Chapter 428

• The hotel restaurant is bustling despite the early hour. Daniel was quick to invite a leggy blonde beauty to join us for breakfast. He is currently feeding the poor bimbo strawberries, but he manages to drop most of them into her exposed cleavage, retrieving them with his fingers. It’s cringe-worthy. Jake watches him with a serious frown creasing his brow, and he eye rolls every time Daniel swoops in for another berry. We both know he’s using the girl as a buffer, so Jake won’t bring up Leila again, the sweet blonde bundle Daniel is hopelessly in love with. Jake has pretty much gotten nowhere with him on that front.
• The bimbo giggles hopelessly, pretending to be embarrassed, but the look on her face shows she isn’t shy about it at all. Jake looks down and starts flicking through his phone with one hand, answering a message from his little brother Arrick, coffee held in the other, while I eat my pancakes beside him. We’ve been here around half an hour, and the conversation has been strained. Jake stuck on wanting to talk, and Daniel doing his absolute best to make it impossible.
• I’m tired today, so I’m happy to sit in silence and eat while Jake, beside me, is absorbed in exchanging messages with his brother, and Daniel is acting like a complete sleaze in a five-star hotel’s dining room.