Daniel yelled angrily, “I know you’re confused. Come over and take a look at what I’ve become. After that, we can speak.
Doris was bewildered.
What has he become? Did he grow three heads and six arms overnight?
Daniel hung up.
She was compelled to tell the driver, “Can you take me to the Struyria Banquet?”
“Sure.”
The driver made a U-turn at the intersection.
Ten minutes later, the cab stopped in front of the Struyria Banquet.
Before getting out of the cab, Doris paid the fare with her phone.
She grabbed her handbag and swiftly headed to the Tea Room on the first floor.
Daniel sat in silence at the table by the window. He dressed in a light gray suit and gave off a tidy, gentlemanly appearance.
She approached him and was about to occupy the seat across from him.
She saw the white bandage covering his forehead at this point. Startled, she wondered, “Mr. Daniel, what happened? Are you hurt?”
Daniel rebuked the woman angrily, “How dare you ask me that? It’s one thing for you to hit me, but you have the nerve to accuse me of harassing you?”
Doris was taken aback. She scowled and exclaimed, “What!? What do you mean by that? I hit you and wrongly accused you. What did I do to you?”
“What did you do to me? Can’t you remember what you have done?” Daniel was furious.
After pausing for a moment, she inquired, “Did…something happen last night after I got wasted?”
Daniel huffed indignantly, “Think harder! Tell me, do you think I’m the kind of man who would harass a woman?”
“Wait a second!”
Doris tapped her forehead and recalled, “I drank too much last night. Then you helped me upstairs.”
“Yes, then what?”
“And then…”
“Keep going. If you can’t remember it, I’ll die of grievance!”
She kept quiet for a while as she worked hard to recall.
Then, shreds of memories began to emerge.
“That…you held me, and we both fell onto the bed.”
“We fell onto the bed, but I didn’t do anything to you, right? But you grabbed a vase and hit me over the head with it!”
Doris was at a loss for words. She widened her eyes in shock. She remembered.
Daniel was supporting me, but I stumbled backward and fell to the bed, where he landed on top of me.
I was terrified. So I instinctively reached for a vase on the nightstand and struck him with it.
I just wanted him to quickly get off her.
He shouldn’t be lying on top of me. If someone saw us, how would they interpret the scene? Wouldn’t this harm my reputation? Who would have believed me when I explained it to them?
Doris slapped herself on the forehead. She had a hard time believing this. She asked, “I turned you into this with a single knock on the head?”
“What do you think?”
His eyes were burning with rage, “Then Waylon came in. He believed that I had done something to you. He gave you praise for it. Now, how could I take this blame?”
Doris grimaced and reasoned, “I…I never thought it would turn out like this. Last night, I was drunk, so I overreacted. After that, I blacked out. I have no idea how I got home.”
“Lily said Waylon had picked you up, and…”
He suddenly lowered his voice and asked, “I wanted to see you, mainly because I wanted to ask you something.”
Doris felt incredibly sorry for him and said, “Go ahead.”
Deep down, she knew this man had not done anything inappropriate to her last night. She was consumed with guilt.
She was eager to give an honest and open answer when Daniel posed a question to her.
He asked with a frown, “Did you have kids with Waylon? Moreover, you have two children with him?”
Doris was taken aback. Her eyes widened, and she asked, “What?”
“Are you playing dumb with me? Lily visited Hellion Bay this morning, didn’t she? She had seen everything. You had two babies in your arms, and they were a pigeon pair?”
Doris swallowed hard and asked, “Would you believe me if I told you they were my children and had nothing to do with Mr. Adelmar?”
“I don’t! She said the kids look very much like Waylon, and you live in his house,” Daniel exclaimed.
“You tell me you have nothing to do with him? You are bullsh*tting me.”
