Semua Bab After Rebirth, I Married His Billionaire Uncle : Bab 51 - Bab 60

“Bite! We’ve got a bite!”“Told you the bug spray wouldn’t matter, I didn’t pour it in the river! Taking a picture right now, sending it to the whole chat!”Edward was practically vibrating with excitement.“Big Brother, that fish isn’t really that big, though.”The catch was decent, but average-sized, nowhere near the trophy fish from before.“Oh, don’t worry about that. At least dinner’s covered. We’ll keep casting after we eat.”He held the basket up for Nora and Nathaniel to admire.The haul had come in strong, seven or eight decent fish thrashing in the basket, plus a whole scatter of smaller ones. Way more than four people could eat in one sitting.“I’ll have Kevin run these to a restaurant nearby, get them cooked and brought back. You two keep fishing, dinner will come to you.”“We could just go eat there, couldn’t we? Hauling it back sounds like a hassle.”Edward and her father both felt a flicker of guilt watching Nathaniel accommodate them so easily.“No hassle at all. This

The whole point of night fishing is staying up. Nobody was supposed to sleep, that was the deal.Six tents pitched along the water, and not a single one had anybody inside.Nora had been fishing purely for fun, not tracking her catches at all, until her back finally started screaming from sitting too long. As the sky darkened fully, she stood and stretched.At the neighboring pond, her father and Edward remained deep in concentration. Richard and Vivian, though, had vanished.A few minutes later, the two of them reappeared, walking back with Richard’s assistant.“Grabbed some snacks and drinks for later, juice, soda, whatever, help yourselves if you’re hungry.”“Oh, right, I actually packed food too. Still in the car.”Nora smacked her forehead.“Want me to grab it?”“Let’s go together. I know what I packed and where.”Before Vivian could volunteer to join, Nora grabbed Nathaniel’s arm and pulled him toward the car first.The dirt path at night was rough going, especially in midsummer

Approaching the table, Nora caught Marcus murmuring something to a waiter.She glanced over. Marcus leaned in, quiet. “I sent Richard’s invitation over a month ago, never actually reserved seats for them at this table. I genuinely didn’t expect them to show.”Anything sent beyond the standard thirty-day window functioned as a soft rejection, the polite version of “send a gift, don’t bother coming.”It was the polite way to invite someone you were obligated to include but didn’t actually want present. Marcus probably felt awkward inviting Nathaniel without technically extending something to his nephew too.In her last life, Sophie would’ve handled correspondence like that, and any invite arriving that far out would’ve triggered a simple gift-and-decline. Richard actually showing up hadn’t been on the table.He probably had no idea exactly when the invite arrived, and Vivian, oblivious to the etiquette entirely and driven purely by wanting to compete with Nora, had dragged him along reg

Nora didn’t much care how the Richard fallout was handled internally. As compensation, Grandma Rose personally transferred five percent of Whitfield Enterprises stock over to her.A modest stake, not much in dollar terms, but it carried real weight as a symbol of the family’s recognition.Nora was genuinely thrilled, riding that high enough to spend an evening just messing around at home.It wasn’t until Lawson sent her a complaint that she realized she’d been so absorbed in the TikTok partnership talks with Marcus that she’d completely lost track of him.Fair enough, even with Richard and Vivian leaving a bad taste in Marcus’s mouth, none of it had touched Nora’s actual deal with him. This time around, she’d landed the TikTok partnership nearly a full year ahead of schedule compared to her last life. Genuinely hard not to be thrilled about that.Scrolling through her messages, Lawson’s string of pouting emojis got a laugh out of her.Sophie, pure career mode as always, had been leavi

Since they’d already agreed on a handoff time, Nora skipped heading straight back to the hotel and planned a beach walk with Sophie instead.“Bathroom first, give me a second.”She headed toward the hotel restrooms, texting Lawson on the way.Nora: Heading out for a walk soon. Should I have Sophie hang back a bit so you two can walk together?Lawson: No need, boss. She’d feel weird about a long walk alone with me this early. Plenty of time for that down the road.Nora hadn’t fully worked out the dynamic between them yet, she’d assumed Lawson would jump at every opening. Instead, he seemed more focused on what actually made Sophie comfortable.That only bumped him up further in her estimation.She finished up fast, and the four of them headed for the beach.The resort sat right against the coast, so the view hit immediately outside, even without the observation deck, the ocean stretched wide and gorgeous straight from the ground level.Plenty of bikinis and beach shorts everywhere too,