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Chapter 87
Chapter 87
Chapter 87
Chapter 87
Jalen did not wait for Elaina to finish the surgery at the hospital, but he decided to come again tomorrow. Anyway, Nitzan’s birthday was the day after tomorrow. Jalen thought that it was not late to invite Elaina tomorrow.
When Jalen just got into the car and was about to go to the office, Alisha called him. “Jalen, are you free in the afternoon? Go shopping with me, okay? I haven’t been back for two years. New York has changed a lot.”
“Sorry, I have a lot of work to do in the afternoon,” Jalen refused. If it weren’t for the incident with
Elaina, he would have agreed.
After that incident, Jalen had a sense of disgust for the Lory family. Moreover, he knew that Elaina did not like Alisha. Inexplicably, he did not want to get too close to Alisha.
Alisha, who was on the other side of the line, did not expect to be declined. She was angry, but she did not lose her temper. Instead, she said, “Mr. Halton’s birthday is on the day after tomorrow. I’d like to buy him a gift, but I don’t know what he likes. So I…”
Over the phone, Jalen seemed to have seen the grievance on Alisha’s face.
For a moment, Jalen hesitated.
“Jalen, I’ve thought that we are still close friends, no matter how long we have not seen each other.
But now, it seems that this is just what I think,” Alisha said in an upset tone.
Jalen frowned. After quite a while, he said, “Where are you? I’ll go to pick you up.”
In the end, Jalen agreed. To him, Alisha could be counted as a friend.
During the years when Jalen lost his parents, apart from his grandfather taking care of him, Alisha, as a friend of his, had helped Jalen a lot. Therefore, Jalen could not be so ruthless to Alisha.
“I’m at home. Then I’ll wait for you, okay?” Alisha smiled.
“Okay.”
After hanging up the phone, Jalen drove to the Lory’s house.
At 6:00 p.m., the surgery was completed. Elaina walked out of the operating room, with Joyce, who was chatting and laughing, by her side.
“Dr. Gainsford, you are awesome!” After watching the whole process of the surgery, Joyce admired Elaina’s skills so much.
Elaina looked calm and said, “Nothing. All surgeons at the Neurosurgery Department perform the surgery like this. You may have seen too little.”
“It is not like that,” Joyce retorted. “I have seen the other doctors‘ operations, but they are not as relaxed as you.”
“Maybe, this is so–called ‘Practice makes perfect‘,” Elaina explained.
When they returned to the office, Elaina packed up her things and was going to get off work.
Joyce said with a smile, “Dr. Gainsford, may I have the pleasure to treat you to dinner?”
Elaina cast a glance at Joyce and crossed her arms. Then she looked into Joyce’s eyes and asked, “Is there anything I can do for you?”
“Please do me a favor.”
Joyce smiled and immediately said, “I will be attending a birthday banquet in two days. My father gave me the important task of buying a gift, but I have no idea what to choose at all.”
“So you want me to help you choose a gift?” Elaina asked.
“Well, I think you are more thoughtful than me. The gift you choose must be better than I do.” Joyce thought of asking Elaina for help at the last moment. The most important thing was that she could take the opportunity to get closer to Elaina.
Elaina looked at her phone. She had no appointment tonight, so she was idle and bored. Then she nodded. “Okay, but I can’t guarantee that what I choose will be liked.”
After all, a gift had to be something to meet the receiver’s favorite.
According to what Joyce just said, Elaina guessed Joyce probably had no idea what the birthday person was fond of. In this case, it was very difficult to pick a birthday gift.
“It doesn’t matter. Just do your best. He won’t care much about this gift,” Joyce said. It was Nitzan, the owner of the Halton family. How could he take a fancy to Joyce’s gift?
As long as it was seemingly graceful and not disrespectful, it would be fine. This was the request from Joyce’s father.