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He looked like a miser through and through.
Sue didn’t like him one bit.
“He is definitely not my ex-student!” she cried, aghast.
To make things clear, Sue called her ex-student to ask about his impression of Cecilia.
To her surprise…
“My apologies, Mrs. Chimmery. I didn’t manage to make it to the blind date because I was caught up with
something. I’m still stuck in an academic conference right now. I wanted to call you after it ended, but I didn’t
expect…”
Sue knew about the academic conference he was talking about. It was an international meeting that only people of
relative academic accomplishments could attend.
No one could decide how long the meeting went on for. Everyone at the meeting worked in the same industry, and
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtthat was likely the reason that the meeting dragged on longer than expected.
“It’s not your fault,” Sue said understandingly. She didn’t tell him about Cecilia going for the blind date today, and
hung up after some small talk.
Sue had always been magnanimous in most things, except when it concerned Noel.
Regarding Cecilia’s happiness, she didn’t dare to let go of things and let her daughter choose her own partner.
To Cecilia, her mother had always been sensible and reasonable. Thus, she never suspected that Sue would lie
about Noel.
Sue ended the phone call and turned to Cecilia, her face turning cold. “What’s with that café? They have such good
reviews, but they managed to mess up your blind date.”
To be honest, she didn’t like the man in the Cecilia’s photo. He looked so petty, and had a dark, heavy aura.
When Sue expressed her opinion, Cecilia got upset.
“Mom, you’re so too quick to judge!” she said.
She had chatted with him; in terms of their opinions and perspective of the world, they were clearly a perfect
match. How could her mother judge him as being petty simply based on his appearances?
“Don’t interfere with this,” Sue said with a wave of her hands. She dialed the number of the boss of the café, whom
she previously contacted to register Cecilia for the blind date.
“Hello, I am Cecilia Jarvis’s mother. I’d like to ask, who exactly is my daughter’s blind date? He’s definitely not the
man I introduced! What exactly went wrong with your processes? Shouldn’t you apologize to us?”
Cecilia was dumbfounded.
Sue wasn’t currently teaching in any school, but she was highly respected in society because many well-known
lecturers and professors in major universities came from the Chimmery and Jarvis families.
Though she wasn’t a real teacher, she spoke with the air of one.
Cecilia knew that her mother was acting in her best interests, but she was a fully-grown adult. She had a good time
chatting with Larry, and didn’t want things to end this way.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmEven so, she didn’t interrupt Sue. Otherwise, she would be reprimanded for being impolite.
Unbeknownst to either Sue or Cecilia, someone much more impolite was about to speak.
Sue had put her phone on loudspeaker mode. Cecilia could hear her mother’s conversation with the other party.
Typically, when bosses encounter such issues, they would immediately apologize to their customer before verifying
the facts of the matter.
That was especially so for the roadside café that enjoyed such great business. Otherwise, they would be ruining
their own reputation.
To their surprise, the boss didn’t care. In fact, he sounded even more furious than Sue.
“Why the hell are you calling? Don’t you know how early it is right now? A lot of people are still in bed!”
It was a coarse male voice, uninhibited and unrestrained. He sounded so self-righteous that Cecilia instinctively
glanced at her watch.
Except…
It was already late in the evening. The sun was about to set.
Yet, the man spoke so boldly over the phone, insisting that many people were still in bed…
Sue was furious.
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