found a bar looking to hire which allowed her to finally settle down. Not that she had much of a choice at that moment since she was already penniless.”

“Her luck, however, eventually turned to misfortune since one of the bosses there had molested her due to her being so pretty. She slapped him out of anger and because of that, she almost lost her life! The one she had slapped was a very powerful person!”

“After getting on his bad side, it became even harder for her to find a proper job there. The boss wasn’t allowing her to leave Yanken either. She couldn’t even get train tickets to go home, and they continued to force my sister to obey every word they said!”

“Do you even remotely understand how scary it is for a girl to live in fear like that every day?”

“In the end, she ended up washing plates in a regular restaurant. She wasn’t paid in cash, but instead with meals and a place to stay in. All was not well though, since the lady boss kept bullying and even hitting her!”

“At her lowest when she was about to end herself, a miracle presented itself before her. The Long family’s butler coincidentally saw her and since they were short of maids to serve their second young master, Fred, he approached her asking if she would like to work for them. It was a blessing and she instantly agreed. What more, the second young master ended up falling in love with my sister and they’re now engaged!”

“Can you believe it, Gerald? The first half of my sister’s life was as terrible as what an arse like you would probably have wanted her to experience. I’m sure you would never have imagined that she would finally have her time to shine! Let me tell you this, my now brother-in-law is very obedient to my sister! Everyone that used to bully her is now bankrupt and the same goes for the boss that had made my sister’s life a living nightmare. He’s living in complete misery now, though that’s beside the point. What I’m getting at here, is that her biggest enemy is still you!” said Natasha with a cold-blooded face.

Gerald would never have imagined that so much had happened to Xavia after she left, nor would he have thought that she almost died because of him. However, the more surprising thing now, was that Xavia was now engaged to Fred. So that’s how Xavia and her sister got so powerful. The puzzle pieces were starting to fit together.

“I see. So why don’t you tell me where she is now?” asked Gerald.

“Not a problem. Come with me if you would like to see her!” said Natasha as she motioned a finger before turning around and walking off.

Frowning slightly, Gerald simply followed her.

Eventually, both of them reached a bar and the duo entered a room. Gerald could clearly see that nobody was in there.

“Where is Xavia?” asked Gerald again.

“You really wish to see her, don’t you? Sure thing, I’ll let you meet her right this instant!” said Natasha as she clapped her hands.

At that moment, the sound of several footsteps could be heard outside. The second the door opened, at least ten security guards dressed in black rushed in before immediately surrounding Gerald.

“Hahaha! Did you really think that I’d bring you to her, Gerald? She despises you! Why would she ever want to see you, idiot! You knew I was going to hurt you eventually, yet you came along anyway!”

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“Humph! That’s enough talk, get him!” ordered Natasha.

As soon as they received the order, the men in black immediately obeyed and held on tightly to both of Gerald’s arms.

“When will the revenge end?” asked Gerald calmly.

“Honestly, I don’t even know when we’ll ever stop but that’s beside the point. Don’t even dream of leaving this room tonight!” sneered Natasha.

“Is that so? Actually, Natasha, did your sister ever tell you that this street used to be called Mayberry Commercial Street? And that the bosses of these shops all know who I am?”

“Of course she has! But did you know that my sister’s bought this bar? The bar’s boss is just my little b*tch now! Bet you didn’t think that far ahead, did you?” replied Natasha proudly before walking toward him and giving him a tight slap on the face.

“That’s for my sister. You’ve made her suffer for far too long. Today, I’m letting you have a taste of what she experienced after all this time!” Natasha was going to look for him even if he hadn’t come on his own accord today.

“Unfortunately, I’m afraid you won’t be able to torture me today,” Gerald replied.

“What do you mean by that, you little rascal?” asked one of the security guards in return.

Just as his question ended, however, he immediately let out a scream before falling to the floor. His hands were pressed against his neck and his whole body trembled.

“What’s the meaning of this?” asked Natasha, visibly shocked.

She didn’t know what was happening. She could only feel—but not see—the presence of a shadowy figure in the room.

As she continued trying to make sense of the situation, her neck was suddenly locked by two firm arms.

At that moment, she realized that two men had entered the room without her realizing.

The other man was holding on to a long, silver needles. A second later, it was gone from his hand and the remaining man holding on to Gerald dropped to the ground. The other fallen guard was already foaming by then.

“Apologies for being late, Mr. Crawford!” said both men respectfully as they stood before Gerald. They were none other than Drake and Tyson.

Gerald simply responded with a nod.

He had been well aware that he needed to be cautious around Natasha. Both she and her sister were no longer the same people he used to know.

Gerald would never have allowed himself to follow her without some kind of backup plan. Thus, before he came here, he had contacted Drake and Tyson through his family’s specially made communication device so that they would know Gerald’s location at all times from that moment.

