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.”

card for the fifth floor of Alioth Building cost 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 cost. He

smile, he coaxed, “Hey, I

already here, let’s get something

she reluctantly followed the two men inside. Nothing would be gained by continuing to resist, so she decided maybe she

a waiter had already carried a pot of soup stock inside the booth,

sat next to Carlos, and Curtis was on his

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 since she was

and Carlos were going to eat with her, she didn’t stop the waiters

some ingredients and threw them in. Debbie didn’t see everything he used, but there was definitely some goat and daikon. When

and Life was good. At least for

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

two eating?” she