The Woman From Hell

I pursed my lips and lowered my gaze. "You see now? This is the outcome of trying to reach out to him. Let's not go."

"He probably heard the last bit. Let's go wait and see," Shannon said as she looked at me. Her words were decisive, and I could not really reject her.

She dragged me to the restaurant. It felt like I was sitting on pins and needles in the private room.

We heard something outside the door from time to time and looked out, but no one opened the door even after a long time had passed. The anticipation in my eyes died again.

Just what was I expecting?

I asked myself as I sighed.

Hearing my sigh, Shannon came over and held my hand. "It's alright. Even if he doesn't come, we'll get our answer."

I nodded but did not say anything.

Time crawled by. Shannon and I were already done eating with only a little left of the last dessert but still, there was no movement outside the door.

Looking at the time on the phone, I said, "Let's go. It's late."

Shannon looked at the door. She was a little unwilling and muttered, "Let's wait just a bit more. Ten minutes, another ten minutes."

looked down

and I

say anything else now. She slowly stood up and picked up

as we were about to leave, the door suddenly opened and the waiter ushered someone in.

behind him was...

think he would come. I did not realize that this was really

My gaze stayed on Theo. The expression on my face might seem indifferent, but there was already a storm in my heart.

expression was calm. He glanced at Shannon lightly before fixing his gaze on me. "Tell me, what

tone was

Of course, I had many questions I wanted to ask, but I swallowed them all the

spoke. ent he

an awkward air in the

up and was prepared to leave after

called out

no other color in his eyes. His expression was so cold as he waited for

when I was about to open

you don't have to worry about anything here. So tell us the truth. Is it part of your plan

to ask the most, but it was also the answer I could

was both looking forward to it

His cold and expressionless appearance made my