"Wait, I should call Rika too. She hasn't eaten anything," Hazel said, reaching for her phone.
Before she could even unlock the screen, Dominique swiftly snatched it from her hand and slipped it into his trouser pocket.
Hazel turned towards him, her eyebrows lifting.
"Dominique."
He gave her an innocent smile, as though he had done absolutely nothing wrong.
"No, no, Hazel. Just the two of us, please!"
He brought his hands together in front of his chest, looking at her with an almost pleading expression. "I want to spend some time with you. Just you. Is that too much to ask?"
Hazel looked at him for a moment before glancing towards the studio.
"But Rika came here with me."
"And Kyle came here with me. See? We're both equally responsible for abandoning our assistants for lunch." He nodded as though he had just presented a perfectly reasonable argument. "Kyle can take Rika somewhere to eat. He'll look after her, don't worry. She won't starve in the next hour."
