The Cold Surgeon's Contract Bride novel Chapter 587

"The elders?!" Amber screeched behind us.

Panic seized my chest. What on earth was Ferris doing?

Just minutes ago, he was formally calling me Dr. Hayes. Now, he was intimately calling me Selena, and even worse, mentioning our 'elders' right in front of Caspian and Amber.

He dropped the line effortlessly, but it was practically designed to send Amber and Caspian's imaginations spiraling.

His behavior was dangerously ambiguous.

I didn't even get a chance to explain because Ferris had already pushed the private room door open. The moment Silas saw him, he practically launched out of his chair, yelling excitedly, "You finally made it! Come, sit, sit!"

"Come on in, have a seat. We'll order right away," Lucille also stood up to welcome him.

"I apologize for the delay. I'm sorry to have kept you waiting," Ferris said, that spring-breeze smile returning to his face as he offered a polite apology. Without missing a beat, he firmly pulled the door shut behind him.

I stood frozen next to Ferris. In the split second before the door clicked shut, I heard Amber's frantic, astonished voice echoing from the hallway. "Caspian, did you hear that?! You said they were talking about work! What kind of work requires bringing your parents along?!"

"And it wasn't just her uncle, her mom was there too! That doesn't look like a casual date. It looks like... a meet-the-parents dinner!"

"Oh my god, Selena is moving so fast! Yesterday I was just guessing that Dr. Sterling liked her, and today he's meeting the family? Isn't that a little extreme?"

Amber's imagination was running absolutely wild. How did she spin this into Ferris meeting my parents for marriage?

But the door was already sealed shut.