Chapter 20: Catch Me If You Can
"Why do you look so sulky? I got that red wine for you as you requested," Xander asked, totally confused as to why Yera didn’t look happy at all.
Yera didn’t answer. Instead, she just opened the wine bottle and drank the expensive wine directly from it. Xander was flabbergasted by this woman’s oddball behavior, so he carefully asked, "Don’t take this the wrong way, but are you perhaps on your period?"
Yera burst out laughing and drank more.
No, she wasn’t on her period, but her pride was nagging at the back of her mind. She had always been in competition with Xander for years, and she had often ended up losing. Fine, she had come to terms with the fact that he was better at her when it comes to personality. The man was evidently a social butterfly while she was an ice witch.
But how come he was still better at her even at singing?
’What’s with you? Get over it! You’re no longer competing with him. He’s your ally now, remember?’ Her inner-self snapped. She realized how bad her mood was right now. Especially after she saw him smiling at everyone, including those women, who were obviously drooling over him.
"Geez, what is wrong with me?" She murmured as she gulped more wine from the bottle.
Xander was taken aback and looked at her with his mouth agape. ’How did Bernard fall for her? She’s totally nuts!’ He frowned as he watched Yera downing almost the whole bottle of wine on her own.
’Yeah? Well, how come you like her too?’ Another voice from his subconscious jeered at him. Xander quickly brushed it off.
"Hey, are you planning to drink it all by yourself?" He asked as he offered his glass to Yera, gesturing for her to at least give him a taste of his reward. After all, it was he who had to sing in front of the crowd, something he did not normally do, just to get that bottle of wine.
Yera poured him some of the wine and answered nonchalantly, "Here. But you saw me drinking directly from the bottle. So it probably has my saliva in it."