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

me of taking advantage of my wife. Did I wrong you

glare at Marcus, a heavy

a debt from a previous life, marrying him by mistake, and

lingered, creating

“Millie, do you plan on continuing your work here? You must 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 accused of abusing his wife. Even the wages

pang of guilt at

be discreet. I won’t

set of utensils in front of Millie

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