Chapter 258: Exclusive Invitation
** Eli **
"I see there’s something tastier than brunch going on here." May leaned over the salad bar and regarded the two new arrivers with a meaningful expression. Clearly, she had already reconstructed the whole scene of their love history in her head based on two sentences alone. "So my prediction in the early days wasn’t far off — you two are really living the best life of kinky dreams together! Don’t forget to thank me someday for all the help I pushed on you, Harper."
Hmm? Help? What help? Suspiciously, Eli looked over to Harper, wondering what reference it was that he missed, though his suspicion only grew stronger when his girlfriend grinned without explaining.
"May, you’re starting to talk like me and raising your voice too much with that K word." Chelsea came up and pinned her friend with a warning look. "Be a little more sensitive! Look at these two lovebirds all dressed up for a romantic date! Surely they were talking about a different type of stunt that’s too innocent for your unholy mind to imagine. Right Harper?"
Harper replied with an elbow to Chelsea’s side, and the three gossip girls giggled together.
"We came from a tailor’s appointment," Harper said when the joking was done. "Wait, no Chelsea, don’t give me that look. It wasn’t for a wedding dress or anything! Eli is getting me ready for a summer party at the end of the month, and apparently I need a crazy formal evening dress for the occasion. So that appointment took us all morning and then some. Now I’m famished and can probably finish off the whole buffet station myself."
"Don’t do that, you still need to fit in your crazy formal evening dress in a few weeks." May gave her a friendly reminder.
Chelsea, on the other hand, suddenly looked pensive. "A formal summer party at the end of the month? It’s not the one at Garden Royale, is it?"
"It is. The finance district’s annual gala," Eli replied when Harper darted him a confirming look. He hadn’t given his girlfriend the full details about the venue yet, though apparently Chelsea was already in the loop. Expectedly so, he supposed, for someone who was also working in finance.