I quietly handed the gift to Raline. She glanced at it, then stepped a few feet away, as if trying to avoid any misunderstanding.
“Alright, Hudson has already given me more than a dozen gifts, so don’t bother.”
I gave a faint smile. "Okay!"
So she already saw Hudson as her husband. Her real husband giving her a gift only made me look nosy.
I passed it to the butler, Alvin. “Alvin, this is for your wife. Please take it to her.”
Alvin immediately thanked me sincerely. “Mr. Palmer, you’re too generous. I’ll thank you on behalf of your wife.”
He bowed to me.
See? Sometimes, a small act of kindness from a stranger could touch someone deeply.
Some people, no matter what you did for them, stayed indifferent, treated you like nothing and thought you were just trying to please them.
A business partner came over to congratulate me. “Mr. Palmer, congratulations on your son’s birth!”
Then, looking confused, he asked, “Mr. Palmer, why don’t you take care of President Leighton yourself? Why do you keep asking Mr. Pellegrini to handle it?”
I smiled lightly. “It’s all the same. We’re one family, no need to make it sound so formal.”