{"id":1914,"date":"2026-09-23T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2026-09-20T17:57:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:57:02","slug":"chapter-31-the-dandy-highwayman-cafe279","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/23\/chapter-31-the-dandy-highwayman-cafe279\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 31 The Dandy Highwayman Cafe279"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/22\/chapter-31-the-dandy-highwayman-cafe278\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page279 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/24\/chapter-32-on-the-wolf-wavelength281\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>two of you would be here. Will you two need one room tonight, or two?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The strategy and the question were planned in advance, and beautifully executed by Burgess in a careful and completely casual manner. NutJob hadn\u2019t even thought about it, just assuming that there would be two rooms. But now that he\u2019s been asked, he starts thinking quickly and quietly to himself \u201cwow, that\u2019s a good question! Do I really have a choice? When is the right answer going to be one? Not now, that\u2019s for sure!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an equally casual voice, NutJob calmly says, \u201ctwo, definitely two.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood answer!\u201d says Burgess, grateful that CandiCrush predicted that correctly! A delicate matter has been resolved exactly when, where and how they had wanted.<\/p>\n<p>In a fatherly tone, yet still calm, warm and friendly, Burgess adds, \u201cone day NutJob, maybe sooner, maybe later, the answer might be one. But it\u2019s her choice, not yours. You wait. It doesn\u2019t matter how long you wait, you just wait. She\u2019ll be happy to give you the hint. It might never happen I simply don\u2019t know. Right now Kristal probably doesn\u2019t know either. But when she does know, she\u2019ll let you know. Be patient!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd don\u2019t tell her that we had this conversation!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the ladies\u2019 room EarlyBird explains exactly what Burgess is doing. KristalClear is crystal clear on everybody\u2019s good intentions. She doesn\u2019t doubt for a moment that CandiCrush is behind it.<\/p>\n<p>Before the trip, KristalClear had been thinking deep down that one day this subject is going to come up anyway. Perhaps there could have been a better way for her to handle it herself? Or perhaps this helping hand was best? In any case, it\u2019s sorted now. Not only that, she has both sides of the story, and NutJob doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is why ladies always go to the toilet in twos,\u201d says EarlyBird, \u201cand don\u2019t tell him that we had this conversation!\u201d<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/22\/chapter-31-the-dandy-highwayman-cafe278\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page279 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/24\/chapter-32-on-the-wolf-wavelength281\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page279 \u2013 Next two of you would be here. Will you two need one room tonight, or two?\u201d The strategy and the question were planned in advance, and beautifully executed by Burgess in a careful and completely casual manner. NutJob hadn\u2019t even thought about it, just assuming that there would be two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/23\/chapter-31-the-dandy-highwayman-cafe279\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 31 The Dandy Highwayman Cafe279&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1915,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions\/1915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}