Chapter 43 - 43: Dinner Part 2
Daniella timidly sat back on her chair and watched as the maid replace her plate 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 Daniella sat back on her chair, she asked, "So, what do you think?"
Daniella"s hand frost in the air, the last thing she wanted was to send off her meat in the air, who knows, this time it might land 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 playfully laughed and Daniella could not help but, mirror her smile.
"Sure. I will search and if I find one, I will inform you," after Daniella said those words, the elder woman"s laugh went louder.
The elder man lowered his cutlery and wiped his lips with a napkin. With a serious face, he turned at Daniella.
"Ms. Chen."
Daniella 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?"
Daniella 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, Daniella glared 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.
Daniella 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.
Daniella 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."
Daniella 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 glared at him.
And her expression suddenly changed as she sifted her sight to Daniella next to her.
"Daniella, do you have a family?"
Daniella shook her head, not bothering to speak since her mouth was full.
"Do you plan to have one?" the elder woman curiously asked.
Daniella 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."
Daniella 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 plan, Daniella 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 Evan coming back, he had a new clean shirt on while his face was looking down to his phone.
Daniella 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 Daniella"s hand.
"You are still young."
Daniela 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.
"Daniella said she doesn"t have a plan to get married," Matthew answered his question with his hand stretching to take the mushrooms from Daniella"s plate.
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 him laughing.
"What"s funny?" the elder man asked Evan.
"Nothing, can"t I laugh?" 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 Daniella"s plate and exchanging it with the meat from his plate.
"Matthew, why are you taking Ms. Chen"s food?" he asked, wondering why Daniella 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 appet.i.te 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 Daniella"s answer wouldn"t be too personal.
Daniella 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 doork.n.o.b. Then one night, she forgot and got her karma," with his mouth full, Matthew laughed.
Daniella"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 from complaining, 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 Daniella"s low voice apologizing while Matthew was laughing uncontrollably.
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 Daniella and s.n.a.t.c.hed the fork from her hand, he dropped it on the table and dragged her out of the dining room.