"Can you stop frustrating my life?" Ryan requested and Evie shook her head.
"I am here to make your life a living hell." She responded with a smirk as they served them their meals. The Steward was smiling at their cute banter. He poured different drinks into different cups as he did not know which one they would prefer.
"So, I heard you are thirty-two years old. Damn, sweetheart, you're so old."
Ryan's fork hit the tip of his plate violently as he gave her a hard glare; he wasn't expecting her to say that to his face. He didn't like it whenever his age was made fun of.
"I am thirty-two, not fifty-two." He retorted. Evie shrugged.
"I know and I said thirty-two, not fifty-two but do you know what? If you had impregnated a girl when you were eighteen years old, do you know how old your child would have become? He or she would have turned fourteen this year. Wow, that would have been fantastic." Evie continued teasing him and she was enjoying the annoyed look on his face as he forced himself to continue eating.
"It's not too late. I can still impregnate a girl and you can be the first person to bear my first child." He responded.
"I reject it! Over my dead body." Evie reacted quickly and unplanned. She smiled and adjusted her seat.
"Let's change the topic."
"You don't really need to act all lovey-dovey with me when we are in private, it's not necessary," Ryan informed her.
"But I wish to. So please, let me continue using it, okay? Thank you." She concluded without waiting for her response.
Ryan stared at her as she continued eating. He was a bit curious about her but he preferred to keep shut about it and continued eating. After they were done, he picked up his iPad from the corner of the table and walked to the sitting room after. Evie stood up and also wanted to go and meet her but then Shaft's call came in and her heart went wide.
She cleared her throat and looked around suspiciously before going to her room to answer the call. She ensured that the door was locked before answering.
"How are you doing, my dear?" Shaft greeted her. Evie could literally see the smirk he had on his face because she had been long enough with him to know what he was like.
"Shaft, I have told you not to call me like this anymore. We are strategizing against a man that is two times more powerful than us, don't you get it? He could be tracking my phone calls or anything and if this mission is to fail, you will be blamed for it." She warned him with cruelty in her voice.
"Calm down, baby girl. Don't go around bossing me. You are not a JJC at this job so you should know better than to leave your phone elsewhere for people to play with. Anyway, what's the update?"
Evie sighed and rolled her eyes. Her boss didn't care about her safety at this point until Ryan decides to pluck out her eyes and feed them to the birds of the air.
"I got to know that he has a secret room that nobody goes into. No one is allowed there so no one knows what it is there." She reported and she heard him gasp.
"That must be where the treasure is. Good job, Evie. Now, I need you to find out what can be inside and make sure that you are not caught. We don't want to make silly mistakes."
"Well, with the way you are calling nonstop, I am bound to make one." She answered and Shaft laughed.
"Don't worry, we will sort things out. Don't stray out of the plan and take good care of yourself. Your siblings are in great hands." He intentionally added that to make her go wild and ended the call before she could respond.
Evie angrily dialed the number again but it was unreachable so she had to give up reluctantly. She came out of her room and tried to change her facial expression again. She rushed down the stairs and sneaked behind Ryan's back. She wanted to tickle his left ear with her breath but got the worst treatment of her life.
Ryan's hand snapped out from nowhere…unexpectedly and gripped her tiny neck, getting her by surprise. She yelped and punched him to release the tension pressed on her neck. She succeeded in doing that but not without coughing out.
She glared at him from behind and walked angrily to his front.
"You almost choked me, sweetheart."
Ryan glanced at her with no concern in his eyes, he was scrolling through a few pictures.
Evie sat beside him with pouty lips, expecting an apology.
"I thought that I was going to be attacked. Moreover, have you been taking Karate classes? Your punch was quite a punch, I wasn't expecting my girlfriend to be such a fighter." Ryan replied.
Evie shifted closer to him, inhaling his scent. She brought his mouth closer to his ear.
"Do you want to see how strong I am?" She asked seductively.
Ryan looked up from his iPad but not at her, his brows were furrowed as he allowed her words to settle deep in.
"If you want to seduce me, try harder. Take classes on how to sound sonorously. That's why we have YouTube. You sound like a squeaking mouse and it's terrible. Rather than catching my attention, it's making my ear frequency go stupid." He replied. Evie felt as if someone had poured a bucket of cold water on her. Her seductive smile was completely wiped off as she bit her tongue and scratched the tip of her nose. She withdrew herself.
"That's because you are actually stupid." She mumbled, praying that he wouldn't hear that as it came out due to anger. Didn't he know how to go soft for girls? He was the King of embarrassing innocent people. How was Mandarin able to handle him or was he intentionally behaving this way to get rid of her? Haha, in his dreams.
Her eyes darted toward the picture that he was looking at and her eyes widened, she got closer to him and stared at it. She locked eyes with Ryan.
"Burnt Gold?" She asked in shock.