Chapter 176: An Accidental Meeting
Lost in thought,Melanie walked mechanically to her hotel and thus failed to notice the person coming from the opposite side as she walked into the reception.
It was why, as a result, she collided with a person and the next minute, a loud crash echoed in the room. Her eyes widened.
"Oh my God! I was distracted! I’m so sorry!" Melanie gasped, stepping back hurriedly as the man looked at the bottled that had crashed to the floor in horror.
She glanced down and saw the mess: shards of glass, dripping puddles of amber-colored liquid, and several ruined small bottles.
"I’m sorry, I should have been looking!" the staff member said quickly, trying to mop up some of the mess with his sleeves while she shook her head, " No no. It was entirely my fault. Are you alright?"
Before the waiter could say anything more, an older man approached them, his eyebrows drawing together sharply. "What happened here?"
The boy straightened hastily and bowed, "It’s my fault, Sir. I’ll bring another order up for you right away and clean this up, immediately!," he stammered and raced away to get another bottle ready.
Melanie turned to the other man, intending to offer to reimburse the man but paused for a moment as she stared at his face. He looked familiar. Too familiar. But she didn’t think she’d met the man anywhere... Just as she was about to say something, she realized belatedly that the liquid had soaked into her clothes as well. Wonderful. She smelled like a bakery now. Because, as she now understood, the liquid in the bottles was probably vanilla... which Maniwa was famous for.
She watched as the waiter returned with a fresh batch of bottles and a mop for cleaning up and hurriedly stepped forward," Please let me reimburse you... both of you. That was entirely my fault."