Chapter 133: Nice To Meet You
The living room was empty too. She poured a glass of water and saw his cell phone on the table, wondering where he had gone.
When she was putting the glass down, the phone on the table suddenly vibrated, and Cathryn almost dropped the glass to the sound. She took a deep breath and picked up the phone.
Keith had told her earlier that if his cell phone was ringing when he was not around, she could pick it up at any time.
The screen showed a foreign number, Cathryn hesitated and answered it.
A cheerful girl's voice came from the other end of the phone. She was speaking very fast, and Cathryn soon realized that she was speaking German.
"Hello? Can you speak English, please? Keith is not here now."
The girl was silent for a while before she suddenly started again, the voice as refreshing as ever.
"Hello! My name is Sofia Clarkson, Keith's cousin. Are you Miss Cathryn Riley? ...Nice to meet you, we are in-laws now! Oh yes, I'm wondering when you are going back to Germany, and can I be a bridesmaid?"
She rattled off excitedly, and Cathryn made a silent groan and blushed her face when she caught her saying, "in-laws." She finally caught a moment and explained, "Well, not so soon."
Sophie exclaimed and quickly turned to a giggle and replied, "No way! Come on, he hasn't proposed, you mean?"
Cathryn made an awkward "Ugh..." and the girl went on screaming and babbling in German from the other end, leaving Cathryn a head full of question marks.
Suddenly Keith appeared from the stairs and made a long, relieved sigh. She quickly handed the phone to Keith, saying: "It's your cousin Sophie."
He took the phone and naturally reached out to grab Cathryn's shoulders and started chatting quickly with his family.
It was pleasant to listen to Keith talking to his family in his mother language, although Cathryn had no idea what he was saying.
He finally said "Tschüss" and hung up the phone.
"My grandfather is not feeling well. My parents have to cancel their plan this week." Keith explained briefly.
"Is it serious?" Cathryn asked with an alert.
"Well, if there is a big problem, Sophie wouldn't be so lively." Keith rested her assuredly.
Hearing that his parents were not coming to Flower Island this week. Cathryn made a long, relieved sigh. Seeing that, Keith faintly smiled and suggested, "Let's go to have dinner."
"We are not eating at home?" Cathryn thought they were going out to eat, and Keith let her go to the bedroom to change.
She put on a pretty dress, and Keith took her down the stairs. Cathryn couldn't see where her feet went, and every step was led by him. She felt the stairway was so long that she was willing to walk with him for a century.
Out of the villa, their driver Jack was standing outside the car. He saw them coming and went back to open the doors. Keith helped Cathryn to go in the car before he did. The car slowly moved towards the direction of the island.
"We are not going out?" Cathryn asked. Keith simply laughed but didn't answer, just holding her hand.
She didn't know if she had an illusion.
She felt that his hand was shaking in hers as if he was getting nervous.
The car made turns after turns and was getting closer to the coast. As they were reaching the beach, Cathryn saw a well-built villa standing against the cliff, with the shape and color of the cliff wall and the coast.
She never knew that there was a villa here. Why did Keith bring her here? Cathryn couldn't figure it out. Looking back at Keith, who smiled softly back at her and took her into the villa.
The inside of the villa reminds her of Antonio Gaudi's architecture, which, apparently, represented the personal taste of the owner.
Although the style was bold, the interior design everywhere was modern and technical-inspiring. Cathryn felt eye-opening as she could listen to the sea and the waves coming from the indulgent gaps on the walls.
It was brightly lit, too. Cathryn was looking up, and before she could see every detail of the ceiling, Keith had already taken her to the elevator.
Instead of going to the second floor, though, Keith pressed the down button. Feeling the gravity, Cathryn was even more confused until the elevator door opened again. Behind the facing glass wall, there were colorful rocky reefs naturally distributed; under the reef was clean and soft sand, and in the clusters of coral trees were schools of fish swimming in various ways.
This underground floor of the villa was huge in size. It was divided into five rooms, each of which was linked by a cylindrical glass corridor. The rooms had different facilities, and each served a different purpose. There was at least a study room, a lounge, and a dining hall.
Above was the bottom of the villa, the other three sides were made of large glass walls connected to the glass corridors. They could see all kinds of fish swimming freely in the dark blue sea water reflecting the last golden sunshine of the day.
Cathryn was 100% sure that they were now under the sea.
So Keith had actually built a 'reverse aquarium' restaurant on his own island!
Of course, that was very Keith.
While Cathryn's jaw was still wide open, Keith was slyly pointing at the schools out of the glass, "Since you like seafood, you can order anyone you like."
Cathryn Riley: "..."
They went to the dining room.
The decor of the dining room was a perfect match with the underwater scenery, with warm tones and natural features like the reefs and sea corals on the seafloor.
Very close to the glass window, there was an irregular dining table with a leather wooden chair on each side. The dining table was big enough to take all the courses tonight.
On the right side of the dining table, there is a small high platform with several musicians ready, a quintet with violins, cello, piano, and flute. The band was wearing dark suits and playing jazz music meticulously.