She changed into the dress her father had bought for her, rummaged through her luggage, and barely managed to find a set of jewelry she had casually stuffed in at her father's insistence before departure. Finally, she urgently called her cousin to ask how to do her makeup.
Thank goodness there was still a cosmetics shop on the cruise ship.
In short, she used every method available to her.
Lina had worked a miracle!
When the party began, the formally dressed girl practically glowed.
And successfully attracted every baboon in the room!
Andre, standing behind her as her father, nearly couldn't stop himself from wiping away tears at the sight.
His daughter had grown up!
But at the same time, he felt an urge to rush-order a hunting rifle online.
Let's see which suicidal little bastard dares to hit on my precious girl!
That mixture of anticipation and unease was truly beyond words.
Fortunately, throughout the entire evening, his daughter seemed to be looking around and wandering everywhere. She did not respond to anyone's invitation at all.
She even could not be bothered to glance at the buffet she normally focused on so intently...
It was not until the party ended that she returned to her room in low spirits without saying a word, leaving him, her father, completely unable to figure out what had happened.
"What else could have happened?" His sister's voice on the phone erupted into goose-like laughter. "Lina's grown up and taken a fancy to a man! You idiot!"
A man?!
What man!
Half an hour after Andre hung up, he used the rush-order function for Hunting Rifles online for the sixteenth time!
He wished he could have them deliver his deluxe gold-plated double-barreled hunting rifle, along with sixteen elephant-hunting rounds, directly into his hands that