Despite knowing that Amelia could be serious when it came to this, Patrick was surprised by the extent that she went.
By dividing the dishes to different ends of the table and drawing an invisible line in between the pit, she had impliedly told the outsiders that both of them were strangers who were forced to share a table.
Had he gone and touched the plates on her side, most probably she would make use of the fact that he would only take meat to tease him.
Having this in mind, Patrick thought vindictively, "I will never ever let this woman have the chance of firing me back! There's no chance for her to dream about it!"
He threw a piece of chicken breast into the barbeque pit expressionlessly. However, his excessive force had resulted in the chicken breast falling onto the cuttlefish that Amelia was grilling.
Even if Amelia had remained silent upon seeing this, judging from her brows which were raised up high, Patrick could tell that his chicken had exceeded the boundary that Amelia had drawn for the pit.
Speaking of the line she drew, Patrick did not feel like he was obliged to follow. He may use the entire barbeque pit as he wished.
"I dare you to bite me!" Even if Patrick had not said it out loud, his gaze had no doubt challenged her into taking further action against him.
Amelia was not going to let him get away from this easily. With the help of chopsticks, she flicked the chicken breast to another side of the pit.
"Are you serious in making a fuss at me, woman?! What the hell is wrong with you?" thought Patrick.
Amelia was unbothered of his anger. She continued to flip her grilled cuttlefish from time to time leisurely.
As for Patrick, his chicken was lying alone at the other end of the barbeque pit. Not only did it look peculiar next to the cuttlefish scattering around, the one side lying on the pit got burnt within a short period of time.
Upon realizing where did the burned smell come from, Patrick had no other choice but to throw it into the rubbish bin again.
Consequently, Patrick had eaten nothing so far ever since he came in. As for Amelia, she had already begun to pick up the grilled cuttlefish from the barbeque pit and place them into her bowl.
Seeing that each piece of cuttlefish had been
gradually shifted from the pit to her bowl, Patrick was tempted to have a taste of it.
He wondered why her food looked extraordinarily scrumptious.
Patrick could not help staring at the content of her bowl. His stare was desperate yet vicious. Amelia had immediately thought of the two German Shephards of The Ramsay Family.
They always stared at the security guard this way whenever it came to time that they were supposed to be fed.
It was hard for the security guard to tell from their stare that whether they were begging or threatening for food. Similarly, Amelia thought of Patrick the same way too.
However, Patrick would never beg for anything. Hence, she could only assume that he was threatening her into sharing her food with him.
At this thought, Amelia could no longer feel pity for him. She continued to pick up the grilled cuttlefish from the barbeque pit.
Besides, there were tons of meat on the side of table that Patrick was occupying. He did not have any reason to ask for her food.
Feeling that her action was wholly justifiable, she placed the last piece of cuttlefish into her bowl before she put it down. Followingly, she turned to look at the row of containers filled with a variety of sauces.
It was a tough decision to make as to which sauce to be picked. Eventually, she had picked the signature homemade sauce of this restaurant.
Scooping some to garnish the cuttlefish, she started indulging herself with it.
Patrick wondered if Amelia had taken him invisible.
Patrick who was paying close attention to Amelia all this while could not help having this thought to himself.
And that this thought had driven him aggressive.
He took the plate full of chicken breast and began putting them all into the barbeque pit.
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