"Can you reach him?" Of course, Daisy didn't imagine that it would turn out like this. She thought that they had talked it all out and made up. But it seemed that not only were things not fine between them, they made their situation even worse.
"No. His phone must be off." Leena shook her head, she had a very frustrated look on her face.
"I just told you to have a nice talk with him! Now what the hell did you do?" Daisy's brows were deeply frowned, and she looked at Edward, who was calmly sitting there. He must know Duke's temper, after all, Duke was his brother.
"Why are you looking at me? I wasn't even there." Edward was not very happy in the first place, and especially when he saw Zemo, he was in a worse mood.
"You can stop looking for him. There's no use. He left the bar." Thinking of Duke just leaving like that, Belinda felt bitter all over again. She snapped her fingers to the waiter beside them. Did they really think they could stop her from drinking just by taking the bottle from her hand? Well, she could always ask the waiter to bring her some more booze, right?
The waiter quickly walked towards them, lowered his head and then asked Belinda, "Miss, what can I do for you?"
"Give me a bottle of Absolut." In Belinda's mind, she could only drown her sorrow in liquor as strong as Absolut vodka. Only then could she forget about what happened between her and Duke earlier, and be happy again.
"Please don't listen to her! We don't need any more alcohol, but thank you anyway! She's had too much already." Daisy stopped the waiter without a second thought. She didn't think this was a right place for Belinda to stay, considering her state right now.
"Daisy, are you my friend or not? I haven't had that much! Waiter, get me a drink!" Belinda was always eager to do well in everything, and she wouldn't easily admit defeat. But now she seemed fragile. Daisy hadn't seen her like this before. And this also broke Daisy's heart.
"Come on! Let's get her home first." Edward stood up. His good-looking brows were furrowed this whole time.
"If we have to, we have to. Zemo, I'm sorry that you had to see this mess. We need to leave now. Let's get together and have dinner some other time. My treat." Daisy smiled apologetically to Zemo. It was really bad timing, they had just met, then this mess happened. So she couldn't help but feel a bit guilty.
"That's alright. I'll be staying here in the city for a while. Here's my number, you can call me when you have the time! Take care of your friend." Even if she hadn't said anything, Zemo would feel awkward anyway, stuck in this kind of situation. So he just took out a business card and gave it to Daisy.
"Okay, good-bye!" Daisy helped Belinda stand up. After she quickly drank that much alcohol just now, the smell of booze on her was intensified.
"Take care, Mr. Ling." Edwardmomentarily ignored Zemo's possible feelings towards his little wife. Besides, Zemo didn't seem that bad, at least, he seemed like the kind of man he'd like to be friends with.
"Good-bye!" Zemo smiled bitterly to himself. So this was the man who had consistently been on Daisy's mind when she was at JC Military Academy? It seemed so, after all, they were happily married already.
Duke drove the car at a dangerously high speed. This rarely happened. Because usually, he was a calm man who could restrain himself. The love between him and Belinda was easily broken by Rachel, as if their love wasn't deep enough. No. Maybe they had never truly been in love after all, and that was why their love could be so easily shattered.
Thinking of Belinda's carelessness just now made him angrily honk the horn. How could she be so indifferent? How could she not care about his feelings at all? Did she know how he felt when he saw her dancing sexily with another man? How shocked he was? How mad he was? And more importantly, how disappointed he was?He had thought that no matter how mad she was at him, they just went out to have some drinks. So once he got the text from Leena, he knew what was going on, what was going to happen. Because he was worried that Belinda would drink too much.
But what he didn't imagine was that there was such a big surprise waiting for him there. Yes, it was indeed a surprise. If he hadn't seen that, he would never know that there was even that side to her. But after the initial surprise came the fury. At that moment, he even wished that he could pluck out all the eyes of those fools staring at his wife. But what did she do? Well, she just completely neglected his feelings.
After a quick yank on the steering wheel and the sharp sound of screeching brakes, a black Maybach suddenly stopped by the curb. A slender figure tiredly leaned back in his seat, and his black eyes were tightly closed. Finally, Duke sighed. Then he reached out to grab the phone that he had angrily thrown on the passenger seat earlier.
There was always an uneasy feeling that haunted him while he was driving. So he turned on his phone in the end, no matter how unwilling he was. But after seeing allthose missed calls, he felt heartbroken all over again. Because those missed calls were all from Leena and Edward. There was not a single one from Belinda. It seemed that he had overestimated himself again. He had thought that when she was not angry anymore, at least she would worry about him and give him a phone call. But he didn't expect that he would be disappointed again. He guessed that in her mind, he really meant nothing.
Dialing the phone number he knew by heart, he moved the phone to his ear. His call was picked up in no time, and an angry voice shouted in his ear,
"Where the hell are you right now? And what the hell happened? Belinda is drunk out of her mind, and she won't let us take her home! We don't know what to do right now! For God's sake, just come back and pick her up!" Edward angrily shouted at his phone, a furious look on his face. He was so mad at his friend right now. What was he thinking? Leaving his own wife in the bar like that?
"So you're still there? I will be back right away." Duke gnashed his teeth, quickly started his car and drove back there without thinking. No matter how mad he was at Belinda, he still could not completely stop worrying about her.
We're at the front of the bar. Hurry up! Edward quickly hung up the call. It seemed that no matter who, once they feel in love with someone, they would all become this jumpy over every little things that happened. But much to his surprise, even Duke, who was always calm and distant to every woman, still couldn't escape this.