Serena complimented her best friend.
She had no brothers, but her cousins would probably sell her off if she ever drank and got wasted with them.
If Zack was around…
Why did she have to think about him? That petty guy was the cause of her irritability!
Zack, who was dubbed the petty guy by Serena, took a few hours of sleep at the office before waking up.
He opened his eyes and found a thick jacket draped over him. Removing the jacket, he looked at the time.
“It’s nine at night,” Zack cried, unable to believe that he slept that long.
There were a few thermal lunch boxes on his desk. It must be the dinner brought by the manager of the subsidiary company. The manager must have seen him asleep and did not want to wake him. The thick. jacket over Zack must be from the manager too..
Straightening his back, Zack sat in silence for a while before heading to the bathroom to freshen himself up with a good splash of cold water to his face.
He walked out of the bathroom several minutes later.
Having returned to his seat, he opened the food containers. The food was still warm.
He sat behind his desk and dug in. Zack pulled out his phone and checked his messages. Other than the messages from his senior executives about work, his brothers and cousins sent him a few text. messages too.
After reading all the messages, Zack pulled a long face as he received nothing from Serena.
Mrs. Lane said that she was no longer angry.
Serena was either making her crafts at the shop or chatting away with her sister at her sister’s place. She probably forgot who he was.
Zack was down in the dumps.
It was then Zack noticed an unread text message. He tapped on it.
The message was from Mrs. Lane.
Mrs. Lane had texted him in the afternoon, but he was too caught up in slumberland to hear the notification.
“Mr. Zack, Ms. Hunt is going drinking at a bar tonight.”
The message was only a short sentence, but Zack scowled and had to ditch food to give Mrs. Lane a call right away.
It took a while before Mrs. Lane picked up the call.
“I made an excuse to bring out the trash so I could take your call, Mr. Zack.”
Mrs. Lane added, “Why did you only reply to me now, Mr. Zack? The missus is probably at the bar right. now.”
Zack solemnly asked, “Which bar is she at? I worked all of last night and couldn’t keep awake by the time afternoon rolled around. I took a nap. I only saw the message now that I woke up.”
Mrs. Lane thought to herself, ‘No wonder Mr. Zack went quiet after I sent the message. It turned out he was asleep.’
“Where is Serena drinking?”
Zack knew that he was the reason Serena went drinking at a bar.
He kind of regretted his action.
Why did he have to be petty? He made a fuss because she did not tell him about Liberty being harassed by her former mother-in-law. Come to think of it, Zack was indeed acting petty.
Serena was a rather independent woman. She could not possibly rely on him for every little thing.
“I don’t know which bar she has gone to. I overheard she was going for drinks with Ms. Sox to vent their pent-up emotions at a bar.”
Following a brief silence, Zack said, “Okay. I got it.”
After ending the call with Mrs. Lane, Zack immediately gave Josh a call. Once the call was connected, he jumped right to the matter at hand. “Josh, I need to look into the bar that Jasmine and Serena went drinking at, and how long they’ve been there.”
“Jasmine went drinking? Why didn’t she invite me?”
“Alright, alright. I’ll get right to it. I’ll go there and drive them home once I receive word, okay?”
Josh added, “Why did they go drinking out of the blue? They could’ve told me if they wanted to enjoy a good drink. I can bring out my dad’s treasured wine collection. They didn’t have to go all the way to a bar.” Zack bit his tongue for a moment before uttering, “I had a fight with Serena.”
Josh had no words.
He commented, “What’s up with you two? You were getting along just fine and giving us front-row seats to your public display of affection, but now another fight broke out. No wonder Serena went to a bar. It was all because of you.”
Zack replied, “Look into where they are right now and how long they’ve been there. Are they drunk? Give me a reply if you hear anything back.”
“Alright. I’ll get right to it.”
Josh swiftly hung up the call and dove into investigating the girls’ whereabouts.
While waiting for an answer, Zack contacted his private plane crew and instructed them, “Prepare to fly back. I want to return to Wiltspoon in a few minutes.”
He did not want Serena to drop him off at the airport when he needed to go away for business. One reason was he had to return to the office, and the second was he did not have a plane ticket ready. Zack took a private plane abroad.
Following Zack’s last-minute notice, the crew started flight preparations.
After taking care of his arrangements, Zack started to call Serena.
Serena, Jasmine, and her younger brother, Drake, were having a blast at the bar.
Since Drake could not drink, he sat in a corner and watched the two ladies take one drink after another.
Serena, in particular, was just downing drinks.
He had to say something, “Serena, don’t drink too much. You’re looking rather red in the face. I don’t think you can handle that much liquor. You’re going to get wasted.”
Serena answered with a smile, “Alcohol is the answer to all your problems. I want to get drunk for a change and forget about Zack!”
Drake looked at his sister.
Patting her brother on the shoulder, Jasmine said, “Serena’s feeling down. I’m under orders to drink with. her tonight. Just watch us. Don’t try to talk her out of it. Let her drink her problems away. Tomorrow, she’ll wake up with a horrible headache, sores, and an awful feeling in the gut. That’s her problem for drowning. her sorrows.”
Drake was speechless.
Serena hooked her arm over her best friend’s shoulder. “You know me best, Jas. Today, we drink. We’ll leave the worries until tomorrow.”
She did not want to think about the consequences of getting drunk.
Serena was feeling depressed.
She could keep all her emotions under wraps during the day.
However, like many others who unleashed their madness in the bar, Serena could not hold in the pent-up emotions and proceeded to free her hair.
Serena’s phone rang.
sister.”
Serena gestured for Jasmine and her brother to keep it down as she whipped out her phone. It was Zack. Furrowing her brows, she handed the phone to Jasmine and let out a hiccup before asking her best friend, “Jas, the petty guy is calling me now.
“He won’t even take my calls or answer my texts. Should I even take his call?”
Although Jasmine had a couple of drinks, she was still lucid. Jasmine replied, “You decide whether you want to take or decline the call. I can’t decide for you.”
Zack would blame her if he were to find out. Jasmine would not be able to talk her way out of it.
“No. He should get a taste of rejection.”
Serena rejected Zack’s call.
Nevertheless, Zack immediately dialed her number again.
She terminated the call once more.
Zack called, and she hung up.
After several times, Zack appeared rather grimacing.
Zack gave up on dialing Serena’s number.
A call from Josh could not come at a better time.
“Where are they drinking, Josh?”
Zack went right to the question the moment the call was connected.
Hearing the anxiousness in his tone, Josh took the chance to tease Zack. “Feeling desperate? Do you have ants in your pants? Can’t wait to get back here?”
“Josh!”
This was the worst possible time to make fun of him.
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