Standing Before Love (Myra and Sean) novel Chapter 696

The already fidgety Matthias became even more fretful when he saw the sight, as he didn’t have this kind of fetish. Gazing at the ladies, whose skin had reddened from the coldness, he wondered who had come up with this idea. Nevertheless, he didn’t have the heart to chase them away, as he wasn’t so stone-hearted.

“Evan, I need an explanation from you.” Matthias stared at him with a dark expression. He wanted to know why Evan took him here.

While enjoying the company of a beautiful lady, Evan replied to him, “It’s all made-to-order. Just like playing a game, you can choose whoever you prefer to play poker with you. Since you’ve said you want to get drunk, I’ve told them to prepare a box of wine for us. There are all sorts of flavors, so I’m sure you’ll be happy with it.” Evan flashed a grin at him.

After he finished speaking, someone was heard knocking on the door from outside. Evan looked at the door and uttered, “Come in.”

Following that, a burly man stepped into the room with a box of wine in his hands and placed it in front of them. “Boss, these are the wines you’ve ordered.”

“Evan, are you messing with me?” Matthias suppressed his fury, as he had the urge to kill him.

“President, you’ve really misunderstood me. Since you’re here to unwind, don’t you want to try something new?” Evan’s life goal was to have fun whenever possible.

The woman with a cute voice wanted to chime in, but Evan stopped her from doing so with his gaze. The other tall woman was much calmer, as she just stayed at the side like an outsider.

Matthias didn’t want to flare up in this kind of place, so he just went along with Evan and tried to find out what the latter meant by something new. Seeing that Matthias was convinced, Evan then went on to introduce the two beautiful ladies to him.

“President, the woman in my embrace is Jasmine, and the other one is Ether.” Evan had never tried to touch Ether because he wanted Matthias to take note of her.

It was a coincidence that Ether’s name sounded somewhat similar to Heather’s. Moreover, her height, body shape, and temperament resembled those of Heather as well, so Matthias might be interested in her.

In the past, Evan had tried to come up with all sorts of ways to make Matthias lose his virginity. However, since Heather’s appearance, he had stopped having this kind of thought. Nevertheless, he understood that all men had sexual needs. Seeing how Matthias suppressed his desire in front of Heather, he reckoned that Matthias needed a woman to alleviate his suffering.

“Let’s begin.” Matthias didn’t want to waste any more time. He wasn’t interested in finding out their names, as it was apparent that these were just their aliases.

Evan directly took a seat across from Matthias and made Ether sit on the left of Matthias. If Matthias was interested in Ether, it would be quite obvious when they played poker later.

Meanwhile, Jasmine kept stealing glances at Matthias. She knew that Evan was a rich customer, but after she heard him calling Matthias ‘President’, she reckoned that Matthias must be a big shot. So, she directly took a seat on Matthias’ right. When they played poker later, she would try to win Matthias over. She must seize the chance and make sure that Matthias would take note of her.

All three of them had their own ulterior motives, while Matthias only focused on playing poker. Even Ether, who was beside Matthias, wanted to hook up with him. She knew that wealthy men were not interested in women who were too proactive, which was why she pretended to be aloof. She was fed up with the work here and the destitute state she was in. While working here, she had been trying to look for her Prince Charming. She had done her best to save her virginity so that she could get married to a wealthy man one day.

On the other hand, Matthias wasn’t familiar with the rules of poker. Although he had seen other people play the game before, he had never personally tried it. Just like Heather, he was a workaholic himself, so he wouldn’t do anything that he deemed a waste of time.

Evan knew that Matthias wasn’t familiar with the game. Since they were here to have fun, the rules didn’t really matter. To liven up the atmosphere, Evan said to them, “There are no rules today. Just reveal your hand whenever possible. The loser will not only lose money but also have to drink.”

Matthias found Evan to be ridiculous. Nevertheless, it seemed that Evan was trying to make it easy for him by eliminating the rules. After all, he was a rookie in poker.

However, Matthias wasn’t aware that there was a special rule in this place. These people, who played poker with their customers, could get the money from their customers if they won, but if they lost, they didn’t have to give the customers any money.

Therefore, some customers would come up with terrible ideas to mess with them. Drinking wine was considered a milder punishment. When faced with horrible customers, they’d rather fork out money from their own wallets than be punished by those people.

Perhaps the Goddess of Luck was in favor of poker rookies, so Matthias was extremely lucky on this day. These bottles of wine were meant for Matthias, but he had never even had a taste of it, while the others had already finished three bottles.

“President, you’re really lucky today. Why don’t we change our seats?” Evan almost wanted to throw up, as he was a light drinker.

Seeing that Evan indeed couldn’t take it anymore, Matthias looked at him with a faint smile. “You’re the one who bought the wine, so you’re supposed to drink more of it.” He didn’t have the intention of letting Evan off. As he was in a terrible mood, he was more than happy to see someone else suffer.

Evan thought that his sacrifice was immense this time. He reckoned that he would suffer from alcohol poisoning soon and be sent to the hospital. All sorts of thoughts flashed across his mind, and he had even come up with a will in his head. Nevertheless, he still kept losing the game. It seemed his skills were useless when luck was on the other person’s side. Now, he just wanted to eat his words. If he knew that Matthias was so lucky, he wouldn’t have boasted shamelessly and made it easy for him, as Matthias was the biggest winner now.