When she returned, she bumped into Clarice outside the private dining room.
Clarice was holding a bottle of wine and said to Estelle, "This is some good stuff, Estelle. Let's have a drink together!"
Estelle stared at her, not responding.
Clarice, smiling, pushed the door open and purposely waited for Estelle to step out. Then, raising the wine bottle, she announced, "Estelle's treating everyone to a drink. Let's thank Estelle!"
Estelle turned to look at Clarice, who, looking triumphant, raised an eyebrow at Estelle.
Everyone turned to Estelle, surprised. "Estelle, you're so generous! Did you make a lot of money recently?"
"Estelle, didn't know you're loaded!"
"Thanks, Estelle, this is my first time drinking such expensive wine!"
Estelle's expression did not change. She merely nodded and smiled lightly. "This is my first time dining with everyone, I hope you all enjoy yourselves."
The director stood up and said, "Estelle, isn't this wine too expensive? We're all friends here, no need for this!"
"It's fine as long as everyone has a good time," Estelle said, nodding and calmly returning to her seat.
Clarice excitedly called in the waiter to open the bottle and poured wine into everyone's glasses.
Clarice did this to humiliate Estelle.
Estelle shook her head, "No need."
"What do you mean no need? Even though we know it's Clarice's doing, we can't let her make a fool of us when it's time to pay!" Craig frowned.
"Just wait and see, really, no need!" Estelle raised her glass to Craig, "Drink up, it's a few thousand per sip."
Seeing Estelle still able to joke around, Craig felt a bit helpless.
An hour later, the dinner ended. The director and Estelle went to the front desk to settle the bill, with Craig trailing along, worried about Estelle.

Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: Find me in your labyrinth (Stella and Jonathan)
I love it, I love it! Thank you for the updates....
Dear author Lucy, may we please have updates. Thank you....
There's a song currently playing via YouTube and TikToc by LowDii "Touch Me Softly" that makes me think of Norah and Xavier (Gonzalez). Please, I'm looking forward to updates. Thank you for your writing....
May we please have updates. Thank you....
As the plot thicken. Adrian is done for and he can't try to control Norah, so he'd probably tattle to Janice who's gone for two weeks. Thank you soooo much for the updates....
These updates were too funny. Thank you so much for the updates....
I forgot to add Amy to the group of pregnant women,since she was the first. Emily and Sylvia better be careful since pregnancy is in the air....
Wow! This is great, both Estelle and Magdalen are pregnant at the same time and I hope that Xavier is Norah neighbor. Thank you for the updates....
Author Lucy you're a blessing. Thank you so my for the updates. I hope that Norah's neighbor is Xavier she gets her memory back....
May we please have updates. Thank you....