Chapter 41

Ding-a-ling~

Christine flinched slightly as he stepped into the shop.

"This is...?"

"Yeah. Isn't it a pretty dessert shop?"

He looked around with an expression that clearly didn't agree with the word "pretty."

The interior, done up in cream tones, was furnished almost entirely in pink. What was more, nearly every customer in the shop was a young woman.

In a place like this, Christine's presence was jarringly out of place. His looks alone already drew stares anywhere he went, so now every woman in the shop sat frozen with forks halfway to their mouths, staring.

"So this is what women call pretty."

"Want to leave, if it's uncomfortable?"

"Not at all."

And with that, he marched further into the shop.

Just then, a young clerk in a suit hurried over.

"Do you have a reservation?"

Adele leaned in and spoke to the clerk in a near-whisper.

"We didn't make…