Chapter 126

Nicole's POV

"Dad, did you tell Matthew my phone number?" I asked Edwin when we were already in the car.

The old man looked at me with some surprise. "Oh, did you call Mr. Thompson's son by his name?"

I didn't answer my father's question, which sounded like I was diverting my question to something else, but just looked at him straight. He sighed softly with a faint smile.

"Yes, I gave that young man your phone number, Nicole," my father confessed, adding another statement that made it look like he was adding a good reason for his unexpected actions. "You know that my father has been in business for quite some time, so there was an occasion when Benny and I met at an event."

I heard my father's brief explanation of his twenty-year business relationship with Matthew's father. This wasn't the first time they'd agreed to work together, but they'd been doing it for so many years that they were like old friends.

Although there were a few years where they didn't work together for a long time