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.

deepened as he

me of taking advantage of my wife. Did I wrong you in a past

he implying? Millie shot a glare at Marcus, a heavy

from a previous life,

gazes met and lingered, creating a strange tension in

served drinks to customers, if

of guilt at

will be discreet.

of utensils in

triggered by Bruce’s comments, Millie nodded in compliance.

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