Chapter 297: Stood up(?)
"Maybe she forgot about the date and remembered later, so she is late." He made yet another excuse for her with a sigh.
The waitress appeared for the umpteenth time. "Sir, may I get you anything to drink?"
"No." He gave the same answer he had given the past a hundered or so times that she had asked. Couldn’t she tell that he was in a bad mood? If he wanted a drink, he would certainly ask for one! Would she need to bug him?!
It was not that he had not noticed the kind of look she had been giving him every time she made a trip to the private room. It was as though she was pitying him for being stood up and wanted to replace his woman.
She was lucky that he was not the kind of man to throw his temper at anything that appeared in his line of sight. Otherwise, he would have yelled at her before shouting for the manager and having her fired.
He glanced at the bouquet at the side. The petals had started drying up again. Some were even falling off. After having the waitress sprinkle cold water on them again, he glanced at the time with a sigh. It was almost midnight. Would she really come?
It was hard to believe that he might have been stood up. All this while, he had wanted to call her and ask why she had not arrived but every time he was about to dial her number, he was afraid that she would not answer. Even worse, she might just answer and scold him for being delusional and thinking that she would be willing to go on a date with him.
"But if she didn’t want to come, why did she agree?" He asked the air, and the answer landed right into his brain.
He had given her no choice. He had pulled a prank on her. At the time, he had stupidly thought that it was excellent but now, it was the most stupid thing he had ever done.
He had made her agree to the terms of the bet: if she won, she could instruct him to do anything, and if he won, she would go on a date with him. Once she had agreed, he had said, "I bet that you cannot stab Lanni."
He could not forget the shock in her eyes, how madly she had scolded him, then the cringe on her face when she realized that she had been pranked.