Aire was dumbfounded. “...Mr Ford, what did you say?”

She could not believe her own ears. Sebastian had asked her to be a hostess. She had never encountered that kind of humiliation before.

“Be a hostess!” Sebastian said again, eerily calm.

Aire immediately answered coldly and arrogantly, “Mr Ford! Don’t you have a hostess next to you? I’m not a hostess! I won’t act as one either!”

Sebastian’s tone was still calm. “Then, why are you here today?”

Aire started to say, “I came here with Mr Sm