Chapter 127. Mom

Chantel Raven

"How did you get past the guards?" he shouts.

"Oh! I knocked them out," he replies with a mischievous grin.

I am shocked, but I do not turn around because I do not want him to trip and fall. "How? You are wasted."

"Getting drunk does not mean I have lost the power to ruin men. And girls for that matter—you should have seen the pub girls. They were worn out."

I push him up on a stool as we walk into the restaurant's kitchen.

"What do you mean they were exhausted?"

He mocks it a little too much; my question is not funny.

"You are so hot when you are jealous."

"To be honest, I am not jealous. Just because I think it is incredibly rude."

"Sure, pumpkin."

I can't wait until he is not drunk, so I can hit him for calling me pumpkin.

I turn around and get the things I need for the soup, now wondering about what he sai