Outside the sushi restaurant, the sleek-looking car came to a stop. Ryder stepped out of the car along with Killian. The man looked utterly calm as he swiped the non-existent dust off his shoulders. Jules, who was inside the vehicle, scowled when she saw that Killian had stepped out of the car without opening the door for her.
She was in a terrible mood, but she still opened the door and stepped out. Because of the lack of lighting in the car, she couldn’t take a look at the man. If she had, then she would have slapped the heck out of him right then and there.
Annoyed and severely frustrated with the actions of the man, she smoothed the wrinkles in her dress. Once she deemed her dress suitable, Jules turned around, ready to scold the man who treated her as if she were just a regular girl. But when she turned around, she was stunned. The man was tall and handsome, with his silver locks framing his chiseled jaw and outline.
He looked like a model who had stepped out of the cover of a magazine.
Jules was momentarily blown away by how good-looking Killian was; she blinked her eyes with her mouth agape. For his good looks alone, Jules was ready to forget that this man was her mating match chosen by her father.
Realising that this situation was not particularly bad for her, Jules decided to play it to her advantage. She stepped forward and greeted Killian with a sweet smile on her lips, "It is a pleasure to meet you, Alpha Sokolov. I am Jules Drakos. It seems like it was fate that brought us together."
"Has it?" Killian arched a brow and questioned. Even though he was looking at her with a smile, Jules couldn’t help but feel that the man didn’t hold any interest in her. However, a few seconds later, she denied it in her head. How could that be possible? She was the only princess of the Drakos family.
A pure-blooded dragon shifter. How could anyone dislike her?
She hitched her lips back into a smile and said to Killian, "Of course it is. I am really hungry. How about we order some rare steak—" She was still speaking when her eyes fell on the building in front of her. Her eyes widened, and she whispered in raging outrage, "This is not Three Half Fangs."
"I know." Killian glanced at the woman. He asked, "Who told you that we were going to Three Half Fangs?"
Jules’s smile wavered. She looked at the man nervously before saying, "I was promised that I would be taken to a candlelight dinner. This is not a place where we can have a candlelight dinner."
"You have the wrong information," stated Killian calmly but coldly. "I was asked to bring you to a dinner date, so I did."
Jules was stunned when she heard the rude words of the man. She clenched her fists and stated in a cold voice which matched Killian’s, "You cannot treat me ; I demand that we go to Three Half Fangs this very moment. I will not have lunch in a horrible place ."
"Then you can starve; be my guest," said Killian without looking back. He turned to look at Ryder, "Park the car and come inside. We can have dinner together since Miss Drakos doesn’t find sushi appetising."
After he finished speaking, he headed straight to the sushi restaurant, while Ryder drove the car to the parking lot without giving Jules the time to make another fuss. When Jules turned her head and looked at the subpar vehicles that were parked in the parking lot, her expression turned even more disgusted.
She had never been to a place before and felt really frustrated that a man who was supposed to treat her like a princess was treating her in such a manner. It was just too much!
However, when she looked around, she saw a few hyena shifters stopping and watching her. Though Jules was not a celebrity, she had her own following on the shifter net. She was worried that she would be recorded and posted on social media. The last thing she needed was for everyone to find out that she had been dumped by another man.
And this time, before the date even started.
"Wait for me," Jules shouted as she chased after the man. She had never come to this part of the city before and was afraid that she would end up losing. As the council had placed rather strict restraints on dragon shifters, she couldn’t shift into her dragon form either. She chased after Killian and said to him, "Do you think that my father will be happy about your actions? How can you bring me to a place ? I am the princess of the Drakos family."
Killian paused. He had never cared about what the head of the Drakos family thought about him or what his mother would say. He simply glanced at the woman and muttered, "I am sure that your father will be pleased to see you grow up, Miss Drakos. If your entire personality is based on the mere fact that you are the princess of the Drakos family, I think that you need to touch some grass."
His comment made Jules’s face burn with shame. She parted her lips but she couldn’t bring herself to say anything and before she could even speak a word, she heard Killian say, "Anyway, eating food from these places won’t kill you; at most you will get a trip to the hospital if you are unlucky to get a stale batch."
"You—are you serious?" asked Jules as she continued to walk behind Killian. However, the man was too fast; even though she was running to keep up with his pace, she couldn’t. When she saw that Killian was not saying anything, she shrieked, "I am not going to eat in a place . How can you bring me to a place where they don’t even care about the basic safety protocols?"