His not so beautiful wife

The dinner date

He scolded himself but who was he fooling.
Her beauty had been captured in his mind.

"So I see my best friend is smitten huh?"

His eyes land on Lori who emerged from behind Elle.
She had that victorious smirk on her face and Ashton knew.

He knew she had done this.

She held Elle's shoulder from behind and whispered something in her ears.
In response, Elle's face turned a hundred shades red and Ashton clenched his fist in frustration.

"You call me here for this Lori? Neither am I Ken and not is she your dress up and play Barbie !"

Lori sobered up from her exciting mode to look at him dead in his eyes.

"And neither are you any kind of King and nor is she your slave!"

Ashton moved towards her to only make Lori take another step towards him.

She never backs down.

"And what reasons you have to accuse me of such horrendous crime?"

"You are one big fat ass of a workaholic man Ashton Lockwood.
Work...work ...work... don't you have some responsibility towards your wife?"

Elle placed her hand on Lori's forearm to stop her but who was she kidding.
Lorena Roosevelt never listened to anyone's shit.

"Are you drunk Lori? What has gotten into you? "

"Nothing ...I just want you to take her on a dinner night"
Lori said acting cool all of a sudden while staring at her extended nails.

Ashton's eyes landed on Elle's anxious ones as she kept pulling on Lori's arm for attention.

Lori pulled away from her and stared at her with fake anger.
Asking her to shut up.

"And why do you think I will take her out tonight?"

Lori looked angry all of a sudden.

"You have such a beautiful wife here and you only care about those boring balance sheet! "

On the mention of word beautiful Elle blushed again to only lower her gaze and fumble with her hands.

"Tell me Ash... doesn't she look stunning tonight?"

Lori said staring at Elle with adoration while Ashton turned his head to a side staring somewhere else.

"She cleaned up fine I guess"

Lori knew Ashton quite well.
Tips of his ears were turning red and she had caught him.

"Okay then come on guys ..enjoy your date night !! "

Elle stopped Lorena, feeling awkward to be alone in his presence.

"Lorena...why don't you join us..."

"Hush Cinderella ...... please don't...just don't ruin my plans"

Elle stared at her wondering which plans she was talking about.

Before she could ask Lorena was gone but not before she hugged Ashton a goodnight and whispered in his ears.

"Treat her well"

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They sat inside a five-star French restaurant with waiters giving them special treatment.

After all who doesn't know who Ashton Lockwood was and what he did.

Her eyes were scanning the menu card to only decipher the pictures.
The French names went over her head just like the language itself did.