Chapter 43 - 43: Dinner Part 2


    Danie timidly sat back on her chair and watched as the maid rece her te with a new dish, Evan left the living room while Matthew went quiet after she discreetly pinched his arm before going back to her chair.


    But unlike everyone in the room, the elder woman was not aware of what had just happened.


    As soon as Danie sat back on her chair, she asked, "So, what do you think?"


    Danie''s hand frost in the air, thest thing she wanted was to send off her meat in the air, who knows, this time it mightnd on the face of the elder Su.


    "Do you have another grandson aside from Matthew and Mr. Evan?"


    The old woman shook her head while a faint smile was on her lips.


    "No, but if you are interested to be part of this family, I can maybe adopt one that matches your taste," the elder woman yfullyughed and Danie could not help but, mirror her smile.


    "Sure. I will search and if I find one, I will inform you," after Danie said those words, the elder woman''sugh went louder.


    The elder man lowered his cutlery and wiped his lips with a napkin. With a serious face, he turned at Danie.


    "Ms. Chen."


    Danie looked at the elder Su, seeing his face dimming gravely, she immediately swallowed the meat she shoved in her mouth that hasn''t been chewed.


    "Yes, Mr. Su," she snappily replied.


    "How did you and Matthew meet?"


    Danie momentarily looked at Matthew and back to the elder Su.


    "I met him at the bar I worked before in London," she replied straight.


    "Bar? What was your work?"


    "stripper," Matthew answered.


    Hearing that, Danie red at him, a voice in her head was urging her to stab Matthew''s tongue with her fork.


    "Let me correct him. I am an entertainer and not a stripper."


    The elder man rose an eyebrow, "what''s the difference?" He asked with a bit of suspicion and sarcasm.


    Danie sighed; still shaky on how people misunderstand it.


    "I only sing in the bar - with my clothes on." She replied straight, looking at the elder man''s dubious eyes.


    "Why did you stop?" the elder man curiously asked.


    Danie courageously met his eyes, "Matthew said he will support me if I stop, so I did and that''s the reason why I moved in with him."


    Matthew on the side also nodded when his grandfather turned to look at him, "she''s right. The next morning, she came to my apartment with her luggage and rice cooker."


    Danie continued with her food, not feeling insulted by the Elder man''s cold eyes.


    The elder woman secretly kicked her husband''s feet under the table, finding his questions inappropriate.


    When her husband looked at her, the elder woman discreetly red at him.


    And her expression suddenly changed as she sifted her sight to Danie next to her.


    "Danie, do you have a family?"


    Danie shook her head, not bothering to speak since her mouth was full.


    "Do you n to have one?" the elder woman curiously asked.


    Danie swallowed her food and stretched a hand to grab the water on the table.


    She took a gulp and swung her head to look at the old woman.


    "Does frozen martini count as family?" she asked with a straight face.


    The elder woman smiled, and shake her head.


    "I mean babies."


    Danie nodded, she pouted her lips on the side and as she sliced the meat she replied, "maybe. I was thinking of adopting a tarsier. I have some horses but, they are too big for my apartment so a tarsier or maybe I will just settle with my horse it really depends on the process and my budget." As she finished narrating her n, Danie chewed her food.


    Her jaw frost seeing the Su family looking at her with disturbance.


    Realizing that she went overboard, she awkwardly giggled.


    "I was kidding," then she turned at the confused elder woman next to her.


    "Marriage is not on my bucket list so," the rest of her words were shoved down her throat after her eyes caught Evaning back, he had a new clean shirt on while his face was looking down to his phone.


    Danie blinked, for a moment her mind that has decided to settle for a frozen martini hesitated for a moment.


    "That''s a shame, I think you will look beautiful in a white dress," saying that with disappointment, the old woman held Danie''s hand.


    "You are still young."


    Dani nodded, awkwardly thinking whether she should pull her hand or not.


    "Why? What is happening?" Evan asked as he jammed the phone in his pants and sat back on his precious chair.


    "Danie said she doesn''t have a n to get married," Matthew answered his question with his hand stretching to take the mushrooms from Danie''s te.


    Evan rose an eyebrow, then his eyes shone with amus.e.m.e.nt while a faint chuckle let out from his lips, "Yeah, right," saying that, his head shook with amus.e.m.e.nt.


    The elder man who had finished just his food looked at his grandson Evan after he heard himughing.


    "What''s funny?" the elder man asked Evan.


    "Nothing, can''t Iugh?" Evan said, putting a napkin over his shirt to make sure that no meat will fly on his shirt.


    "You can but, why?"


    The smile Evan had on his lips faded, face turned serious as he met his grandfather''s eyes.


    "Nothing grandpa," then his cold eyes turned to Matthew next to him, the man was taking all the mushroom from Danie''s te and exchanging it with the meat from his te.


    "Matthew, why are you taking Ms. Chen''s food?" he asked, wondering why Danie was not stopping Matthew.


    After swallowing his food, Matthew replied, "She hates mushroom and that woman doesn''t allow me to take her mushroom for free so I am exchanging it with my meat, we do this all the time" then, Matthew shoved another spoon full of mushroom in his mouth.


    Evan sighed and picked up his fork, his appetite suddenly disappeared.


    "Ms. Chen, how did you two end up living in the same apartment?" Evan meant to ask her privately but, his mind was urging him to ask her now, in front of his cousin. Somehow, he wished that Danie''s answer wouldn''t be too personal.


    Danie met Evan''s eyes, then looked at Matthew for a moment.


    "He said he will support my school if I live with him and just to be clear, we were roommates, not a couple."


    Matthew suddenly snickered, with his mouth full of food he spoke, "she''s right. That woman is so sly that she attached a barbed wire with electricity to her doorknob. Then one night, she forgot and got her karma," with his mouth full, Matthewughed.


    Danie''s face wrinkled with irritation; she bit her lips while her feet under the table kicked Matthew''s legs to shut him out.


    Evan groaned silently after he felt someone''s feet switching to kick his legs.


    Suppressing himself fromining, he called out the owner of the feet.


    "Ms. Chen, that''s my legs," as soon as he said that, the feet kicking his leg stopped, followed by Danie''s low voice apologizing while Matthew wasughing uncontrobly.


    Evan turned to his cousin Matthew on the side, "When are you going back to London?"


    Matthew''s jaw frost after hearing that, then, he took a deep breath and smiled at his cousin.


    "I am staying here for good."


    "Really?" Evan said with doubt.


    "Yes,"


    "Good, we could use a janitor in the office."


    Hearing that, Matthew lowered his fork and knife on the table and got up, "Oops, I forgot, I have a return ticket to London next week. I got to go and pack." Saying that in a rush, Matthew shuffled towards Danie and snatched the fork from her hand, he dropped it on the table and dragged her out of the dining room.