100: Chapter 101: Is Joanna Lawrence Being Made a Scapegoat?

100: Chapter 101: Is Joanna Lawrence Being Made a Scapegoat?

Joanna Lawrence took a look at the menu and was also shocked.

The dishes in this Luxe Lounge were much pricier than the ones Ashton Heath took her to for lunch.

No wonder Aria Rowlett was frightened.

She was scared too, okay?

A single vegetarian dish cost over a thousand dollars?

Did the vegetables here grow with daily mineral water irrigation, listening to music, and basking in the fragrance of perfume?

Would eating it make you fairer, slimmer, and prettier?

If not, then why so expensive?

Gretchen Skerit glanced at the two of them, the corners of her mouth curling into a smile as she said, “The consumption here is indeed too high.

Joanna, why don’t we change to another restaurant?”

“We are already here; why bother switching?” Although Joanna found the place expensive, there was no way she would change the venue at this point.

After all, she still had the prestige card that Ashton had given her.

Every month, it allowed her an overdraft of one million dollars.

No matter how expensive or high-end the consumption here, it wouldn’t amount to several million dollars for a single meal.

Thinking of this, Joanna picked up the menu again and handed it to Gretchen, “Don’t worry, he said before we came to order whatever we want.

Don’t mind the price, just order whatever you want; I have the money to pay.”

As she spoke, she pulled the prestige card out of her bag.

When she took out the card, which symbolized status, Gretchen, and Lillian White stared directly at it, their expressions inevitably changing.

After a few seconds of silence, Lillian jokingly said, “Joanna, did your boyfriend give you this card?

Is there a lot of money in it?

When he gave you the card, did he tell you to buy whatever you wanted?”

“Yes.” Joanna thought of Ashton’s words at the time and nodded, “That’s what he said.”

Lillian’s face changed again.

She bit her lip, feeling uncomfortable in her heart, as if Joanna was showing off.

“Oh, really?” She bit her lip, turned her head to look at Gretchen, and winked at her, “In that case, we won’t be polite.

Gretchen, let’s order.”

*

A moment later.

When the waitress brought one dish after another to the table, even Aria, who was good at enlivening the atmosphere, could hardly keep her smile going.

There were only four of them.

But Gretchen and Lillian had ordered ten dishes.

And only one of them was a vegetarian dish.

The rest were all seafood or other big dishes.

Aria had seen the price of one dish earlier, and it cost over fifty thousand dollars.

Joanna looked at the full table of dishes and was surprised.

She turned her head to look at Lillian and Gretchen and realized that today, these two seemed a bit off.

She wasn’t stingy either.

She wasn’t reluctant to pay for this meal.

But Gretchen and Lillian’s actions entirely deviated from the norm.

Knowing the four girls had small appetites, they still ordered over ten dishes.

Moreover, apart from the vegetarian dish, the prices of the others began from ten thousand dollars up.

Even if Joanna were slow-witted at this point, she could still detect something amiss.

“Lillian, Gretchen, did we order too many dishes?” Aria took a deep breath, pointing at the dishes on the table, “There are only four of us, and there’s no way we can finish all of this.

These dishes are so expensive, it would be a waste if we can’t finish them, right?”

Were they treating Joanna as a cash cow?

She had never realized they were such terrible people before.

Gretchen still had that lukewarm look, “I thought the portions at such an expensive place would be small, so I ordered this much.

But looking at it now, it does look a bit too much.

What should we do?

Can we return the excess?”