Pervert

This was the first time in Ayan's life that he was stood up by someone. He was the son of a filthy rich investor of the Entertainment Industry in the capital and so it was highly predictable that he was always treated with love and patience.

To think the young master of this rich family being stood up by someone is quite a rare view.

But Ayan wasn't angry. He was somewhat enjoying the 3rd coffee he ordered. He was sitting inside a private room waiting for a person who was already very late for the meeting and still didn't show up. Suddenly his phone rang.

"Hey, bro! Why call me?"

"Cut the crap. Did the lady come?"

"There's no lady here bro. I am sitting on the table of the private room alone sipping my 3rd coffee of the day."

Alex twitched his brows.

"What do you mean? They didn't come?"

"Nope."

Alex was a bit taken aback. He was supposed to meet the author 'Ai' today. Because of some company issues, he was stuck badly at the office by his work before the exact meeting time. Though he thought of canceling the meeting today, his email got no response from the author 'Ai'. So, there was only one choice left for him. He has to send an executive as his replacement. At this time, all of his colleagues were not free to help him in this regard and so he was kinda depressed.

But then came the life-saver Ayan, his best friend.

So instead of going himself, he sent Ayan to receive them and apologize on his behalf as Ayan was the only person who came voluntarily to help him. So, somehow the thing was settled.

It was already past an hour of their fixed meeting time. It looks like they are not gonna show up today. Alex smirked when he realized his friend was being stood up like a fool.

"Looks like they are not gonna show up. The lady texted she is sick," he lied.

"Sick or not, pay for my coffee bill. I was craving for some coffee anyway."

"Don't you have any work to do, huh?"

"Don't kid me. Why do I need to work when my dad's rich?"

"Hell, dude. You're never gonna change," Alex laughed. Though he knew this was just an excuse because all of their friends knew that Ayan left his rich dad's house and now living on his own.

"I am gonna leave now because I have some urgent work to do here. I have to return to Seoul tomorrow."

"What? You are already leaving?"

"Can't stay here forever to run your errands you know."

"Hey, I just badly needed you this time. How can I know that they will be the one to ditch us?"

"Yeah, of course, your clients are just like you. Quite relatable."

This little. This brat is acting haughty just because he is in the dark right now.

"Who the heck I was waiting for though? At least I have the right to know that."

"No one special. Just someone you wouldn't regret to meet," Alex made it sound more puzzling.

Little did Ayan know, Alex was talking about his favorite Author 'Ai'. Ayan was a regular reader of her short stories, especially those with action genres. He even did some back research about her and found an old account of 'Ai'. This account was also created by the author 'Ai' when she was a school-going girl and posted her stories which were written then.

Alex knew all these. He wanted to meet 'Ai' for some business but besides that, somehow, he wanted to click a selfie with her, if possible, just to make his best friend jealous.

Looks like Ayan's luck was not in his support too. He just missed the chance to meet his favorite author when Alex made such a good opportunity for him and in addition waited two hours for nothing. He kinda felt pity for him.

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Ayan left the private room after waiting for another half an hour since he decided to have his lunch here. Crossing the reception, his eyes caught a person, a lady. She was wearing a business suit specially tailored that fit her body very well. She had a great figure. Ayan was facing her backside.

Ayan wasn't a pervert. But he did admire the beauty as well as beautiful women whenever his eyes caught them. So out of curiosity, he had a little urge to see that woman's face.

But before he could take a little glance, the lady passed the reception and went towards the private rooms.

Ayan threw his head a little backward and chuckled a bit, twitching his eyebrows. Maybe there was something wrong with the coffee to make him act this sneaky towards a mere unknown lady with a great figure, he thought jokingly. Then he walked out of the restaurant humming a long-forgotten 90's famous rock song.

Little did he know the cute receptionist sitting behind the table, blushed hard seeing that handsome ikemen-like expression on his face which he made a few seconds ago.

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Kiera asked the receptionist and hurriedly went into the private room, but the room was empty. The waiter passing by saw her and informed her that the guest of this room had just left a few minutes ago.

At this moment, Kiera wanted to curse Annabelle. That brat didn't even bother to inform her that there was a meeting arranged by the chief editor. Today she was just coincidentally going through Anna's messages as she knew very well how careless Anna is and found that seen message of Mr. Alex. Though she scolded Anna enough before coming here but after realizing the situation now, she thought that she should have disciplined her a bit more.

The day before yesterday, she broke up. Yesterday, her boss called and said she needs to make preparations for a business trip. And now, she is here skipping her lunch for a meeting and maybe the person she was supposed to meet on Anna's behalf is gone after waiting for almost 2 hours pathetically.

This suck. The whole day sucks. She sat inside the empty private room and ordered a coffee. She mumbled, "I am gonna teach you a good lesson today Anna."

However, her thoughts were interrupted by the waiter.

"Ma'am, here's your coffee."

"Thanks," she smiled a little.

"This is quite a surprise but the sir who was waiting for you here also ordered the same coffee and he drank that coffee three times."

"I see, maybe he also has the same taste," Kiera answered without giving it much thought.

Chapter end