I see, Toby thought, nodding. I thought she was picking on Sonia.

“I have to tell you off about this, Toby,” Titus said with a straight face, giving him a displeased look. “Although Tina isn’t officially engaged to you, the news that she’s your fiancée was already announced during the party which was ruined by Sonia. Since she’s already your fiancée, you should at least give her a ring. People will make a joke out of her if she’s got nothing from you.”

“Stop it, Dad. Toby has his own ideas, and we shouldn’t force ours on him,” Tina said hurriedly, tugging at Titus’ sleeve. Then, she cast an apologetic look at Toby as though she was afraid that he would be angry. “I’m sorry, Toby. Don’t take my dad’s words to heart.”

“That’s okay, but Mr. Gray is right. I should give you a ring,” Toby replied composedly.

 

The reason he hadn’t given her a ring this whole time was because he simply didn’t feel like giving her one. That was why he brushed them off with the excuse that he would give it at the wedding. While even himself couldn’t explain why he didn’t feel like giving her a ring, Titus had a point—if he still didn’t put a ring on Tina even after she was his fiancée, everyone would belittle her.

“Toby, are you for real?” Tina asked, beaming at him.

I promised that I would make her happy for the rest of her life. I can’t just

cried, throwing

Titus glared at her and said, “You left me for a ring. Husbands are more important to girls than

in fact she had exchanged a look with him. That

 

upstairs, they already found out that he was the one in the first private suite, and

and Toby didn’t even

pick out a ring tomorrow, Toby? I would like a ring from DR. Even though that brand is considered a lower-end luxury brand and the prices are generally not expensive, I still want it because the brand only allows a

and his first reaction was to turn down her idea. Despite that, when he saw the anticipation in

you, Toby!” she said happily

the other hand, Toby merely gave her a lopsided smirk, and instead of feeling equally happy, he felt frustrated. A few seconds later, he peeled her away from himself gently

now,” Titus

than the Grays, and even though they were not comparable to the Fullers, the Grays still had to show them some respect and not

in the brightly-lit banquet hall, Sonia was looking around the room with a glass of juice in her hand as though she was searching for

him recently. He’s Toby’s friend to begin with, but he kept swarming around us instead of hanging out with him. What’s worse, we couldn’t even chase him away! It’s really

okay, he’s not mean and has a nice, friendly personality. It’s kind of easy to get along with him,” Sonia

why he kept coming to them, she knew for

earlier, darling?” Charles asked and took a

looking for Carl. Since the auction began, I’ve not seen him and only heard his voice,” she answered, rubbing the middle

hear that you miss me so much, Sonia.” A man’s gentle voice rang from behind

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