Chapter 58 Game On
Horace chuckled after Cayson ordered a vegetable sd. He queried, "Cayson, I thought you are so
rich. Why then did you order a vegetable sd? Isn''t it too cheap for you?"
"Horace, shut up! If you want to trick my boyfriend into spending more money, just say it. Stop beating
around the bush!" De fired back at him before Cayson could even respond.
It seemed like she made it her point of duty to defend Cayson against Horace. Her boyfriend was rich
and she liked to spend his money, but it didn''t mean she would allow others to do the same, let alone
take advantage of him.
Like a female knight in shiny armor, she continued, "Horace, you think you are tricking my boyfriend
into paying half of the bill. But you are actually setting yourself up. I''m dead sure you don''t even have
up to thirty thousand dors in your pocket now. How dare you order six servings of Kobe steaks? You
fucking bastard! You wanted my boyfriend to pay the bill from the very beginning, didn''t you?
Everything is clear to me now. Since you even set a punishment for the loser, it seems you would love
to serve us like a dog!"
None of the invitees believed that the three cakes on the table were a gift. Horace and La didn''t
bother to convince them anymore.
The total money donated at the fundraiser was sixty-two thousand dors. Horace had spent nearly ten
thousand dors for dinnerst night. After the doubting Thomases deducted the money for the
expensive cakes and the rental car today, they estimated that Horace had only thirty thousand dors
on him. This was the highest estimate they could make.
"Ha-ha! Really?" Horace sneered with anger. Suggesting thepetition wasn''t to trick Cayson into
paying half of the bill. He had just wanted to teach him a good lesson. De''s usation made his
blood boil. He turned to the waitress and ordered, "Please tell all the customers present that every
meal ordered this noon would be ced on my tab. They don''t have to pay a dime. This also covers for
the customers that woulde after the announcement is made."
"Okay, sir. I''ll inform them right away!" The waitress didn''t hesitate for a second. She remembered the
stern warning her boss had given all the employees before now.
She quickly walked to the music bar in the restaurant. Afterward, she picked up the microphone and
announced artictely, "Dear esteemed customers, please can I have your attention? Mr. Horace
Warren has offered to pay the bill for everyone here this noon!" She pointed at Horace as she spoke.
Although Edna hadn''t told the employees Horace''s full mane, they had overheard the conversation of
his former ssmates at their table. Now they knew his full name was Horace Warren.
"Great! This is our lucky day!" The customers were few, but they all screamed in surprise and
appreciation. Many of them even picked up their cell phones and started making calls.
They wanted to inform their close family and friends toe and have free lunch at the Country Music
Restaurant. Such a good thing happened only once in a blue moon. They couldn''t just keep it to
themselves.
Edna was sitting at a corner of the restaurant when she heard the waitress''s announcement. With a
chuckle, she looked at Horace murmured to herself, "Now he''s behaving like the son of the Warren
family''s head. It''s a good thing that he''s proving to those arrogant fellows that he is not a man to be
trifled with!"
She had been listening to their conversation all along.
Everyone at Horace''s table was stunned to hear the announcement. De sneered and remarked,
"Horace, you can achieve a tie with Cayson by doing this, but do you have any idea how much you will
owe in the end? You organized this party and La invited us. We have no hand in whatever game you
are ying. We didn''t sign up to pay for other people''s meals. You have to take full responsibility when
it''s time! Listen to me carefully. It''s not toote to go back on your words before people begin to troop in
here."
De was getting very anxious. She didn''t want her boyfriend to go bankrupt because of Horace''s
games.
The meals in this restaurant were already expensive. The customers here would eat to their fill
because Horace had just given them an open check. By the time they were done, he would have to pay
hundreds of thousands of dors. If he couldn''t, the management may call the police on everyone
seated at this table.
"Horace!" La suddenly held his hand and looked at him worriedly.
She had looked forward to this party with great expectation, but this wasn''t how she had imagined it to
be. She felt that Horace was behaving rather weird today. However, she still felt sorry for him because
he wouldn''t have made a bet with Cayson if he wasn''t trying to please her.
When Horace sensed her perplexity, he gave her a reassuring smile. He then looked at De and said
disdainfully, "De, you are stressing yourself over nothing. There will be no tie today. I wille out as
the winner. Just watch and see!"
After he finished speaking, he took out the boxed Jusete un Clou ne he had bought from the
Cartier shop and handed it to La. "Before our foodes, let me give you a gift. Happy birthday,
La," he said with a smile.
La thought Horace had just gotten her a normal birthday gift. She had no idea what was inside the
gift box. When she took the box and opened it, she was greeted with the shiny brilliance of a beautiful
ne. She eximed, "This gift is so beautiful! Horace, thank you very much!"
The others stretched their necks to see what was in the gift box. They were attracted by the radiating
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brilliance of the ne. When Macie set eyes on it, she eximed, "My goodness! This is one of the
Jusete un Clou ne series by Cartier. It''s so beautiful!"
"Are my eyes deceiving me? No, it''s indeed the expensive nail ne by Cartier. Even if it was sold
at a discount, it wouldn''t be worth less than thirty thousand dors. How did you get it?" De was lost
in thought for a while as she stared at the ne. The next second, she chuckled. "Horace, you are
a crook! You don''t have much money since you have bought the cakes and the ne, do you? You
cunning bastard! From the very beginning, you knew you couldn''t afford to pay for lunch. Since I
brought my rich boyfriend here, you devised a n so you can indirectly rope him into paying the bills.
Horace, you''re really something! No wonder you have been behaving so arrogantly and trying to
provoke my boyfriend since we got here. It turns out you premeditated everything. Thispetition
was a trap!"
De felt like Sherlock Holmes as she made a series of deductions through observation and logical
reasoning. When she was done, she nodded her head with assurance.
"Horace, there''s something I would like you to make clear. I don''t understand why you pretended to be
rich when you are actually penniless. Did you do that just to save face? How dumb can you be? If you
hade out clean about your penniless state, I would have asked Cayson to foot the bill. You
wouldn''t have had to face any humiliation. But now you havended us into trouble!"
"Ha-ha!" Horace burst outughing. He then pped his hands thrice and said, "Wonderful! Your
speech is wonderful, De. You would make a good detective in the future! Who knows? Your name
might go down in history as the female Sherlock Holmes! Honestly, I don''t just like your boyfriend. This
has gotten nothing to do with you. Don''t stick your oar into my business or try to pity me. Even if I
rue a debt worth hundreds of millions of dors in the end, it''s none of your business. Anyway, I
won''t lose today!"
Meanwhile, La had heard everything De said. The happy expression on her face was instantly
reced with sheer worry. She closed the gift box and pushed it back to Horace. "I can''t ept such
an expensive gift, Horace!" she uttered, shaking her head.