[A present for him? I think you’d be the perfect present.]
‘What the f*ck!’ Iris felt uncomfortable the moment she saw his reply. ‘Good heavens! Why would Solomon say such things? It sounds so shameless!’
Iris decided to ignore him and refused to even reply to his text.
[Iris, why are you thinking of giving Quentin a present out of the blue?] Solomon texted her again when he did not receive any reply from Iris.
Iris had wanted to continue ignoring Solomon but she replied anyway.
[It’s nothing. I just thought that we don’t have any keepsakes between us even though we’ve been together for some time now. So… I thought I’d buy him a gift.]
A keepsake? Solomon felt a sense of relief when he saw her answer.
He was reminded that his best friend’s birthday was coming up when Iris talked about getting a present for Quentin. He thought that Iris was planning to celebrate Quentin’s birthday. Her answer came as a relief to him.
Iris had given him such a smooth answer that it did not occur