The Lord Mayor Falls in Love with Me

Chapter 74 Vicious slander

It was an eventful night.

Ben Hawk had been waiting outside the school gate with a gift bag in his hand for a week.

Vivian had never returned home again since the night she passed out during sex with him.

He initially thought Vivian was just hurt and vindictive, so he had taken it very lightly. But when Vivian

hadn’t showed up in the next five days, he started to worry. He was afraid he would lose her. He

decided that she was too sexy to let go.

Therefore, he bought a gift and went straight to the school for Vivian.

However, Vivian refused to see him. He had no choice but to wait for her at the school gate after work

every day. He believed that she would eventually have to leave the campus to have some fun outside.

The bell rang.

The ringing suggested the night classes were over. Students were walking out of the school gates in

threes and fours.

Ben Hawk hid behind a big tree near the school gate, looking for Vivian among the students in the

bright light.

After a while, most students were gone. Finally Vivian emerged from the campus. Still in school

uniform, she was walking carefully hand in hand with another girl. She looked around with her beautiful

and alert eyes. She was obviously afraid that Ben was somewhere outside the school.

Ben Hawk put on a mocking smile and decided to wait a bit more. When Vivian and her classmate

approached, he suddenly stepped forward and stopped Vivian.

“Vivian, your parents asked me to pick you up for dinner at home.”

He put on a gentle smile.

“I…I’m not going home.”

Startled by the ambush, Vivian grabbed her classmate’s arm and turned around to run away.

Ben Hawk had been waiting for her for days. Of course he wouldn’t allow her to run away from him

today. He stopped her again and handed her the gift bag with a smile, “This is for you. Why don’t you

open it and see if you like it?”

Vivian instinctively flinched and kept a safe distance from him. She didn't want to have anything to do

with him now. But her eyes widened when she saw the logo on the gift bag.

Her classmate cried out with excitement when she saw the logo. She asked Ben Hawk, “Is it an Apple

IPhone?”

He nodded politely, “The latest IPhone.”

“Oh my, it costs more than a thousand dollars. Vivian, open it up and have a look.”

The girl urged her to take the gift.

They had been locked up in the classroom all day long. Thus a phone had become very important in

their tedious school life. It was now something they could show off to each other. The more expensive,

the better. The owner of the most expensive phone would become the center of attention among

classmates.

However, they were just students with no paid jobs. Most of them couldn’t afford expensive phones,

except several rich kids. Thus some of them often tended to feel that they would be looked down upon

with no expensive phones.

Vivian was one of them. She had tried to persuade Ben Hawk to buy her an expensive phone for many

times, but he had always rejected her. He had claimed that his salary was kept by Joey, thus he

couldn’t buy it even if he wanted to.

In fact, it was just one of his excuses, because his money had never been given to Joey. He had © 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

always disliked shopping with women. Besides, he had intended to save some money for future

endeavors. Of course he had been unwilling to spend it on Vivian. But it was different now. He had to

offer something she had wanted; otherwise he wouldn’t be able to keep her any longer.

Encouraged by her classmate, Vivian bit her lips and hesitated for a second before she finally took the

gift. She had always wanted such a phone anyway.

Ben Hawk was relieved and reassured when Vivian took his gift. He knew his plan had worked. He

smiled and said to Vivian’s classmate, “Miss, Vivian and I are going home for dinner with our parents.

Would you care to join us?”

He was implying that she should know better not to be a third wheel.

The girl instantly shook her head knowingly, “No thanks. I’d better go back to school now.”

Vivian actually wanted to go back to school with the girl, but the gift in her hands suggested otherwise.

It was rude to ignore someone who had just given you a gift.

It turned out that the gift had in away given Ben Hawk some leverage.

The plan was so successful. Ben Hawk was in no rush to hug Vivian now. Instead he put on a sad face,

“Vivian, I know I made a big mistake last time. I didn’t do it on purpose. It was your sister…she tried to

seduce me and drugged me. That’s why I was so rude with you because I couldn’t control myself. I’m

so sorry I hurt you. I’ve tried to explain it to you, but you’ve been avoiding me…”