The Undisclosed Union

Part 18

"What happened to you?" Blake asked.

"Tori, she is with her friends."

"Hey, you're jealous again that there are men with her?" Blake asked him after looking around to where his wife was seated. She is on the far end of the room, in a round table for six.

"Of course not, I was just surprised as she told me they were only going to be in the mall." He tried to explain, but the truth is he is boiling with anger. He felt betrayed at that moment.

A lot of questions now are formed on his head. Like, is she dating that guy beside her? Where did they meet, or are her friends always doing this every time they went out?

"So you can be appeased, let us go to their table and say hi."

"What for do we have to do that?" he asked.

"So, your wife can sit with us, and you will not scowl like an angry lion ready to punch on his prey."

"I don't need to go there; she knows the consequences of her action." While sitting down in their table, he told Blake, took the menu, and checked on the food he wanted.

But thoughts of Tori being close to other men made him lost appetite enough that all the dishes available are not tempting. In the end, it was Blake who ordered the food for him upon hearing him asking for a bottle of wine.

His eyes never left the table where Tori sat.

As if she felt his stare, Katelyn looked around, and then her eyes met Jared's. To see him looking at her like his eyes have arrows ready to pierce her made, Katelyn realized that he had misunderstood her being there with men. Suddenly it hit on her what it means; she has to pay the consequences of her action.

She gets up on the table, not caring what her friends will say, only the thoughts of explaining to Jared matters, but Charlize's arrival with her friend stopped her.

"Katelyn, where are you going?" Tess asked her.

"Oh, I am so sorry, but I think I have an urgent need to go to the loo," she excused herself, and hurriedly went to the toilet direction.

Once inside, all she did was to walk to and fro while thinking. She then realized that the best thing for her to do is to be honest. Besides, she didn't know that Nicole's boyfriend will be with his male friends or that it is the day that Nicole had chosen to play matchmaker.

She washed her hands simultaneously and checked on her face before going out of the toilet.

To her surprise, Blake was outside of the hallway leading to the dining area, fidgeting. Upon seeing her walking to his direction, he walked to her to stand face-to-face in the hallway.

"Tori, you did not listen to what I told you before. Now, your husband is fuming with anger."

"But I was just eating dinner with my friend's boyfriend and his friends." She reasoned, but Blake's expression of disbelief as if her answer was enough to appease Jared made her remember that he had seen her before eating with David and Michael on a disguise.

She realized that like Jared, Blake also thinks that she is on a date with David.

"Do you want me to explain to him while Charlize is there?" She decided to ask, letting him know that she is aware of what is going on with Jared and the woman in their table.

Her question made Blake stopped from saying anything.

His silence made Katelyn realize that Blake had just remembered that Charlize has no idea about her, and he too doesn't want to be the cause that Jared's secret marriage will come out from him.