Chapter 439 - 8.39 You Will Tell Me
The two women were, unmistakably, alive and kicking.
Lu Yizhou took a seat on Luca’s left, just like yesterday, his head full of brewing storm. Either he was hallucinating everything last night, or the two women here were really a ghost just like 666 had claimed, Lu Yizhou couldn’t think of any other explanation.
Ji Yan gingerly sat himself opposite Lu Yizhou, all the while giving Luca a tight-lipped smile. Gone was his sunny and carefree disposition, and in its place was only caution and wariness. He was the most experienced one among them all, no one knew more than him how unusual and uncommon Diana’s death was. "Good morning, Master Luca."
"Good morning, Lady Ji Yan," Luca replied smoothly with a smile on his face. "Did you have a good night’s sleep?"
The mention of sleep seemed to make Ji Yan even more guilty. "Yes, I did..."
Surprisingly this time, Olivia plopped herself down on the only empty seat beside Ji Yan, scowling. Leaving Ailín to fend for himself on the furthest corner. Evidently, she still had not gotten over their argument earlier.
Lu Yizhou sighed, somehow feeling like he was seeing a children’s squabble; or maybe he was just that old mentally. The two women could wait until dinner, for now he focused all of his attention on Luca. Was it only his imagination or did his complexion look a little more ruddy this morning? Luca was not gray and brittle like Baines, yet somehow he still gave off that hushed and deathly vibes that was really suitable as the master of a haunted mansion. But this morning, he seemed normal. Too normal, even.
They did not need to wait long for the food to arrive. Lu Yizhou had prepared himself for the reappearance of fingers or a bowl of worm, that’s why he was slightly surprised to see that the breakfast was completely normal. Each of them had a plate of bagels, a few pieces of sizzling bacon, sausage, a poached egg, decorated with tiny red tomatoes and juicy green leaves.
He could hear Ozzie gulping beside him. ’I don’t need to eat because I am a familiar but this smells really good meow!’
Lu Yizhou had automatically grown wary of things that looked deceiving on the surface, but no matter from which angle he scrutinized it, the food seemed ordinary. He frowned, a nagging feeling tugging on the back of his mind. Why did everything look so normal today? It really made his gut twist as he kept expecting something to happen only to be bamboozled when his guesses were proved wrong.
In front of him, Ji Yan and Olivia started eating. Olivia had been the one who was unaffected by Luca’s spell last night but she did not look like she noticed something was off as she chewed on the bacon. Hmm, Lu Yizhou groused inwardly, so breakfast would be normal but then dinner would be problematic?