Life After Prison by Silencieux
Chapter 1038

Chapter 1038

Chelsea's lips twitched involuntarily. 'Dr*t! I've been set up by her.'

She immediately smiled awkwardly and said, "What are you talking about, Audrey? You're all my friends, not his. Besides, this is his first tirne meeting you all so I should be the one paying for the dinner." Hearing this, Audrey and Rico exchanged glances with each other. At that moment, they became even more confident that Severin was poor because if not, Chelsea would not have insisted on paying for the dinner.

"Chelsea, it's only dinner. I'm sure your boyfriend could afford this much. Besides, aren't your friends his friends too? Since you two are together and all. There's really no need to nitpick about whose friends we are," said Rico.

"Mister Rico is right!" Zayne piped up. "We'll just treat the dinner as a celebration of you two dating. So your boyfriend should be the one paying. Plus, we'll be hanging out quite often in the future and as a man it won't look good on him if you're the one footing the bills all the time. It'll be okay if you guys are married but do you really want a miser as your boyfriend?"

Chelsea was at a loss for what to say. She initially came up with this plan to make Rico give up on her but she never expected that it would put Severin in such a difficult spot.

However, to her surprise, Severin simply smiled. "You guys are right! I should be the one buying the dinner. Let's all go inside the restaurant!"

Audrey stretched herself before saying pointedly, "Thanks but we're quite worried you won't have the money to pay later. It'll be awfully humiliating if that were to really happen, don't you think? So I suggest you come clean with us while you still have the chance.

"Don't worry. This is just chump change to me. Besides, money is nothing but a number to me," Severin assured with a smile, thinking Rico and the others were nothing but foolish troublemakers.

As soon as they entered the restaurant, Audrey led the group to the private dining room on the second floor. Once there, the whole gang ordered a long list of the most expensive dishes and alcoholic drinks on the menu.

"Audrey, aren't you all ordering a little too much? Can we even finish it? You should ease up on the red wine too. It'll be a waste if we can't finish all the bottles." said Chelsea.

It was obvious she was worried Severin would be humillated once everyone found out he did not have the money to pay for the bill. Added to her worry was the fact that she did not know Severin's bank account number so there was no way for her to secretly wire him some money.

"Don't worry, Chelsea. We can ask the restaurant to pack up the leftovers for us to take away if we really can't finish them. As for the wine, the restaurant can keep them for us and we can come back another time to finish them," said Audrey with a smile.

She then handed the menu to the waiter before leaning back on her chair and said condescendingly to Severin, "I did a rough calculation on the wines we ordered just now and they came up to a total of around two-hundred-and-eighty-five-thousand dollars. I'm telling you now so you won't be shocked later." Severin smiled. "Why thank you. But is that really the best you can do? I was prepared to shell out more than a million dollars!"