96 Chapter 5 (2/2)

He ignored Lilybella and focused his attention on Evangeline. There were so many questions he wanted to ask, one of them was why she was in Everland all alone and––

Before his thoughts could finish formulating his questions, a waiter appeared and served their food. He was stunned yet again, utterly speechless when he saw how much food was served –– especially the amount of desserts and cream and those extra cream and cream.

”E-Evangeline . . .” His voice was rasp forced out from the lump in his throat. She was digging in. Not a care of her image at all.

”W-what the . . .”

He didn't know how to verbalize the words he was trying to get out of his mouth. There were too many questions, and he didn't know what to let out first!

”E-Evangeline! W-what are you doing?!” He was alarmed when she scooped a mouthful of cheesecake and ate it. He cringed, thinking the amount of sugar and carbs on that piece of morsel.

Evangeline didn't care and answered with a mouth full of food, ”Eating, what else am I doing?”

Daniel took a sharp intake of air when Evangeline shoved another spoon of whipped cream inside her mouth. At the same time, Lilybella didn't see anything wrong and munched a potato chipped dipped in creamy white chocolate into her mouth.

”E-Evangeline! W-what happened to you?! W-What happened to diet and calculating your intake of carbs? You're very particular about that every time we ate.”

Looking at Evangeline, Daniel noticed her face was . . . a little rounder while an extra gloss stained her cheeks. Did she get fat? In just a week he hadn't seen her, she was a completely different woman.

His brows furrowed when something clicked in his mind. This amount of food. Not caring about her figure. Evangeline's strange behavior of wantonly indulging herself with so much sweets.

”Are you . . . are you . . . depress? Did something happen with you and Eric?”

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”. . .”

A shiver ran from the tip of Daniel's toe and crawled to his spine when the room turned much colder. The dark fog emanating from Evangeline was so thick he could touch it.

Evangeline stared at Daniel. Her fork slammed against her cake in amazing speed and precision. Daniel audibly gulped, flinching from his seat.

”Whatever do you mean, Daniel?” Evangeline said, dragging the letters of his name. ”I don't know the word depressed. It's not even in my vocabulary. And who is this Eric you speak of? I don't know a man whose name is Eric.”

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”. . .”

Lilybella shifted her gaze between Daniel and Evangeline. Her mouth never stopped munching her vanilla coated potato chips.

Daniel, on the other hand, ma.s.saged his crumpled brows. His headache was worsening, dealing with two crazy women in one day––no, in just half a day!

”Evangeline . . .” Daniel wryly sighed but unable to expressed words of comfort. An ominous feeling kept bugging him, which he constantly pushed away. Nonetheless, he needed to ask just in case –– for safety measures.

”Why are you dress like that?” This was in his mind the moment he saw her. But he pushed it at the back of his mind since part of him didn't believe it, and part of him refused to believe it. And now that he confirmed she was indeed depressed because of Eric . . . her entire attire only meant one thing.

Evangeline smiled at Daniel, one full of meaning. Her eyes locked on the strikingly perfect cone-shaped mountain. It laid in the distance like piles and piles of snow. It even appeared soft and delicious in her eyes.

”I heard Everland is famous because of Evermountain. I'm planning to climb its peak. You know, soul searching and connecting with nature and such. That's why I'm here, of course.”