At the main hall, Port of Eden Banquet
"Did you get the thing, what I have asked for?" Steven asked in a low grumbling voice.
"Yes. The security here is too tight. It would be really risky if we get caught. Second Brother, I think you should not..." Andrew tried to reason with Steven but he just set him down with a low growl.
"Cut the crap."
Andrew shut his mouth immediately. He was displeased but did not has the courage to retort.
Steven continued to give his blank stare as his attention was completely on the other table behind him. He could hear by his extremely sharp hearing that they were discussing about their initial plan had been changed.
Steven frowned. He was careful enough from the start and had blocked every passing wines to her. He had prepared to throw back everything to them when the time come.
But he did not want to ruin this party, he knew that this could damage the reputation of Adi in front of others. Thus he had planned everything too cautiously.
But now that je listened them saying their plan had changed, he panicked.
"Find her." He ordered Andrew in a commanding tone.
"Huhh... Find, whom?" Andrew was confused. Steven had said him to keep a watch on Macy. But that lady was too smart. She had definitely planned something nasty. She took the empty corridors to go and it was nearly impossible for him to follow her. He could not understand why Steven had taken an interest to her. However he could not say it out loud.
"Find the girl from yesterday." Steven was almost out of patience. He could not understand where did she disappear after talking to him. It was just been a short while. What exactly gad happened!
Andrew cursed god knew who in his mind. He could not rest for a while today, could he! He rushed to find Mantisha immediately. But after just taking a few steps, he saw her.
"There she is." Steven turned his face to his direction as Andrew breathed a sigh of relief to see Mantisha coming down from the stairs.
Mantisha were coming down in a hurry, she did not notice that dozens of pairs of eyes went back to her. She wore a sheer laced pure white costume, which had a shirt styled collar, long sleeves with buttons in the cuffs. The sheer lace had a front button cover and off to the shoulder georgette inner cover, which ended as the pista green sheer net pleated skirt started from her waist and it ended right above her knees. The breast pocket was stitched with logo lebel. Her hair was simply tied into a bun as a few strands of hairs were swinging lazily on her shoulder as she walked. It gave her the look of a refreshing, young, teenager girl.
"Wow wow, first it was a Princess's look Ms. Eberly's creation and a unparalleled crown, now it's a PRADA! With this innocent eyes of yours, you are going to kill the men here, you know." Evelyn appeared from nowhere as she teased Mantisha.
Mantisha giggled at her comment. "No, it's just, someone sprained her ankle and her wine got splashed over my dress. So I had to change."
"Splashing wine, spraining foot. Hmmhh... Sounds quite normal, right?" Evelyn winked at her with a strange expression.
Mantisha bit her lips. She did not tell this Ms. Perez about that resentful eyes of that lady or the waitress's strange behaviour she saw. Yet she was beaconing something. Could it be, she also sensed something was amiss.
She refused the idea of discussing something so uncertain with someone she just met. Although Ms. Evelyn looked like someone with good intentions, but she could not trust her so easily. If she told someone these things like gossips, even without any bad intentions, she might harm her.
She did not find any pinhole cameras or flaws there. Even if there was anything wrong, it could not harm her anymore. Mantisha thought it would be best to ignore the matter for now.
"Let's go and propose a toast to the inviters of today. I am here by myself, it would not be good if I don't offer a toast to them." Mantisha blinked her eyes innocently, like she was pleading to Evelyn to go with her.
Evelyn sighed as she thought that 'cuteness' was her nemesis. She even could not deny a girl simply blinking to act innocent.
"Not again." She shook her head, still grabbed Mantisha's arm to go with her.
A few meters away, Steven's face got darker with each words reported by Andrew.
'This, does not seem so light. What were those ladies planning!'
Steven ringed the bell in his table to get some wine, when the waiter came,he instructed something to him. Then asked Andrew to go to a relatively vacant and empty place.
After a while, he suddenly got up from his chair and went towards the table next to their one. That waiter also came to serve drinks to the table. With a swift move of his leg, the waiter stumbled and all the drinks from his tray were splashed towards the ladies in the table.
Lily was the first one to scream. "You Blind moron! What did you do!"
The waiter apologized immediately to them. He did not understand why the Man beside him tricked him. However, he did not dare to offend any of them. If one of these people was offended, in one way or other,he would be doomed.
Lily thought she would ask Albert for the first dance, but her dress was completely ruined.
Daisy, Jenifer, Macy and other two were thinking the same. They were just going to scold the waiter, but suddenly a low pitched deep voice was heard.
"It was my bad to stumble. As everybody knows, I can not see. But I did not expect these ladies here would be this harsh."
Only then the ladies noticed Steven. He stood there with his usual poker face and nonchalant expression on. But the aura around him was terrifying. Ladies there were lost their words.
Lily immediately gulped her saliva. How did she offend this Second Young Master Wilson two times in a day! Although this time he was at fault, but she could not possibly utter that, right?
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