As the manager approached the exit, he closed the door behind him with consideration. Millie, on the verge of desperation, longed to escape the room as quickly as possible.

“Wait, manager.”

But the manager, not wanting to be involved in her predicament, left swiftly.

Millie squirmed in her seat. Despite her failure to escape, she attempted to distance herself from Marcus.

She raised her gaze, only to be met with the bright overhead lights. She was dazed and sighed. Their thoughts were complicated.

The memory of her sharing a drink with Marcus resurfaced. She realized that they had sipped from the same glass.

frown deepened as he

of my wife. Did I wrong you in

at Marcus, a

for a debt from a previous life, marrying him by mistake, and enduring his

gazes met and lingered, creating

preserve my cousin’s reputation. This place caters to a high-end clientele. If you served drinks to customers, if reported in the media, he would be

pang of guilt

be discreet. I won’t

set of utensils in front of Millie

guilt triggered by Bruce’s comments, Millie

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