202-Everybody Moved On

Beatrice's POV:

Zane and Maddox left instead of ordering anything. I wasn't too surprised because I knew Maddox had only come here to vent his feelings to me.

"Where is Maura?" Pamela walked into the kitchen with empty plates in her hands and asked for Maura.

"I don’t know. When I walked out of the restroom, I found her gone,’ I told Pamela, watching her look around for Maura.

"She never leaves like this," Pamela said, concerned, as I shrugged.

"Maybe she went to her house to get something?" I suggested, and Pamela reluctantly nodded. There was not much we could do about it.

"Ah!" Pamela let out a sigh of relief when checking her phone. "She had left me a message," she informed.

"What did she say?" I asked Pamela, who didn't show me the message but looked extremely pleased about something. I knew there were some things they wouldn’t share with me, and since I was too new, I didn’t force them or try to make them uncomfortable by eavesdropping on their conversations.

"She indeed went back to her home to get something.’ Pamela forced a smile on her lips and immediately broke eye contact with him. I knew at that moment that she didn't want to share it with me.

"If you don’t mind, can I also take some time off?" I turned to her and asked her with high hopes. I needed to call Akin and ask him about Helel's body.

realized she wanted to know everything we were doing. It was as if

to be a shoulder for me to cry on, but sharing everything with her was something only Maura could do. I believed in keeping my secrets to

raised her face to stare at the wall ahead as she gave it a thought and

take care of everything alone,’ she warned me while I took my apron off in

waste my time. I haven't even walked away from the café when

is he doing out there?" I frowned at the way he was standing there when his mother told me he doesn't even walk past the

other day and now this. Instead of ignoring it, I walked briskly into the kitchen

My voice was loud

you come back so soon?" She taunted but was obviously

The moment she heard me say her son's name, her

She couldn't even believe

her out with me. She has told me he cannot be outside. Then why the heck was he walking around

crazy. The moment he was outside the

she asked, looking around and then at me. She seemed

feeling like a fool for believing he would stand here and wait

her arms over her chest and raised her brow, biting the inside

thinking that I —’ I sighed when she nodded, making me understand that she was suggesting that

out of it?" It was frustrating that she wasn’t even saying anything and was

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