Dane pulled her plate over. "Do you mind if I finish this?"
Claire stiffened. "I already ate from that."
She felt the need to remind him.
There was no way this billionaire heir was actually this frugal, right?
"It's fine. If I get a new portion, I won't be able to finish it." Dane didn't mind at all, polishing off the rest in a few bites.
Claire's face flushed. She could only count her blessings that she always ate from the side closest to her and never touched the other half.
So even though half the plate was gone, it was still perfectly clean.
Still, the level of intimacy was a bit much for her to process.
Dane looked completely unfazed. He ordered the takeout and drove Claire straight to the hospital.
Claire had fully composed herself by the time they arrived.
Seeing Karla on the phone, she held back and didn't interrupt.
Instead, Claire waved Sienna's assistant, Trixie, over for breakfast.
The young woman looked a bit bashful.
She knew Claire was Karla's niece.
It was normal for Claire to bring food for Karla, but she didn't have to do the same for her.
"I could have just eaten at the hospital cafeteria. I'm sorry for being a bother."
Karla's relatives were seriously gorgeous, looking better than half the celebrities in the entertainment industry.
Trixie couldn't help but quietly ship them.
"It's nothing, we just grabbed some extra. See what you want. We have crab rolls, crab linguine... if you don't like seafood, there's also..."
Claire noticed that Dane had packed quite a feast.
Trixie's eyes lit up. She loved crab linguine.
But the stuff was ridiculously expensive.
A single plate outside easily cost over twenty dollars, and on an assistant's meager salary, she could rarely justify the splurge.
She was usually just happy to get a taste whenever Sienna treated the staff.
But wait, if there was only one portion, Karla wouldn't get any if she ate it.
Claire seemed to read her mind and handed her a container of the pasta. "We got two of everything. Try it, it's not a huge portion."
"That way, you can try a bit of everything."
Claire handed her the crab linguine and let her pick out whatever else she wanted.
Trixie was actually starving. Last
night, she had been so worried about Sienna that she completely lost her appetite and forgot about Being hungry altogether.
By morning, her stomach had growled more times than she could count.
But seeing Karla constantly working, she didn't have the nerve to bring it up.
Just as she was about to offer to go buy food, Karla had already taken Claire's call.
Karla told her food was on the way, so the young assistant had been patiently waiting ever since.
The takeout containers looked
incredibly high-end. As soon as she opened the crab linguine Trixie had to swallow hard. It smelled absolutely heavenly.
Just as Trixie began to wolf down the food, Karla finished her call.
Seeing Dane tag along with her niece again, she didn't make a big deal out of it.
Claire quickly helped lay out the breakfast for Karla to choose from.
Karla was famished too and dug in without a care for appearances.
She was completely exhausted today.
All she wanted to do after eating was sleep. Claire managed to find an empty
hospital bed for her to rest in.
Trixie settled onto a foldable cot next to it.
The two of them were finally able to lie down.
There was no point in Claire and Dane sticking around the hospital, so Dane asked
Claire to accompany him to check out the Westside project.
Playing the part of a couple, they specifically stopped by a mall to change their outfits.
To be exact, Dane bought a casual outfit that made him look like a typical, stylish college guy.
He bought a matching set for Claire, making them look even more like a real couple.
As they headed to the Westside,
Claire had no idea what Dane was
actually inspecting, so she just played the role of the dutiful quiet girlfriend.
She even bought plenty of snacks from the street vendors along the way.