Chapter 49 - Amethyst Eyes 4: Veni, Vidi, Vici (2/2)

Ten out of ten, his friends did something again like including him into something without him knowing.

”Well,” they started. All five of them looked guilty and he placed his arms across his ċhėst, his arched brow telling them to speak up.

”Ehrm…Amethyst Eyes,” one of his buddies said and he frowned once more.

”Amethyst what?”

”Amethyst Eyes – that's the nickname we've given the mysterious patron we mentioned earlier,” they said and Alex got confused.

”What does that person got to do with me?” he asked and saw his friends exchanged looks.

”Well, you see… she's really beautiful with huge eyes the color of amethyst, hence the name. She's so otherworldly that a lot has taken an interest in her. But Amethyst Eyes won't pay us attention. She wouldn't even talk to any of us, cutting conversations before they even started to take off. She'd just come in, order a drink or two and then go. In short, she's unattainable.”

”So?” Alex asked again just as he thought that he shouldn't have gone after all. He totally regretted coming and hanging out here with the idiots. He should have been at home with Ash – probably mȧkɨnġ ŀȯvė to her now and not here suffering from his friends' jokes. ”I still can't see what it has to do with me.”

”Well, we thought you're still unattached and would love to try hitting on her. There's a bet going on you see. Whoever's able to go out with Amethyst Eyes would win – and we thought with your record you'd definitely win,” they said.

Alex was totally upset now but these fools still didn't give up trying to change his mind. He could feel that there was more to this than a simple game. He was right.

”We actually bet ten thousand US dollars each on you,” they said sheepishly. ”Won't you try?”

”I'm getting married and I have no plans on cheating,” Alex snapped, but his friends weren't ready to give up.

”Well, you don't have to bed her. Just go out with her, you know,” they said making Alex look at them as if they'd gone mad.

He was at the point of telling his friends to go to hell when someone entered the bar and the room suddenly became quiet. Distracted from his tirade, he glanced up and froze.

A slender young woman walked in from the entrance with a dreamy expression on her remarkably beautiful face. Her pale skin glowed under the dim lights of the place and was a creamy contrast to the black sweater she tied over her shoulders over a white top. Her dark jeans fitted her like a second skin which emphasized her long, long legs.

Without looking around her, the beauty walked towards the bar and talked to the master, probably to order some drinks. As if feeling Alex's intense gaze on her back, the beauty turned to his direction and frowned, and the young businessman was able to see her features clearly – even those pair of gorgeous violet – no, amethyst eyes.

”That's her,” Alex heard one of his friends say as he felt a nudge in his rib. ”You look like you've been struck. I told you she's a beauty,” his friend continued as the beauty turned her gaze away from them and Alex silently sat back on his seat, his eyes never leaving the beautiful woman who drank at the bar without a care in the world.

”She is,” he agreed and he continued to observe the beauty for hours until the other left the bar.

Within those hours, however, Alex lost count on how many times Amethyst Eyes had been approached and watched as she turned them all down, coldly if he might add.

He'd never been interested in anyone as he had now upon seeing her since Ashley. Alex could feel the familiar fire within his ċhėst – the dėsɨrė to compete.

Yes, watching the cool beauty stirred the competitiveness awake within him, and as of this moment, he was more than tempted to try to conquer the prize.

”So, what do you think? Are you going to take the challenge?” his friends asked him, confident that he had indeed changed his mind, and he smirked, thinking how Ashley had been treating him lately.

Well, a little jealousy play wouldn't hurt right – and it wasn't as if the wedding would be off.

This would be just a little interlude before he got married. Besides, Alex Li wasn't someone who'd back down from a challenge.

Veni, Vidi, Vici

”I came, I saw…” he murmured against his glass as he recalled the beauty with those pair of huge amethyst eyes. ”I will conquer…”