Burning Passion: Love Never Die

But Carlos stopped her.

“Don’t avoid him. He did nothing wrong.”

Seeing that Debbie wanted to leave, Curtis smiled with resignation.

“Debbie, it’s just a dinner. Come on.”

Debbie took a deep breath, but her mind was made up.

“I’m not hungry anymore,” she said stubbornly to her husband, refusing to look at or talk to Curtis.

Carlos turned around and explained to her, “This is Colleen’s restaurant. And it’s expensive, to boot. Let’s just eat and let Curtis pay the bill? We can rip him off. It’ll be fun.”

a million each. Carlos had given Debbie and each of her closest friends a card like that without blinking. Of course, right now, he wasn’t complaining about the

he coaxed, “Hey, I get it. But you’re

here, let’s get something to

followed the two men inside. Nothing

a pot of soup stock inside the booth, and put

their seats. Debbie sat next to Carlos, and Curtis was

sliced Lamb and goat, beef, egg noodles, bok choy, crown daisy and winter melon, spinach, lettuce, carrots, taro, daikon, and watercress. Not to mention various condiments like soy sauce, garlic, white pepper and XO sauce. The ingredients here were much more exquisite than those she had eaten at other hot pot restaurants she’d tried. This place looked like it catered to an upscale clientele. Which was appropriate

didn’t stop the waiters from bringing in dish after

there was definitely some goat and daikon. When the food was ready, Carlos fished it out of the pot with his chopsticks, putting it on Debbie’s

and Life was good.

at the two men she ate with and noticed they hadn’t touched

you two