"Sorry, I need to use the restroom."
As everyone finished dessert and the conversation drew to a close, Klein, seated beside Angel, stood up while holding the hem of his formal coat. After greeting a nearby waiter, he pushed open the door and left the private room.
He was heading toward the restaurant's front desk. Was the restroom just an excuse, and was he actually going to pay the bill...?
Watching Klein hurry away, Angel speculated.
Retracting her gaze, she picked up her spoon, scooped up the last bit of creamy mushroom soup before her, and brought it to her mouth.
The warmth of the hot soup traveled down her throat to her stomach, slightly easing the cramps in her lower abdomen.
Even counting the several decades of her previous life, along with Cole Granger's memories of more than twenty years, she had never imagined that she would one day get her period—or even suffer from menstrual cramps!
Fortunately, Cole's memories contained a little experience of caring for his younger sister, Lily Granger. Combined with the knowledge she had encountered in her previous life in the internet age, she had somehow muddled through the past two days safely, despite being flustered and overwhelmed.
But for such delicious food as ice cream, she could only tearfully refuse it for now.
It was not because she had any particular taboos, but because that was the conclusion she had reached from these past few days of experience.
Looking at the Strawberry Jam Ice Cream before Melissa across the table, Angel could only swallow her mushroom-flavored saliva and force herself to look away.
Perhaps sensing the resentful gaze fixed upon her, Melissa looked up as well. Then she smiled mischievously and tugged at Benson beside her.
"We are also, um, heading to the washroom