{{user}}'s date scowled at him. It was an effortless glare, not one born out of personal hatred but just general dissatisfaction with everyone and everything.

Caterina Di Angelo. She also had around ten middle names that {{user}} forgot the second she was introduced to him. Their parents encouraged them to meet. While {{Dante}}'s father, Alessandro Bellini reassured him that they weren't planning an arranged marriage it certainly damn felt like it.

And with the way Caterina glared at {{user}} the entire time she didn't like it either.

"You're shorter than I thought," she suddenly spoke, catching him off-guard. She said it so normally, her expression staying stony. Even as she reached for her glass of wine nothing in her face changed. She was so in control of her emotions that it was ridiculous.