Chapter 149
All the while Michelle and Alexander talked, the tavern guests were observing them, and the old tavern lady kept bringing drinks to them.
Since the day Alexander had returned to the tavern, they had to be on their tiptoes. Alexander’s twisted smile was horrifying, and no one dared to annoy him, so even when he went to the room on the top floor of the tavern, they just talked quietly so the noise wouldn’t bother him.
Every single one of the guests knew who Alexander was and what he was capable of, and not a single one wanted to face his wrath.
Luckily, for a whole two days, he didn’t come down and just stayed in the room, giving them some space to breathe, but the moment he came down after Michelle entered the tavern, dread overcame the guests once again. The only thing that soothed their nerves at least a little was that Alexander’s smile was no longer twisted.
But just the fact that he was smiling was enough to make them tremble in their boots. They had never seen him like that before, so it horrified them.
And that wasn’t the only horrifying thing.
Since the moment Michelle had first entered the tavern, most of them had thought she was just a naive little girl. The smarter ones just thought she was a young lady from a big family who had some brains but was arrogant, so she easily let her guard down. But after seeing the cold and dangerous smile Michelle directed at Alexander, their blood ran cold once again.
Who could have thought that someone who was smiling so sweetly just a moment before could suddenly show such a fear-inducing expression?
The only ones who weren’t surprised by Michelle’s expression were the old tavern lady and the scarred man Michelle had spoken with the first day she had come to the tavern. Both of them knew that Michelle wasn’t as naive as she portrayed herself to be.