My leg wound no longer disrupted my walking. Tonight also happened to be the day I scheduled the dinner with Marius.
It was, to put it bluntly, a blind date. Would Marius be furious after finding out?
I could call Shannon to cancel it.
I was about to call her but she beat me to it. "Wanda, I'm at your door. Come out. I’ll give you a ride.”
"Oh okay. Wait for me."
Hanging up the call, I went back to my room to change my clothes before heading downstairs. I looked at Theo who was reading a magazine on the sofa. "I’m going out to dinner with Shannon.”
"Okay, come back early."
"Alright.”
When I exited the villa, I saw a car with flashing lights not far away. I went up to it and opened the car door before seeing Shannon greeting me excitedly. "Let's go, it's almost time."
I got into the car, my heart flip-flopping. “Shannon, I think we should just call it off. It’s not good that we didn’t tell Marius anything.”
“It’ll be fine. We already invited them out. It won’t be nice for us to cancel when the girl has probably left the house. Don’t worry, let’s go.” Shannon stepped on the accelerator.
My imagination ran wild as we made our way over. I slowly came back to my senses as we neared the restaurant.
Shannon and I had just taken a seat when we saw someone coming up to us. “Hello. Are you the ones who invited me out?”
“Ay, yes. You’re Miss Blanche ?” Shannon asked.
“Yes. Hello to you two.”
“Please, sit.”
I took a closer look at Miss Blanche. She looked much younger than she was in her photo, and one could tell that she had made herself up carefully before coming out. She had let go of her guard that she had during work and was dressed in a casual-looking outfit. She looked like a gentle and careful woman.
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