"Oh?"
My blur vision erases to see a tipsy Niklaus stumble inside. Scratch tipsy, he was actually drunk..
I blinked my eyes rapidly, getting up from the chair I was sitting on.
He looked at me a in a surprised manner, half startled and half shocked, eyebrows scrunched, eyes flickering from me to the laid dinner table until I saw realisation spread on his face.
He wasn't late. He wasn't busy with work.
He had simply forgotten...
However, for some reason, the sting seemed to be less about him forgetting about us having dinner together and more about the girl standing next to him.
Blonde and tall and petite, hands crossed across her chest, eyes checking me out from head to toe, and annoyance in her eyes.
The smell of alcohol raked from both of them.
"Should we continue, Nicolas?" She
