After that man badgered her for quite a while, Adelaide bit her lower lip. To avoid getting into trouble, she went into a private box and ordered a bottle of red wine and some beer. It seemed that that man outside still considered her to be a spy, standing at the door for a long time instead of leaving.
The waiter happened to come to deliver the wine. After putting down the wine, he asked, "Hello, I didn't ask whether you want the wine on the rocks or not. Would you like the wine on the rocks, please?"
She shook her head and suddenly asked as if she remembered something, "Well, is customers not allowed to look for people in your bar now?"
The waiter was stunned. Adelaide looked at that man through the crack between the door and frame. The waiter looked at what she was looking at and suddenly understood what Adelaide meant, "Oh, let me explain to you. Several days ago, the bar next to us sent someone to hide a large quantity of methamphetamine in our bar. Later, we were almost prohibited to open by narcotics squad. Therefore, the boss was afraid that something like this would happen again these days."
Adelaide nodded and understood that the reason why the man outside the door would be so alert was that he really considered her to be a person who came to hide drugs. Therefore, she immediately let the waiter go out with a smile.
She was not going to just sit here since she had ordered the wine. Considering that Aadam would come later, she poured a glass of red wine and drank it off. After drinking a few glasses of red wine, she became dizzy and exploded with negative emotions. For a while, she cried; and for another while, she laughed with an empty glass in her hand.
Soon, she finished a bottle of red wine. Then, she directly stood up and stumbled to get the beer that was placed far away from her.
Just at this moment, her cell phone rang.
Adelaide burped and took out her cell phone. She thought that she was hallucinating, because she saw that the caller ID was Antonio.
After answering the phone, she heard Antonio speak in an anxious voice, "Adelaide, where are you? I've been looking for you all day. I went to the hospital, but Miss Hanna was unwilling to see me. I tried to stop a few small newspapers from reporting this news. Besides, I've also found out the person who spread the rumor. That guy used to live in a cell with Kian and was only released recently."
It was rare for her to hear Antonio say such a long speech. She sobered up a little, leaning on the sofa, dropping her eyes and wondering something. She didn't murmur where she was until Antonio asked where she was several times.
A bar?
She went too far! Having done business for many years, Antonio knew how disordered these places were. After putting down his mobile phone, he was in such a hurry that he didn't even call Bruno but drove to the bar Adelaide told him at full speed.
"Master Antonio, dinner's ready! Aren't you going to eat?"
It was the fourth time that Damla had warmed up these dishes. When she was just about to ask Antonio to have dinner, she saw Antonio go out in a hurry.
He nodded and rushed out.
Damla secretly sighed. She knew Antonio well. He always bottled his emotion up and liked to pretend that he didn't care about the person he loved deeply.
After Miss Hanna suffered misfortune, Adelaide knew that she herself was tired and sad, but neglected Antonio's efforts. Luckily, when Antonio tried hard to help Miss Hanna, Oscar could be in charge of the company for him. Otherwise, how could a company's president be often absent from work to accompany his wife at home?
She saw all these. Thinking that it was unfair to Antonio, she felt angry in her heart. In the past, Clarissa was there. These days, she didn't see Flora and Clarissa at all. She had gone to the basement they lived in, but their neighbors said that they had moved away long ago. When she asked something about them, they all shook their heads and said that they didn't know.
Gradually, she gave up the idea of changing a hostess because Antonio loved Adelaide deeply. She was unable to help Clarissa, but Flora and Clarissa helped her a lot. Now, Damla still sighed when she thought of Clarissa.
She lowered her head and took a look at her mobile phone. It was already more than 10 o'clock in the evening. No wonder Antonio had asked her to warm up the dishes for so many times. Every time after she warmed up the dishes, Antonio would let her clear them after waiting for Adelaide for some time. Not long after that, he would think that Adelaide was about to get home and asked her to warm up the dishes. They had repeated it for four times. Seeing that he was in such a hurry, Damla guessed that he probably had found Adelaide.
When Damla pushed these thoughts away, he had gone far, leaving the door wide open. She trotted to close the door and took the food back to the kitchen again.
Antonio drove the car so fast that it nearly exceeded the speed limit. Fortunately, he remembered that Adelaide was waiting for him in the bar and that he would delay a long time if he was caught exceeding the speed limit by the traffic police. Therefore, he slowed down the speed of his car gradually.
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