Since Natasha was being held hostage, the rest of her underlings didn’t dare to move an inch.

“Now tell me where Xavia is… Or do you want to end up foaming on the ground like that guard over there?” said Gerald as he looked at her, his eyes deadly serious.

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“I-I don’t know where she is! She only came to the school to visit me once. Other than that, we’ve only communicated through the phone!” cried out Natasha.

“Call her then!” ordered Gerald.

He had to meet up and deal with Xavia as soon as he could. Gerald couldn’t have her troubling him all the time.

‘If I’ve done anything wrong to you, take your revenge on me! Your mistake was hurting those close to me,’ Gerald thought to himself. He just couldn’t stand people like that.

As Natasha reached for her phone, she kept signaling to her subordinates—using her eyes—to take down Gerald and the duo. However, none of the guards even dared to move. They all knew how strong Gerald’s people were so they didn’t do anything. Only people like Scorpion would be able to deal with Tyson and Drake.

Understanding that they weren’t going to act, Natasha could only hand over her phone to Gerald in defeat.

Gerald quickly found Xavia’s number and called her. He soon found out, however, that Xavia’s phone had been turned off.

“Why is her phone turned off?”

“H-how should I know?”

“If you aren’t going to be honest with me, maybe this will make you more willing to comply. Tyson!”

“Yes, Mr. Crawford!” He then pulled out another silver needle and brought it close to her neck.

“W-wait!” At that moment, Natasha began crying before she said, “I-I’m telling the truth! That really is my sister’s number!” replied Natasha between wails.

No matter how much Tyson threatened to bring the needle closer to her, she kept repeating the same thing.

Tyson looked at Gerald. Gerald frowned before waving his hand. Tyson then immediately let go of her after seeing the gesture.

Gerald was just trying to scare her into telling the truth, but apparently she hadn’t lied in the first place. Even if he really wanted to beat Natasha up, he knew he could never bring himself to actually do it.

After all, he was the reason why Xavia dropped out. It was the only reason why he had taken the slap earlier. He saw it as returning a favor to Xavia.

Knowing that it was no use staying here, Gerald continued to frown as he walked out of the room.

“Mr. Crawford, what should we do with these people?” asked Drake as he pointed at the bodies lying on the ground.

Gerald simply nodded before leaving.

A second later, horrible shrieks could be heard coming from inside the room. Those guards had no right to be begging for their lives.

Walking over to the bar, Gerald ordered a beer. He was deep in thought, wondering how he should deal with Xavia.

When Gerald turned to look to his side, he was surprised. Sitting beside him was a girl, sipping on her champagne.

He considered talking to her, but eventually chose not to.

However, his curiosity got the better of him and he ended up looking at her again, just to check if she was really the person he thought she was. Much to her annoyance, the girl noticed his second glance and turned to look at him as well.

This resulted in both of them staring at each other in shock.

“….Gerald?”

“Maia?”

of them simultaneously

are you here?” asked

for a drink. What a coincidence!” replied

shared the same class, so how did they end up

days, he had often gone for competitions

a chance to participate in competitions since he would be able to somewhat gain a sense

of 24 people, with twelve being male and the other twelve female. Maia was on the team as well, and her main role was the

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little about Maia aside from the fact that she was

other things he knew was that she was very close to her grandfather and her parents were in politics. This resulted in her growing up in a rather lavish

also knew that while she and her family were locals, after the final examination,

him as the captain whenever they were representing the school in a competition. Outside that,

since she was both hardworking and capable. To top

she was a goddess to

who had their own ‘specialties’. Such ‘specialties’ included either being rich or having a powerful family with

people would never get the chance to even get close to her. This caused the past Gerald to be satisfied to just

forgotten that feeling, so he was rather nervous now that

hasn’t it? I heard you went to police school.

continued looking at him for a while before saying, “So, why are you

who had initiated the conversation, she wasn’t really paying attention to

haven’t found a job yet. Also, what are you looking at?” asked Gerald as he turned to look where her

time to talk to me then!” commanded Maia in a strict tone, just like she used to back

idea what was going on so he

then took another sip of her champagne before looking at Gerald with a smile, immediately causing him to blush. At that moment, something caught

young man. Gerald saw a few other young people running over as well, and in no time at all, the

pressed against the ground by a few people. A few bystanders witnessing the scene screamed as one of the young people shouted, “Don’t move! Police!” The person on the ground

a cop and she

It was all just for show, and Gerald smiled bitterly as he came to realize

Tyson were still inside beating up the guards from before. They wouldn’t let themselves be caught by Maia, right? If it somehow came to that, then things would become extremely

many days! Good work, Maia. Let’s go for a drink later!” said a tall, good-looking guy as he

said, “Wow, Warren,

Let’s head to another bar

talking to him earlier!” said one of the girls as she pointed toward Gerald who

he’s one of my high school acquaintances. Back then, I was the competition team

your relationship would be something like that! Haha! Why not ask him to join us? He’s quite good looking! Also, what does he do?” asked

and I was just about to ask him if he’d like to come along!” said Maia as she shook her

