Even after fifteen minutes of waiting, there was no lowering in the decibel level . She got up from the bed in a huff and slipped a jacket over her night pyjamas . Stepping out of her room, she was taken aback at the tableau . A woman was ready to nearly throttle the daylight of a man, while the hotel staff looked on in frozen horror .
"Stop this nonsense right now . Even if you have no qualms about your privacy, try and respect that of others," she raised her voice authoritatively .
The woman looked at her curiously before giving a mirthless laugh, "if the noise is bothering you so much, stuff some cotton in your ears and go to bed, princess . This man is going to die at my hands tonight . "
A look of recognition dawned on Mei Zhen's face, "aren't you the couple from the afternoon who couldn't get enough of each other sitting in the coffee shop? And this is a honeymoon suite, if I am not mistaken . Can I ask you then to take your lover's quarrel or whatever it is to your own room and sort it out there? Else I will have no option but to call the police . "
The woman seemed to back off a little at the mention of police and relaxed her death grip from the man's collar . He looked at Mei Zhen with gratitude dripping from his eyes .
"You have ten minutes to collect your luggage and get out of here . I will stay here till the weekend, so make sure you pay for it and leave . Also, don't even think of getting in touch with me ever again," the woman threatened that man before releasing him .
Relieved to have the issue sorted, Mei Zhen made a move towards her own door . Before she could shut it, the woman followed her and came inside Mei Zhen's room .
"You don't expect me to stand out there in these clothes while waiting for him to finish packing, do you," she said, referring out to her revealing nightdress .
Mei Zhen wanted to point out the fact that she had been making a scene for the past half hour clad in precisely these clothes standing in the hotel's corridor but she let it pass .
Unscrewing the cap, she handed over a bottle of water to the woman .
"Thanks, my throat is raw from all that shouting . Are all men born b****** or do they train for it?" she asked, almost to herself .
"Imagine that I had felt sorry for him when I first met him . He with his sob story about his bitchy ex-wife . Since I was trying to get away from a bad break-up myself, I thought it would be fun to hook-up for a while . And the sex seemed promising, at least he knew what he was doing in bed, unlike my previous lover, whose idea of foreplay was a one second kiss . Then wham, bam and over," Mei Zhen tried to politely interrupt her by saying she didn't want to know any further details .
Not that the woman was listening .
"I met him last month in a bar . We bonded over bitching about our ex-lovers . Apparently, he couldn't seem to move on in life because of his wife . He had been married for five years but the woman had been madly in love with her childhood sweetheart all through those years . She was never there for him, blah blah…he had gone on and on . I should have known then only that something was wrong . Out of the two hundred words that he uttered that night, half of them would have been - Jia Li this, Jia Li that," she narrated .
Mei Zhen, who had barely been paying attention to the grating monologue till now, came alive and alert suddenly . The woman didn't pay any attention to her changed demeanour though . She seemed to be in love with her own voice .
She continued ranting, "anyways, I felt sorry for him . And things were progressing smoothly till this afternoon, like you saw, right . In fact, somewhere I had started to dream about a future with him . But after tonight, I am never going to allow that psychopath anywhere near me . "
She shuddered recalling whatever had happened . Mei Zhen waited impatiently for the woman to continue but she seemed to have exhausted her supply of words .
"What happened tonight," Mei Zhen prodded her .
"Huh! Oh you mean what happened between him and me…well, let's see . We began by polishing off a couple of bottles of wine . One good thing about him is that he isn't stingy, when it comes to the good things in life . And why not, with a cushy job with a top MNC, he can afford to be generous," she cackled .
Chapter end
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