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.”

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

“Hey, I

here, let’s get

let her leave, so she reluctantly followed the two men inside. Nothing would be gained by continuing to

in, a waiter had already carried a pot of soup stock inside the booth, and put it on the stove to heat it. A faint delicious smell filled the air when

sat next to Carlos, and Curtis

they could finish making the hot pot. There was thinly 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

she didn’t stop the waiters from bringing in dish after dish. There was

boiling, Curtis picked up some ingredients and threw them in. Debbie didn’t see everything he used, but 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

ate without complaint and Life

the two men she ate

you two eating?” she asked