Chapter 83
Julie nodded and didn't say anything more.
But before leaving, she looked at Lila again.
Feeling her gaze, Lila looked up directly to meet her eyes and even smiled while raising an eyebrow at her.
Julie quickly looked away and left the private room.
Lila found the private room boring, so she leaned against the sofa and played with her phone.
Alexander caught a glimpse of her unhappy expression and said flatly, "Why aren't you drinking the juice?"
"I'm not thirsty."
"John kindly ordered it for you. Drink it."
She felt annoyed.
John ordered it for her. What did it have to do with him?
He even controlled whether she drank juice or not. If he loved controlling things so much, why didn't he control her breathing rate too?
Lila was unhappy, but she still picked up the juice Julie had brought. After taking a sip, she found it really didn't taste good and put it right back down.
Alexander frowned. "What's wrong?"
"It doesn't taste good."
"Since when are you so picky?"
John chuckled. "Come on, Alex, this is a place for drinking alcohol, not juice. It's not hard to understand if it doesn't taste good. You came here tonight to drink with us, so why do you keep talking to Little Rabbit and ignoring Charles and me?"
Only then did Alexander stop paying attention to Lila.
He and John and Charles started talking about business matters.
Lila sat to the side, still thinking about that Julie.
No, she was mainly thinking about the hundred thousand.
A hundred thousand was a lot of money. Even if she earned the highest driver's salary of five thousand a month, it would take twenty months to earn a hundred thousand—twenty months, almost two years.
Lila had pretty much figured out that Julie wasn't Alexander's ex-girlfriend.
First, Alexander was worth trillions. If they broke up, he wouldn't let an ex-girlfriend end up working as a server at the Velvet Lounge.
Second, the way Julie looked at Alexander was admiring yet restrained, respectful yet fearful—that wasn't how you looked at an ex-boyfriend.
Plus, she mentioned Celeste in front of Alexander...
Lila guessed that Julie might be Celeste's friend, and Alexander's help for her was probably also because of his first love, Celeste.
Thinking about this, she couldn't help but sigh inwardly.
Alexander was really good to Celeste, so good that he even extended that care to people associated with her.
Lila suddenly felt really annoyed.
She messaged her best friend: [Elara, I'm so annoyed. Don't ask why, I don't even know.]
Elara didn't reply right away.
She was probably still commuting home from work.
"How's Little Rabbit's driving practice going these past couple days?" John suddenly brought Lila into the conversation.
She snapped back to attention, looking up from her phone at him. "Pretty good, I guess."
John nodded seriously, then pressed further. "Do you think Alex teaches better or I teach better?"
That question seemed designed to stir things up.
Lila met his gaze and smiled. "Of course you teach better, Mr. Lucas. It's just a shame you only taught me for one day."
At those words, Alexander's expression immediately darkened.
The way he glared at Lila looked like he wanted to throw her into a meat grinder, grind her up, and feed her to the dogs.
But John was pleased. "Looks like Little Rabbit really appreciates me. I'm honored."
Lila's phone vibrated.
She stopped talking to John and looked down at the message.
Elara replied: [Aren't you just annoyed about that stuff between you and Mr. Sinclair? Did he bring up Celeste again? Are you unhappy because your husband keeps thinking about another woman?]
Lila: [No, I've always known he likes Celeste. If I was going to be annoyed about that, I would have been annoyed long ago.]
The key thing was that now any random person connected to Celeste would get treated so well by Alexander, but he treated her so badly.
Why?
She felt it was so unfair, and she felt suffocated!