Gerald before saying, “Hey Gerald, come

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with a finger

After all, he was no longer the

where she would order him to do things like this

you moved those boxes

help everyone else with

Maia was so used

left speechless, he found himself walking

is true! Gerald really listens

he would dare not to! Not only was she his team captain in high school, she’s

pretty poor. How did you afford to drink at this bar? Did you get rich

girls looked surprised

for being broke. He used to only eat one meal a day and sometimes, he couldn’t even pay for his school fees! He was exceptionally poor!”

meant to be mean about it. It was just the personality she had grown up with. Regardless of how Gerald would

was the same in high school as well. No matter how embarrassing it would cause others to feel, Maia would always speak her mind without

a big deal for Maia, the other girls were now looking at Gerald differently. They were all sympathizing with him

see… Well, you should definitely start putting more thought into both,

high fever. Though he ended up dropping out of school, he started working

so he just remained silent while nodding,

let’s go get those drinks!” said Warren as he

Are you coming along,

won’t understand most

colleagues were just being nice, but if Gerald ended up taking it seriously, it could spell trouble for her. What more, she didn’t really feel comfortable with the idea of Gerald

then waved at Gerald one final time before leaving

Drake and Tyson leaning against the

it done? Where’s Natasha?” asked

said Drake with a

head with a smile. The three of them then left

Mr. Crawford?” asked Drake as they walked further

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of them definitely seemed to be his high school classmate.

the police academy or they’ve undergone some military training,”

them. Her name is Maia and she graduated from the police academy. She’s now part

she’s your classmate, we’ll just say this, Gerald. This friend of yours, along with her colleagues. They may

“…Huh?” Gerald was stunned.

Both of them had a weapon strapped to their sides, and they exuded equal amounts of murderous auras. I’m pretty sure that the duo following your classmate has undergone military training

if

out but he hadn’t noticed

myself to Tyson regarding such

way, Gerald was at least sure that the two people mentioned weren’t here

true that Gerald wasn’t really all that close to Maia. After all, they were barely friends back in high school. However, no matter what the

rest easy if he didn’t save her after knowing that

Gerald was certain at that moment that he didn’t want to expose his identity yet. After all,

a plan in mind. After discussing the plan with Tyson and Drake, Gerald immediately rushed toward

time he arrived, Maia and the others had already started drinking. They were now

is Gerald here?” said one of the girls as she spat out a mouthful of wine in surprise

the group,

asked Maia

a drink as a mere gesture of friendliness. She hadn’t expected him to actually join

stay out too late! It’s

say to give Maia a heads up

notice anything at all! Actually, who are you to say that someone is spying on us? If

leader who was warning them, Maia and the

was a warning from a close

like it was a direct insult to her career. It was similar to prey telling a predator what to

to say the

such a response before he even entered

does he even think

right? Was he the most hated guy in high

like Gerald either since

about him in the first place? Anyway, Maddy, Tina, follow me to

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then headed for the

washing her hands, through the mirror, her eyes caught sight of two women

through the mirror, she immediately felt that

guys doing?” asked Maia and

Aren’t both of you men dressed up as women? Maia, look! They have Adam’s apples

though! We’re here to kill you!” sneered the two

were both

“Ahh!”

girls were only newly-recruited police officers, both of them

herself was drenched in

moment when she remembered Gerald warning her earlier about her being spied on. If only she had been more aware of her surroundings, this turn of events

for arresting so many of our

pulled their triggers and Maia shut her eyes to

were then

to their necks. Their bodies took turns convulsing and stiffening before eventually, both

What the hell

two terrified girls from before were both

there. As soon as she poked her head outside, she found that

and a few dozen

you guys alright? D*mn it, that poor kid was right! Something was definitely wrong! I’ve just received a call from the Alpha Squad. They informed

he instantly noticed the two

moment and he, too, saw the two hitmen lying motionless on

said, “It’s them! Both of them are Class-A International Most Wanted

subdued

the two were about to shoot us, but they suddenly held on to their necks, froze in place, and eventually

way the two men had been

is the Silver Needle Vessel Technique, thought to have been lost in the mists of time!” said the captain who was

expert who had saved Maia and the

that the Weston military had produced two superior fighters who eventually became well-known in the west. The duo was best known for their Silver Needle

known as the Drake and Tyson Duo,” said the captain,

that they were—and currently still are—serving a mysterious family. By the looks of how the two criminals were apprehended, I can safely say

to say, the rest of