Chapter 34: Tea!!
The owner turned slowly, eyes filled with regret and desperation, and looked at Miles—not the girls, not Ryan, but Miles—the only man in the room whose presence bent the mood like gravity.
"Sir... please. Spare me. This restaurant was my late father’s legacy... I swear, nothing like this will ever happen again."
Miles didn’t speak right away. He took a calm step forward, hands still in his pockets, his gaze fixed on the trembling manager who now stood pale and frozen like a man on trial.
"I’m not that cruel," Miles finally said, voice low but firm. "But your manager insulted my friends, took bribes from some outsider..."He glanced briefly at Ryan with a smirk. "And tried to throw us out of a place we were invited into, respectfully."
Then he turned his full attention to the manager. "You deal with him," he said to the owner. "I’ll take care of the rest."
The words hit like stone.
The manager, sweating and pale, collapsed to his knees. He had no idea who Miles really was. No background. No warning. No records.
But authority like that... doesn’t need introduction.
In the presence of that kind of quiet power, all the manager could do was stare at the floor and whisper, "I... I’m sorry..."
But the room had already moved on.
Miles didn’t look back at him. He simply returned to the table as if nothing had happened.