Chapter 20 - Catch Me If You Can (1/2)

”Why do you look so sulky? I got that red wine for you as you requested,” Xander asked, totally confused as to why Yera didn't look happy at all.

Yera didn't answer. Instead, she just opened the wine bottle and drank the expensive wine directly from it. Xander was flabbergasted by this woman's oddball behavior, so he carefully asked, ”Don't take this the wrong way, but are you perhaps on your period?”

Yera burst out laughing and drank more.

No, she wasn't on her period, but her pride was nagging at the back of her mind. She had always been in competition with Xander for years, and she had often ended up losing. Fine, she had come to terms with the fact that he was better at her when it comes to personality. The man was evidently a social butterfly while she was an ice witch.

But how come he was still better at her even at singing?

'What's with you? Get over it! You're no longer competing with him. He's your ally now, remember?' Her inner-self snapped. She realized how bad her mood was right now. Especially after she saw him smiling at everyone, including those women, who were obviously drooling over him.

”Geez, what is wrong with me?” She murmured as she gulped more wine from the bottle.

Xander was taken aback and looked at her with his mouth agape. 'How did Bernard fall for her? She's totally nuts!' He frowned as he watched Yera downing almost the whole bottle of wine on her own.

'Yeah? Well, how come you like her too?' Another voice from his subconscious jeered at him. Xander quickly brushed it off.

”Hey, are you planning to drink it all by yourself?” He asked as he offered his glass to Yera, gesturing for her to at least give him a taste of his reward. After all, it was he who had to sing in front of the crowd, something he did not normally do, just to get that bottle of wine.

Yera poured him some of the wine and answered nonchalantly, ”Here. But you saw me drinking directly from the bottle. So it probably has my saliva in it.”

Xander twitched his mouth. Then he grinned and said, ”It's okay. We kissed already, and it's sweet.”

Yera just glared at him before she asked in a menacing voice, ”Hmm, can I trust you? I'm planning to get drunk tonight. Will I be safe with you? I'm not myself when I'm drunk, so I'm warning you in advance, don't you dare take advantage of me.”

Xander almost choke on his drink when he heard those words. He looked at Yera in disbelief as he defended himself, ”Excuse me, what do you think of me? I don't do things without consent.”

Yera narrowed her eyes as she retorted, ”You kissed me without my consent just this morning.”

Xander coughed at her comeback. He then reassured her, ”Don't worry. I wouldn't do anything to you unless you agreed to it. Of course, when you're sober.”

Yera laughed scornfully but did not say a word as she continued to drink.

True enough, the drunken Yera was totally different than the sober Yera. To call the drunken Yera a handful, was quite an understatement. Xander had a hard time getting her out of the restaurant and into his car as drunken Yera suddenly decided that she would love to play a game of tag!

In which Xander was the tagger, and she was the one running away to avoid being tagged by the tagger.

So there he was, chasing her around inside the restaurant and outside in the parking lot, trying to grab her while she was evidently having the time of her life, trying to dodge him, the tagger.

He left the restaurant feeling embarrassed after apologizing to the other guests and the waiters.

Even after they arrived at their house, Yera was still full of energy.

”Young master, do you need any help?” Butler Gary asked as he signaled one of their helpers to help intercept the young mistress when he saw his young master struggling to catch her as she ran around the mansion like a crazy woman.

”Your young mistress should be... No! She MUST be banned from the wine cellar! Take note of that!” Xander bellowed in exasperation as he was trying to grab hold of his wife, who was obviously still under the impression that they were playing the game of tag, as she kept giggling and taunting her tagger with, ”Catch me if you can...!”

”Just leave us. I can handle her,” Xander declared with knitted eyebrows as he quickly ran after Yera, who was now on her way to the second floor.

Xander cursed. Who would have thought the prim and proper ice queen, Yera Han, could act this childish when she was drunk. He looked at the cameras along the corridor and smiled. There was evidence, and he could definitely use it to tease her later.