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.

everything we were doing. It was as if she wanted us to rely on her, and that was not

wanting to be a shoulder for me to cry on, but sharing everything with her was something only Maura could do.

I said, not disclosing anything to her. She stopped kneading and raised her face to stare at the wall ahead as she gave it a

take care of everything alone,’ she warned me while I took

time. I haven't even walked away from the café when I watched somebody standing

way he was standing there when his mother told me he doesn't even walk past the tall

and now this. Instead of ignoring it, I

was loud and

you come back so soon?" She taunted but was

say her son's name, her body shuddered, and the smile from her

My Markus?" She couldn't even

confirmed, grabbing her hand to drag her out with me. She has told me he cannot be

try to get out of my grasp and followed me like crazy. The moment he was outside the café, I realized I should have kept an eye on

and then at me. She seemed to be

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

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

you are not thinking that I —’ I sighed when she nodded, making me understand that

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

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